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DONNA DINOVELLI |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Abrams Artists Agency |
As a bookwriter and lyricist, Donna DiNovelli has collaborated with artists from around the world in both opera and music-theater. As a playwright she has fashioned texts for stage and radio. She is currently collaborating with composer Rachel Portman and playwright Beth Henley on PRAIRIE, presented at New York Stage and Film, July 2006. PRAIRIE will be directed by Francesca Zambello, with whom she collaborated on HILDEGARD: A MEASURE OF JOY commissioned by the San Francisco Grammy-award winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer. Her opera, FLORIDA (music by Randall Eng), selected for the New York City Opera's VOX series, won a Frederick Loewe Foundation grant, was presented at the Public Theater's New Work Now! Festival and was produced in July at Lyric Opera Cleveland. She wrote the text for the Los Angeles Modern Dance and Ballet's dance-theater work, TWELVE DANCING PRINCESSES, which premiered in the Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles choreographed by Naomi Goldberg-Haas. DiNovelli's other music-theater work has been presented at Joe's Pub: including NO GOD BUT YEARNING (music by David Rodwin), and a collection of ten-minute musicals: BREAK AS MANY EGGS AS REQUIRED, PROM and SANTA LUCIA. She began a series of new work when she was invited to attend the National Musical Theater Conference at the O'Neill Theater Center. Her stage play, THE FIRST EFF (Mark Taper Forum), was excerpted in the latest New Monologues For Women; by Women , published by Heinemann Press. She has won commissions and fellowships from Bellagio (The Rockefeller Foundation), MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Mabou Mines, Manhattan Theater Club, ASCAP, and the BBC. The BBC, CBC and NPR have broadcast her radio plays. She teaches bookwriting and playwriting at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Musical Theater Writing Program, where she earned an MFA as an Ira Gershwin fellow. She teaches playwriting at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and was a visiting professor at Brown University, where she earned an A.M. studying with Paula Vogel.
Plays by Donna DiNovelli
12 Dancing Princesses | ||
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Genre: | Part dance, part theater | |||||
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Notes: | Created by company artistic director Naomi Goldberg and Mark Taper Forum associate artistic director Corey Madden with Playwright Donna DiNovelli adapting the story and text from the Brothers Grimm tale of the same name. | |||||
Synopsis: | Princesses captivated from beginning to end in this 90 minute retelling of female royalty | |||||
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Crushed Tomatoes | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #72249 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
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Synopsis: | A young teenage girl vies for the title, "Most Like the Virgin Mary", as the Cold War heats up and a saucepot simmers with a secret. A coming-of-age play with the voices of the saints and the Everly Brothers as dance score | |||||
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First Eff, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #72250 | |||
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Synopsis: | A collection of dream narratives too real to be unreal; and archetypal tea scenes of domestic riffs. For video and an ensemble of women who wear their black cardigan sweaters buttoned up the backand anything else they want. | |||||
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Florida | ||
| 1st Produced: | Lyric Opera, Cleveland | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72251 | |||
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Genre: | Opera | |||||
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Notes: | music by Randall Eng, text by Donna DiNovelli | |||||
Synopsis: | A highly-stylized work, FLORIDA investigates the community response to the murder of Florida's mother. The idiosyncratic script and score takes us from the time preceding the murder to the subsequent courtroom rituals. Throughout the piece, the ordinary life of the eponymous heroine, and the extraordinary events that surround her are at play, along with the vowels that create her, constrain her and potentially free her. | |||||
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Hildegard: A Measure Of Joy | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #72252 | |||
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Genre: | music theatre piece | |||||
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Notes: | Commissioned for Chanticleer, Text by Donna DiNovelli, New music by Regis Campo and Steven Stucky | |||||
Synopsis: | Twelve Cardinals meet in Rome to decide whether Hildegard of Bingen should be canonized a saint. Moving from skeptics to believers, they take us through her life, her miracles, and finally, her defiance of Rome. The story is theirs: it is a journey of how they come to define and discover what is holy; what is blessed. The structure allows for a variety of music, sometimes medieval, sometimes contemporary, i.e., joyfully anachronistic. As Hildegard's sanctity is questioned in arenas both sacred and practical so, too, the music reflects worlds of exalted spirituality and profound simplicity | |||||
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No God But Yearning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Joe's Pub | - - - | ||||
Company: | Public Theater's New Work Now! Festival | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72253 | |||
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Notes: | Text by Donna DiNovelli, Music by David Rodwin | |||||
Synopsis: | NO GOD BUT YEARNING looks at the planting of anemones; a bar room toast; an act of eco-terrorism; the naming of a cottage; the elemental cry of an S.O.S.; and calls them all prayer. As the 5 characters transform we witness the similarities between a young teenage docent named Lucy and a powerless Saint; between Guillermo Marconi and a Sailor who names his brethren who have died at sea; between the letter s that seduces Marconi to Annie Dillard, the center of a teenage cult; between the taxi driver Hafiz and a fog horn that calls out its warning. The center of the piece is Santa Lucia where the environment of the sea comes alive to take part in a calling home | |||||
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Prairie | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #72254 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
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Notes: | music by Rachel Portman, lyrics by Donna DiNovelli, book by Beth Hanley | |||||
Synopsis: | As American as wanderlust and rebellion, PRAIRIE is the story of one family's adventures during the country's massive land give-away that was Homesteading. It is the story of how a people poor and uprooted, persevered by fighting the emptiness of their larder with a generosity of spirit. When a promise of free land lured them to the unyielding sod, homesteaders relied on their wit and their will in a battle to stay alive and stay together. Out on that endless prairie, one girl embodies the pioneer spirit by refusing to bow to the forces of conformity and despair. Eventually, the spirited Laura must sacrifice the freedom she so cherishes to protect the family she loves. | |||||
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Red | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dixon Place | - - - | ||||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #72255 | |||
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Genre: | music theatre piece One Act | |||||
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Notes: | Book and lyrics by Donna DiNovelli, music by Ada, Cohen | |||||
Synopsis: | Donna DiNovelli wields one clever, lyrical mind, this time providing libretto for a psychologically savvy, fractured fairy tale involving a wolf, grandmother's lore and the feeling that eating an omelet will get you gobbled - or confine you to a kitchen forever. | |||||
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Route Of Wolves (Myth) | ||
| 1st Produced: | BACA Downtown | - - - | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #72256 | |||
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Synopsis: | A radio play for the stage that deconstructs the folk tale. 4 characters and a foley artist. | |||||
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