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ANN MARIE SHEA |
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Nationality: Irish and USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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ANN MARIE SHEA is an actress/playwright working in the Boston area. She has recently appeared with Redfeather Theatre (Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Richard III, Tempest), Stoneham Theatre (A Prayer for Owen Meaney, And Then There Were None, It's a Wonderful Life), Boston Playwrights' Theatre (Red Elm), Devanaughn Theatre (By the Bog of Cats), Pilgrim Soul (The Loves of Cass McGuire), and has understudied at Huntington. She taught theatre for many years at Worcester State College, and played Amanda in Glass Menagerie there. She has also appeared at Theatre at the Mount, Worcester Forum Theatre, and has served as reader at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK. She has directed in the Worcester area for New England Theatre Company, Worcester Children's Theatre, Concord Players and Entr'Actors. Her one-act play, The M-Pill, was read at the 2004 Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and produced at Redfeather Theatre. The one-act play Power Lunch-Members Only, was read at Last Frontier in 2006. Her one-act play, Land's End Cafe, was read at the Curtain Theatre (Columbus, OH) in 2007. Her ten-minute play, With Improvements by the Actors, has been published in Flemish by the Dutch enterprise ANKO, in coordination with Boston University, where it was first staged in the 2004 Boston Theatre Marathon, and was staged throughout the summer of 2004 by Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University, an M.A. from the Catholic University of America, and a B.A. from Anna Maria College. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, dean of the College of Fellows of the New England Theatre Conference, and president (2009-2010) of the Shakespeare Club of Worcester.
Plays by Ann Marie Shea
Family Archive | ||
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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 | #123607 | |||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Scheduled for staging at Turtle Lane, Auburndale, MA, January 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | Cleaning out the house after the death of their mother, two sisters uncover clues to a family's shameful secret. | |||||
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Final Witness | ||
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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 | #139181 | |||
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Notes: | Final Witness will be read at Our Voices VI, an all-day event including workshops for the women playwrights and staged readings to audience, at the Fine Arts Center at Regis College in Weston, MA on March 24. | |||||
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Last Word | ||
| 1st Produced: | Read at Last Frontier Theatre Conference | 2009 | ||||
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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 | #102340 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Read at Vernon Square Yacht Club, BillBar productions, Feb. 2009. Read at Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK 2009. Scheduled for reading at Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA, January 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | Under close scrutiny by an ambitious young academic and a romantic waif, a famous May-December romance between a distinguished writer and his now-aging student implodes under the weight of plagiary, deceit and vengeance | |||||
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Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins | ||
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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 | #123608 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Notes: | Performed at New England Theatre Conference, 2009. Performed at annual Delta Kappa Gamma/Alpha Alpha meeting 2009, Holden Senior Center, 2010, West Boylston Historical Society, 2010, Worcester Women's History Project 2010.Scheduled for Notre Dame Academy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | FDR's controversial Secretary of Labor, the first woman ever to serve in a U.S. cabinet, looks back at her journey as she prepares to resign her post in 1945. | |||||
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M-Pill, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Foothills Theatre, Worcester, MA | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Redfeather | |||||
| 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 | #62359 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Romance One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | 1 m/f | |||||
Notes: | Read at Last Frontier Theatre Festival, Valdez, AK, 2004. | |||||
Synopsis: | Claire and Warren, a devoted, elderly couple, discover that total recall can be dangerous to quality of life | |||||
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Old Friends, New Benefit | ||
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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 | #123609 | |||
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Genre: | romantic comedy Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | Scheduled for staging at Firehouse Center for the Arts Newburyport, MA, January, 2011 | |||||
Synopsis: | After a high school reunion, old pals Jack and Carol explore the possibilities of just how far they should fling their new relationship | |||||
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Power Lunch II- Land's End Cafe | ||
| 1st Produced: | Read at Curtain Players (Columbus, OH) Playwrights' Festival | 2007 | ||||
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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 | #62361 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Penny's plans for sailing into what she hopes will be the best part of her life hit the rocks when ex-husband Dan makes an unannounced return, looking for a safe harbor to park his crashed opportunities. | |||||
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Power Lunch I-Members Only | ||
| 1st Produced: | Read at Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 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 | #62360 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Hedgehog Richard finds trying to divorce his fox of a wife, Miriam, is not as easy as he thought it was going to be. | |||||
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With Improvements by the Actors | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2004 | |||||
Company: | Shakespeare and Co., Lenox MA | |||||
| 1st Published: | by Anko Entertainment and Toneeluitgeverij VINK B.V (Netherlands) as De Acteur Weet Het Beter in Eenakters van Tien Minuten, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #61568 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In the early seventeenth century, a company of actors in a South Bank theatre improve the first draft of the author's new Danish play in its first rehearsal | |||||
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