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FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG (1983 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: AO International UK representative Alan Brodie Representation Ltd |
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's play Lidless, produced at the Contemporary American Theatre and Edinburgh Festivals and soon to be produced by Interact Theatre in Philadelphia, P73 Productions in New York and Trafalagar Studios on the West End, received the Yale Drama Series Award, an Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the Keene Prize for Literature, and the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize. She has received residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ragdale, and the Santa Fe Art Institute, and is under commission from South Coast Rep and Seattle Rep. Her plays have been developed at the Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, Seattle Rep, PlayPenn, the Alley Theatre, Ojai Playwrights Conference, the Playwright's Foundation and Yale Rep. Frances received an MFA in Writing from the James A. Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin, a BA in Sociology from Brown University, and a certificate in Ensemble Created Physical Theatre from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Her work has been published by Glimmer Train and Yale University Press. Frances was born in Philadelphia, and raised in Northern Virginia, Okinawa, Taipei and Beijing.
Plays by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
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| 1st Produced: | University of Texas at Austin | Oct 2008 | ||||
Company: | High Tide 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 | #124252 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 either | |||||
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Synopsis: | A sister journeys to the Chinese Land of the Dead in search of her missing brother, encountering a frenetic landscape where the Goddess of Mercy and the Monkey King reign, and Dance Dance Revolution holds the key to Transmigration. | |||||
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Lidless | ||
| 1st Produced: | University of Texas at Austin | Feb 2009 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Yale University Press (September 14, 2010) | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1408152881 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #116821 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Lidless is a work of extraordinary intelligence and finely-balanced sensibility. It marries the implacable logic of a Greek tragedy with an all-too-modern setting. It's been fifteen years since Guantánamo, fifteen years since Bashir last saw his U.S. Army interrogator, Alice. Bashir is now dying of a disease of the liver, an organ that he believes is the home of the soul. He tracks down Alice in Texas and demands that she donate half her liver as restitution for the damage wrought during her interrogations. But Alice doesn't remember Bashir; a PTSD pill trial she participated in while in the army has left her without any memory of her time there. It is only when her inquisitive fourteen-year-old daughter begins her own investigation that the fragile peace of mind that Alice's drug-induced oblivion enabled begins to falter. | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume XXXI (2011) Issue 06 Page 288 | |||||
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