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KAREN MALPEDE (1945 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc |
Karen Malpede's thirteen plays have premiered in New York City produced at: Theater for the New City, Classic Stage Company, TSOA-NYU, on Theater Row, at the Fourth St. Theater, The Culture Project, and at: Theater J, Cleveland Public Theater, and read at the Kennedy Center and New York Theater Workshop. She has had productions of three of her plays in London, Berlin, Austria, Australia, and Italy. Her short fiction, plays and essays are published in anthologies and literary journals. She is author of A Monster Has Stolen the Sun and Other Plays. Obie awards, acting and set design, for "I Will Bear Witness" which she conceptualized, adapted and directed. McKnight National Playwrights' Fellowship; NYFA Playwriting Fellowship; Pushcart Prize nominee. She is known for a body of work that bears witness to resistance to the wars and violence of the 20th and 21st Centuries.
Plays by Karen Malpede
Beekeeper's Daughter, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Dionysia International Festival of Drama | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Theater Three Collaborative | |||||
| 1st Published: | [selection] Genocide, War & Human Survival (MD: Rowman & Littlefield), 1996 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22106 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A human rights activist brings a Bosnian woman who has been raped and is pregnant to her poet-father's island retreat | |||||
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Better People | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 1986 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Angels of Power and other Reproductive Creatures, ed by Susan Hawthorne and Renate klein, Spinifex, Australia, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22107 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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End Of The War, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | New Cycle Theater | 1976 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Marlboro press, Vermont, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22108 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Going To Iraq | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 1992 | ||||
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 | #22109 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | WBAI/Pacifica Radio | |||||
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I Will Bear Witness: the Holocaust Diaries of Victor Klemperer | ||
| 1st Produced: | Classic Stage Company, NYC | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Classic Stage Co. | |||||
| 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 | #22110 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | Obie award for acting and scene design | |||||
Synopsis: | 1933-1945, the story of Victor Klemperer, as edited from his diary and in his own words. Survival during the Holocaust of a great diarist; Victor Klemperer was married to an Aryan woman and kept an illegal diary during the Hitler years. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Iraq:Speaking of War | ||
| 1st Produced: | CUNY-Graduate Center Proshansky Auditorium | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Culture Project | |||||
| 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 | #22792 | |||
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Genre: | Documentary with music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Notes: | original music for harp by Milos Raikovich | |||||
Synopsis: | In the words of Iraqi civilians, US soldiers and un-embedded journalists, the story of the first two years of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Names of Iraqi and U.S. victims of war are read. A ritual documentary with original and Arab music. | |||||
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Kassandra | ||
| 1st Produced: | Tisch School of the Arts, New York | 1992 | ||||
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 | #22111 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | adaptation of novel by Christa Wolf | |||||
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Lament For Three Women, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1974 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in a Century of Plays by American Women, ed by Rachel France, Richard Rosen Press, NY, 1979 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22112 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Monster has Stolen The Sun, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | Arts at St. Ann's | 1981 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Marlboro press, Vermont, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22113 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Prophecy | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshop: New York Theater Workshop | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Theater Three Collaborative, Inc | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Best Women's Monologues for the Millennium & Best Men's Monologues for the Millenium, Applause, 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22560 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | Prophecy has had workshop readings at the Kennedy-Center's Page-to-Stage Festival; the Makor/Steinhardt Center of the 92nd St. Y.; English Language Theatre, Berlin, Germany; and New York Theater Workshop: | |||||
Synopsis: | In Prophecy , history, myth and memory erupt inside a marriage when a troubled acting student and an estranged daughter make claims upon the affections of Sarah and Alan Golden. With humor and compassion, Prophecy explores the layered legacies of wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Lebanon through the lives of complex, well-intentioned people and shows the possibility of reconciliation which coexists alongside tragedy. | |||||
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Rebeccah | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1975 | ||||
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 | #22114 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Sappho & Aphrodite | ||
| 1st Produced: | New York | 1983 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Marlboro press, Vermont, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22115 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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US | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 1987 | ||||
Company: | Theater for the New City | |||||
| 1st Published: | in Women on the Verge: Seven Avant-garde American Plays, ed Rosette C Lamont, Applause Books, NY, 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #22116 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Two actors play six characters, themselves and their parents, in eleven scenes of psycho-sexual dynamics | |||||
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