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ROSANNA STAFFA |
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Born in Italy, Rosanna Staffa first wrote for the stage with a translation of the work of Dario Fo. She received a commission from The Children's Theatre Company for a musical adaptation of Hansel and Gretel (with lyrics and music by Ruth Mackenzie), which was seen at PlayLabs 2003 and produced on stage at The Children's Theatre in Fall of 2004. She received a joint commission from the Guthrie Theater and The Playwrights' Center for the play Ada, based on the life of Ada Byron, the daughter of the poet, hailed as the first person to write a computer program. Ada was nominated for the Kesselring Prize and the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She was included in the Seattle Rep's Women Playwrights Festival/Hedgebrook 2004. Her work has been seen in the Mark Taper Forum's Taper Too and the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles, at Soho Rep and Off-Broadway at St. Clement's Theatre in New York. In Minneapolis, her work has been seen at The Playwrights' Center, The Children's Theatre Company, with Thirst Theater at the Minnesota Fringe Festival, and the Theatre Garage. Her play, The Innocence of Ghosts, won the AT&T OnStage Award and has been filmed for the permanent collection of the Lincoln Center Library on Film Collection. She received a McKnight Advancement Grant and a Jerome Fellowship, and is a Core Member of The Playwright's Center in Minneapolis.
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Plays by Rosanna Staffa
Ada | ||
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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 | #50684 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | The play takes us through the tumultuous life of Ada, daughter of the poet George Byron. An inspired genius, Ada is now credited with imagining the first computer program, one century ahead of her time. The play explores the wild tangential workings of her brain and her encounters with Babbage, Darwin and Lewis Carroll as they try to envision a new way of looking at the world. In her struggle against the genteel cage of a Victorian woman's life her best companion is the spirit of her dead father, whose tragic fate she is destined to follow. | |||||
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Gemini | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #50685 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Jack, a writer of thrillers, is caught in the undertow of his obsession with an elusive drifter. A reclusive insomniac, Jack spends his nights spying on Maxine, a runaway who works in a strip joint. When Maxine enters his world, an hallucinatory journey begins. | |||||
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Hansel And Gretel | ||
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| 1st Published: | http://www.playsforyoungaudiences.org, 2010 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #50686 | |||
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Genre: | Musical | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | Based on the classic tale by the Brothers Grimm, with music and lyrics by Ruth Mackenzie | |||||
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Innocence of Ghosts | ||
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Company: | Pan Asian Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 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 | #90930 | |||
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Skin Of The House, The | ||
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| Music: | - | doollee no | #50687 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
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Synopsis: | A young woman, Cadiz, is obsessed by the disappearance of her brother, MIA in Vietnam. Trying to bring him back makes for a dangerous ride, in a fluid world where apparitions and reality merge. | |||||
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