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LOUISE SCHWARZ (1974 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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LOUISE SCHWARZ is a playwright, director, and teacher. She has written several plays, including AS FATE WOULD HAVE IT, LAST LICKS IN THE BRONX, AFTER WEDNESDAY, THE FAIR HOPE MEMORIAL, FLOOR SHOW IN THE SWEET LIFE (recipient of the 2000 John Golden Award), LAST SCREAM OF THE BROKEN HOME, THIS IS MY REWARD, BEAUTY PAGEANT MASSACRE, VERONICA'S LEGACY, and AUGUST NOVEMBER. These works have been produced or work-shopped at such NYC venues as The Women's Project and Productions, Theatre for the New City, The Trilogy Theatre, The Cherry Lane Alternative, New Dramatists, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre, and the Oscar Hammerstein Center, and such out-of-town venues as Stage Left Theatre in Chicago, The Mark Taper Forum's New Work Festival in Los Angeles, the Horizon Theatre's New South for the New Century Festival in Atlanta, and Pandora's Box PlayRites of Spring Festival in Buffalo, as well as dozens of high schools and colleges across the country. Fellowships and residencies include Blue Mountain Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Hambidge Center, and the Edward Albee Foundation. She has taught playwriting and theatre appreciation at Oklahoma State University and at Hofstra University, and heads the Theatre Department at Appel Farm Arts and Music Center, where she teaches and directs each summer. She is currently an administrator and instructor with the Playwrights Project at Northern Stage in White River Junction, Vermont, which brings playwriting classes into underserved rural schools and produces an entire festival of student-written plays with professional actors, directors, and designers. Ms. Schwarz is a member of the Dramatists' Guild. B.A. Directing, University of Georgia. M.F.A. Playwriting, Columbia University.
Plays by Louise Schwarz
After Wednesday | ||
| 1st Produced: | Theater for the New City, 155 First Avenue, New York, NY 10009 >>> | 2001 | ||||
Company: | New York International Fringe 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 | #81691 | |||
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/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A look at the aftermath of a school shooting in a small Virginia town. Focusing primarily on the close friends of the perpetrators, the play asks questions about culpability and explores the far-reaching consequences of violence. | |||||
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August November | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pulse Ensemble Theatre, New York, NY | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Crescent Line Theatre Company | |||||
| 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 | #81692 | |||
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/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | In November 2001, their lives changed by unspeakable tragedy, five New Yorkers seek refuge and solace through substances, sex, work, friends, lovers, humor, and a renewed love for their city. | |||||
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