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Ann Marie Shea

ANN MARIE SHEA

  
Nationality:    Irish and USA
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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.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Best in Class         Briar Rose         Family Archive         Final Witness         Last Word         Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins         M-Pill, The         Old Friends, New Benefit         Power Lunch II- Land's End Cafe         Power Lunch I-Members Only         With Improvements by the Actors

Best in Class

Synopsis:
Emily and Roger's divorce is even less successful than their marriage had been, due in some measure to a sloppy division of "assets," including Suzi, the French poodle, and Jack, the Jack Russell.

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1st Produced:
Barrington Stage Company. Pittsfield, MA     11 Feb 2016

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Briar Rose

Synopsis:
A retelling of the Sleeping Beauty legend, the play is a spectacle featuring powers of the Zodiac.

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1st Produced:
SouthEastern Regional Technical High School. South Easton, MA     27 Feb 2016

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Family Archive

Synopsis:
As two adult sisters clean out their late mother's house, seemingly insignificant paperwork reveals a dark family secret.

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Scheduled for staging At Turtle Lane, Auburndale, MA, January 2011

1st Produced:
Torrent Theatre. New York, NY     21 Apr 2016

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Final Witness

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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

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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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

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Read At Last Frontier Theatre Conference     2009

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Play/Drama

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Madame Secretary, Frances Perkins

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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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

1st Produced:
Mount Holyoke College. South Hadley, MA     28 Jan 2016

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M-Pill, The

Synopsis:
Claire and Warren, a devoted, elderly couple, discover that total recall can be dangerous to quality of life

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Read At Last Frontier theatre Festival, Valdez, AK, 2004.

1st Produced:
Foothills Theatre, Worcester, Ma     2005

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Redfeather

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Genre:
Romance One Act

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Male:  1            Female:  1            Other:  1 m/f

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Old Friends, New Benefit

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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Scheduled for staging At Firehouse Center for the Arts Newburyport, MA, January, 2011

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Genre:
romantic comedy Ten Min

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Power Lunch II- Land's End Cafe

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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1st Produced:
Read At Curtain Players (Columbus, Oh) Playwrights' Festival     2007

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Genre:
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Power Lunch I-Members Only

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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Read At Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, Ak     2006

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Genre:
Comedy One Act

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With Improvements by the Actors

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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Shakespeare and Co., Lenox MA

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by Anko Entertainment and Toneeluitgeverij VINK B.V (Netherlands) as De Acteur Weet Het Beter in Eenakters van Tien Minuten, 2006   -

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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