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Michele Lowe

MICHELE LOWE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Michele Lowe is the recipient of the 2010 Francesca Primus Prize for her play INaNa (Denver Center Theatre). She was also a finalist for both the 2010 Steinberg/aTCa New Play award for her plays INaNa and VICTORIa MUSICa (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), which marks the first time in the award's 33 year history that a playwright has been independently nominated for two plays in one season, and the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for INaNA. Her play MaP OF HeaVeN was developed at the Colorado New Play Summit and will also premiere in Denver in 2011. Lowe is the author of the SMeLL OF the KILL (Broadway debut), STRING OF PeaRLS (Primary Stages; Outer Critics Circle Nomination for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play), BaCKSLIDING IN the PROMISeD LaND (Syracuse Stage) and MeZZULaH, 1946 (City Theatre in Pittsburgh). She is the librettist and lyricist for the musical a Thousand WORDS COMe TO MIND (Zipper Theatre), which she wrote with composer Scott Richards. Lowe has been commissioned by the Cincinnati Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, arden Theatre and GEva Theatre. Her plays have been produced by the Vineyard Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Florida Stage, Reykjavik City Theatre (Iceland), Berkshire Theatre Festival, and asolo Repertory Theatre among dozens of others. Her work has been developed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, New Harmony Project, PlayLabs, New York Stage & Film, Hartford Stage's BRaND: NeW Festival, the ACT & Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival and the Lark Play Development Center. Her work appears in New Playwrights/the Best Plays of 2005 (Smith and Kraus, 2006), the Best Women's Stage Monologues 2005 (Smith and Kraus, 2006) and Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann, 2004). Lowe is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and aSCaP.

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

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below is a list of Michele Lowe's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Backsliding In the Promised Land         Inana         Map Of Heaven         Mezzulah 1946         Motherhood Out Loud         Priest In A Pool         Smell Of the Kill         String Of Pearls         Thousand Words Come To Mind, A         Victoria Musica

Backsliding In the Promised Land

Synopsis:
A Jewish couple flee Amsterdam in 1939 for America. Once there they change their identities and become members of the Episcopal church. Many years later their secret comes out when they help an Orthodox Jewish couple deal with their son's terminal illness

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1st Produced:
Syracuse Stage    2003

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Inana

Inana
On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Baghdad, one man, an Iraqi museum curator, plots to save the statue of Inana, Goddess of War, from destruction by the invaders. Fleeing to London with his young bride, he makes a life-altering deal to ensure the statue's preservation. Michele Lowe opens a window of hope and healing with her poignant love story amidst a background of international, and personal, intrigue.

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Denver Center Theater    22 Jan 2009

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Map Of Heaven

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A rising artist is about to have an exhibition of her map paintings. Her world is turned upside down when her radiologist husband makes a fatal mistake

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Mezzulah 1946

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World War Two is over and the men returning home expect to get their jobs back. Mezzulah has no intention of giving up her job in the aircraft factory

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Motherhood Out Loud

Synopsis:
Utterly unpredictable, Motherhood Out Loud shatters traditional notions about parenthood, unveils its inherent comedy and celebrates the deeply personal truths that span and unite generations. Motherhood Out Loud reveals with illuminating insight the humor, raw emotions and rocky roads we experience in life.
- nytheatre.com

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Written by Leslie Ayvazian, Brooke Berman, David Cale, Jessica Goldberg, Beth Henley, Lameece Issaq, Claire LaZebnik,Lisa Loomer, Michele Lowe, Marco Pennette, Theresa Rebeck, Luanne Rice, Annie Weisman And Cheryl L. West.

1st Produced:
59e59 theaters
59 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022    04 Oct 2011

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Primary Stages

1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, NY,    978-0822225898

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Priest In A Pool

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Originally performed under the overall title "Obstruction Plays" with five other plays.

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Slant Theater Project

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One act

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Smell Of the Kill

Synopsis:
Three unhappy marriages. When the three husbands get accidentally locked in the meat locker - what are their wives to do?

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Cleveland Playhouse    1999

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Comedy

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String Of Pearls

Synopsis:
a pearl necklace and the women who own it over time

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1st Produced:
City Theater (Pittsburgh)    2004

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Echo Theatre

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Genre:
Comedy

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Thousand Words Come To Mind, A

Synopsis:
A dying woman tells her daughter and her doctor that she was the inspiration to many of America's great writers such as John Updike and Philip Roth

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Genre:
Monologue play

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Victoria Musica

Synopsis:
A famous cellist dies and a music critic comes to believe all her recordings are frauds

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Genre:
Drama

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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