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TANYA PALMER
Nationality: USA
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Tanya Palmer is a playwright and Dramaturg. Her plays, which include Body Talk, Fatherland, Barbra Live at Canyon Ranch, Spring and Trash, have been workshopped and/or produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Hangar Theatre, Solar Stage and the Montreal Fringe Festival, the Harbourfront Centre, HERE and the Wilton Project, and published by Smith & Kraus, Samuel French, and Playscripts, Inc. She currently serves as the Literary Manager at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Prior to moving to the big city, she was the Director of New Play Development at Actors Theatre of Louisville, where she was responsible for the reading and selection process for the Humana Festival of New American Plays and the National Ten-Minute Play Contest. She has co-edited several collections of new plays, and has written articles on Theatre and new play development for American Theatre, Theatre Topics andParabasis. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, she holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from York University in Toronto.
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Back Story SpringBack Story
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When Ethan is born in the worst blizzard of the century, two-year-old sister Ainsley nearly sacrifices a toe trying to clear a path for the baby's arrival. That initial gesture of devotion blossoms into a tale of sibling loyalty, rivalry and love that spans two decades. Inspired by Joan Ackermann's narrative "Back Story," each of the eighteen playwrights in this collective creation puts a distinctive spin on Ainsley's and Ethan?s amusing and poignant struggles with life, with each other, and with the phantom dad who abandoned them for the wilds of Alaska
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by Joan Ackermann Courtney Baron Neena Beber Constance Congdon Jon Klein Shirley Lauro Craig Lucas Eduardo Machado Donald Margulies Jane Martin Susan Miller John Olive Tanya Palmer David Rambo Edwin Sanchez Adele Edling Shank Mayo Simon Val Smith. Based
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Dramatic Anthology
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Set in the contemporary American South, Spring tells the story of Michael and Wendy, two popular kids whose growing fascination with suffering radically transforms their lives and forces them to see the world in an honest and dangerous new way. Part satire, part fantasy, Spring is an imaginative journey into the dark heart of high school, inspired bySpring's Awakening, Frank Wedekind's classic tale of adolescent desire and rebellion.
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North Carolina Governor's School for the Arts (Raleigh, NC, United States) 2000
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75-90 min Dark comedy
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Male: 5 Female: 5 Other: 5 males, 5 females (10-22 actors possible: 5-11 males, 5-11 females)
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