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Show , Festival to present Plays in Progress readings The Utah Shakespearean Festival will present its annual staged readings of New nominations for the Helen Hayes Award and the National Play Award. She taught playwriting at Wayne State University, the University of Notre Dame, Saint Plays-in-Progress Thursday and Friday mornings during the month of August. The four plays will also be presented in series August 28, 29, 30, and 31. The readings Mary's College, UCLA, the Ohio State University, and Ohio Reformatory for will begin at 10 a.m. in Thorley Hall, located in Southern Utah University's Music Women. In 1994, she assumed ferry Crawford's position when he retired as head of the M.F.A. Professional Training Program in Playwriting at UNLV. Building. The four plays being read this year are Tenderhooks by Julie Jensen (August 3-4 Edward EmanuEl (A Woman of Power) holds a B.A. degree in drama and an M.A. degree in playwriting from San fose State University and a Ph.D. in theatre from and 28), A Woman of Power by Edward F. EmanuEl !August 10-11 and 29), Glass Mountain by Doris Baizley !August 17-18 and 30), and Heir to the Covenant by the University of Minnesota. Author of more than 30 plays and film scripts, his Robert Paxton (August 24-25, 31). work has been produced in California, Connecticut (Hartford Stage Company), Washington, Montana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Washington, D .C. (American Producers note that the plays in this series are written for a contemporary adult College Theatre Festival National Winner at the Kennedy Center), England, Wales, audience and often contain strong language and themes that some may find offensive. Scotland !Edinburgh Theatre Festival), Tenderhooks is a play about a fussy Japan, Taiwan, and the Republic of woman who is frightened by a family China. Awards include a Shubert that moves in next door. But what she National Fellowship in Playwriting, American College Theatre Festival Gold fears in them ultimately exorcises her Medallion for Excellence, California own demons. It is play about love and State Legislature Award, California clas and coming together in the most State Univer ity Outstanding Professor, improbable ways, a play about dignity and tolerance in the most improbable and a United States Senate Federal Commendation for the play Passages. places. A Woman of Power is set in nineteenth Other representative play titles include century Eastern Europe, in an orthodox Kaiser Bill and the Grand Parade, Jewish family, and in a society where Conquest of My Brother lover 300 women are second to men and have no productions), The Liberty Dance of control over their futures. The play is Henry Sparrow, Guys Like Me and about power and about a woman who Bogey, and The Telethon Pool. Conquest begins life as a powerles individual of My Brother was filmed and nominated for an Emmy Award. completely at the mercy of a male dominated society which sees ber as EmanuEl ha also acted in and directed little more than chattel. Yet she dozens of plays, inclucling plays by Shakespeare at the Monterey Peninsula achieves. Her transformation is helped Shakespeare Fe tival. He is a professor along through demonic possession, but it of theatre at California State Univcr ity, i the woman's sense of self-worth that makes the play interesting and Fresno, as well as a frequent lecturer in theatrical. Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, and England. Three Brothers Grimm tales are woven Plays by Doris Baizley [Glass into a modem story set in a glass house Mountain), Mrs. California, Tears of on a southern California mountaintop in Rage, Catholic (Jirls, Daniel in Glass Mountain . Here a famous Babylon, Guns, and A Christmas Carol composer is having a dry spell, his have been produced in regional theatres including the Mark Taper Forum, A daughter wants out, a young musician wants in, and the composer's mistress Contemporary Theatre in Seattle, the wants him working again. Thus, in the Cleveland Playhouse, People's Light and Tbeatre Company, Capital Rep, the humorous, magical, and highly charged atmosphere of a fairy tale, a National Theatre of the Deaf, and the contemporary king, prince, enchanted Semafor Theatre in Prague. Her new play, Mimi's Guide, was given a staged princess, and wicked stepmother reading as part of the Mark Taper struggle with each other and the conflicting charms of fame, family, Forum's New Work Festival in music, and love. November 1994. She is currently working on its sequel, May, for the Set in Nauvoo, Illinois, between 1842 and 1844, Heir to the Covenant depicts Taper's new mentor program for 1995the events surrounding the introduction 96. Her screenplays Until She Talks, of polygamy into the Church of Jesus starring Pamela Reed, and Land of Little Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mormon Rain, starring Helen Hunt, have been seen on PBS's American Playhouse. She prophet Joseph Smith has received a is a founding member of LA Theatre revelation that he must implement a doctrine of plural marriage which Works and was resident playwright for tbe Mark Taper Forum's contradicts his own moral upbringing. He is faced with conflicts between his Luca Pellegrini (le~). Annalisa Pappano, Cory Thorne, and fames Dubberly in the Improvisational Theatre Project for personal faith and his duty to his God, complimentary Greenshow presented each evening this summer at the Utah seven years. She directs LA Theatre between his absolute commitment to Shakespearean Festival. Works' playwriting workshop, Writer's obey revelations received from God and - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - -- -- - - Dialogue. his love for his wife Emma. He wants to live in peace and ensure the life of the Robert Paxton (Heir to the Covenant) is a Utah native who has also lived in Church he restored, but what of this controversial revelation? Betrayals and Arizona, Texas, Virginia, Germany, Belgium, and France. As the director of theatre counter-betrayals pile up until Joseph must either renounce the revelation or die. programs at the Tuacahn Center for the Arts, he now makes his home in St. George, Utah. Paxton received an M.A. in English, creative writing/dramatic Ultimately, it is the way he chooses to reconcile his dilemma that raises him to heroic proportions. literature from Brigham Young University and an M.F.A. in theatre, playwriting from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His other plays include Fair Play (which A native of Utah, Julie Jensen (Tenderbooks) holds B.A. and M.A. degrees from Utah State University and a Ph.D. in theatre from Wayne State University in was awarded second place in the Vera Hinckley Mayhew Playwriting Competition Detroit. Her plays have been produced in New York, Baltimore, San Francisco, in 1990), What Wondrous Things, Pricing Tomatoes, and the one-man show Brother Joseph. This summer also saw the release of his first film, Second Chance, Washington, D.C. (Arena Stage), Detroit, Roanoke, Salt Lake City (Salt Lake Acting Company), and Los Angeles, among others. Representative plays include, co-written with Lyman Dayton. Heir to the Covenant is his newest play. Cisterns, Night Line, Day of the Races, Old Wives Tale, Thursday's Child, and The New Plays-in-Progress Readings offer Festival audiences an introduction to The Lost Vegas Series. Her work has been published in The Literary Review, TCG four interesting new plays and the opportunity to explore the development of each New Plays in Progress, The Kenyon Review. Alaska Quarterly, and Dramatists play with the playwright, the director, and the actors, all involved in the creative Play Service. Jensen has also worked in comedy development for Columbia process. Admission to the readings is complimentary, and no seats are reserved. However, Pictures and wrote three episodes for a Norman Lear pilot and a script for tbe conttibutions are encouraged to help support the continuation and development of American Film Institute. Her awards include the CBS/Dramatists Guild Prize for Stray Dogs, the 1990 Award for New American Plays for White Money, and this exciting new Festival program. / |