| Ruth Margraff. Playwright and librettist Ruth Margraff is a recipient of four Rockefeller Foundation commissions, a McKnight national commission and residency with the Playwrights' Center, a Fulbright New Opera Award to Greece, and two NYSCA Individual Artist awards, in addition to awards from TMUNY, TCG/ITI, NEA, Arts International, and Meet the Composer, among others. Her work has been developed and produced throughout New York City and the U.S., as well as in Russia, Greece, Japan, India, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Netherlands, Romania, Great Britain, and Canada. Ms. Margraff is currently collaborating with Overtone Industries and the Theater of Note in Los Angeles, Big Red Media for BAM New Wave and the Apollo Theater in New York, and Seven/Vital Voices Global Partnership in Washington, D.C., as well as touring with her Café Antarsia Ensemble signed to Innova Records. She released her second album, Songs of the Table, in October, 2007, and her writing has been published by Performing Arts Journal, Kendall/Hunt, Backstage Books, American Theatre, Theater Forum, The Dramatist, Romanian Cultural Institute (CUNY), Johns Hopkins, Manchester, NuMuse Anthology (Brown), Chain (Temple), Epoch (Cornell), Conjunctions (Bard), Autonomedia, and Playscripts, among others. Ms. Margraff is an alumnae of New Dramatists and a member of Hourglass Group, Theatre Without Borders, and League of Professional Theater Women, and represented by Susan Schulman. She's an Associate Professor of the Master of Fine Arts program in Writing at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. |
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$14.95 per book
Discover a monologue book like no other. Actor's Choice: Monologues for Women gives you an extraordinary array of cutting-edge new monologues, from comedic to dramatic and everything in between. Unlike other monologue books, the source of every monologue is easily accessible -- each play is available through one website (www.playscripts.com), where you can read nearly the entire published script online for free. Explore the work of today's most celebrated theatrical voices, including Naomi Iizuka, Rinne Groff, Jane Martin, Pulitzer Prize winners Lynn Nottage and David Lindsay-Abaire, and many more!
Also in this series:
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Men
Actor's Choice: Monologues for Teens
Actor's Choice: Scenes for Teens
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Dark comedy/Romance
Short, 35-60 minutes
2 females, 1 male (2-9 actors possible: exactly 2 females, 0-7 males)
$35.00 per performance; $5.99 per book
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Edith and Patti-Jo attempt to come to terms with their post-high school friendship in a 1980s world of Harlequin romances, Hallmark sentiment, and marching band uniformed burglars. Patti-Jo marks time in her whirlwind life by a sequence of Senior pictures of her boyfriends until one tragic car accident, while Edith descends into the loneliness of mail order catalogs and knitted sweaters. The story that unfolds between the two girls moves like an X-ray of female friendship, and the tightly knotted bones of many things latent.
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