Mary Gallagher

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Mary Gallagher
Occupation(s)Playwright, screenwriter, novelist, actress, director, teacher

Mary Gallagher is an American

alumna of New Dramatists, where she developed many of her plays and created and moderated the series, "You Can Make a Life: Conversations with Playwrights" from 1994 to 2001.[1]

Plays

Mary Gallagher’s plays Father Dreams, Little Bird, Chocolate Cake, Buddies, Dog Eat Dog, Love Minus, How To Say Goodbye, De Donde? and Windshook have been published by

New York Shakespeare Festival; and in many other countries. "De Donde?" was published in American Theater in 1989. Windshook was published in New Plays from Act’s Young Conservatory Vol. I and Best Plays by Women 1996. Many of Gallagher’s short plays are anthologized, including Perfect, Sandwich, Brother and Bedtime.[1]

Screenplays

Her screenplays for

Jojo's Circus, a hit stop-motion animation show on the Disney Channel.[1]

Fellowships and honors

She has been awarded a

Writers Guild Award, and three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts.[3]

Theatrical premiers

Most of these plays are in print and continue to be produced in the U.S. and other countries:

  • Win/Lose/Draw (co-author Ara Watson) Spanish premiere, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 2005.
  • First Communion City Theatre, Miami, FL, 2004[4][5][6][7]
  • Farther Along. Musical with composer Louise Beach. Commissioned and produced by the University of New Hampshire, 2000.
  • Love Minus. NYC: Players Club, 1998.
  • The Scottish Play. Gypsy, Compost West, Capital Repertory Theatre, at the Masonic Temple, Albany, NY, 1998.
  • AMA. Gypsy, MaskWork Unltd., Compost West, Kingston Point Park, NY, 1996.
  • Premanjali and the Seven Geese Brothers. Gypsy & MaskWork Unltd., Widow Jane Cave, Rosendale, NY, 1994.
  • Windshook. Young Conservatory & Professional Company, ACT, 1992, 1996.
  • De Donde? Cincinnati Playhouse, 1990. NYC: New York Shakespeare Festival, 1990.
  • Adultery, Brother. NYC: Home, 1988.
  • Insomnia, Children of Dysfunctional Cooks
  • How to Say Goodbye. Humana Festival, 1986. NYC: Vineyard Theatre, 1987.
  • Bedtime. NYC: Ark Theatre Company, 1984.
  • Special Family Things (co-author Ara Watson). NYC: Women’s Project, 1984.
  • Dog Eat Dog. Hartford Stage Company, 1983.
  • Buddies. NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre, 1982.
  • Chocolate Cake. Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, 1981.
  • (Win/Lose/Draw). NYC: Provincetown Playhouse, 1983.
  • Little Bird. Berkshire Theatre Festival, 1980. NYC: 78th Street Theatre Lab, 1980.
  • Father Dreams. American Conservatory Theater, 1978. Loretto Hilton Repertory Theatre, 1980. NYC: Ensemble Studio Theatre, 1981.
  • Fly Away Home. American Conservatory Theater, 1977.

References

  1. ^ a b c Mary Gallagher: Bio and play details, Playscripts, Inc.
  2. ^ John Simmon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows Archived 2011-06-03 at the Wayback Machine. www.gf.org. Retrieved on June 2, 2009.
  3. Tisch School of the Arts
    . Retrieved on June 2, 2009.
  4. ^ Catholic League: The Arts 2003 Archived 2010-06-16 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. ^ Deft Actors Have 'Summer Shorts' Up and Running, Chaz Mena's Reviews, March 11, 2008.
  6. ^ And Now, Let the Heat Begin, by Ronald Mangravite, June 19, 2003.
  7. ^ "Dance by the Numbers". Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-05-29.

External links

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