Warren Leight by Nine ten

WARREN LEIGHT wrote Side Man, which won multiple awards including the 1999 Tony Award for Best Play, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This play, Glimmer, Glimmer and Shine, received an American Theatre Critics Association Nomination for Best New Play Award. Other theatre includes Mayor, the Musical (Drama Desk nomination, Book) and The Final Investigation of Ceaucescu's Dog; (EST Marathon; Chicago Humanities Festival). Mr. Leight is on the Councils of both the Writers' Guild of America East and the Dramatists' Guild.

Arlene Hutton by I Dream Before I Take the Stand

Arlene Hutton is a MacDowell Colony fellow and member of the Dramatists’ Guild. Her first full-length, LAST TRAIN TO NIBROC, received a 2000 NY Drama League nomination for Best Play and more than fifty regional productions. AS IT IS IN HEAVEN premiered in Edinburgh, opened in NYC at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, moved to the ArcLight Theatre and received a highly-acclaimed four-month run at the Actors’ Co-op in LA. Both plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and in the Smith & Kraus Best Women Playwrights anthologies. A four-time Heideman Award finalist and a three-time Samuel French Short Play Festival winner, her NY credits include: The Barrow Group, Circle-in-the-Square Downtown, Alice’s Fourth Floor, Ensemble Studio Theatre, HERE, and Vital Theatre. At the Australian National Playwrights Conference, she workshopped a sequel to NIBROC. She teaches at Fordham University and The Barrow Group and is writing a play about the Brontë family, a commission for Clear Channel Theatrical Division.

http://www.newdramatists.org/arlene_hutton.htm

Beauty by jane martin

I would say that Beauty represents high comedy. This play relies mostly on wit and wordplay. Bethany tries to relay to her friend the humor of the fact she found a genie and how she was able to use that to get what she really wants. However she waited to be sure of exactly what that wish would be and that was to be beautiful just like Carla. In the end that is exactly what happened Bethany and Carla switched bodies, unfortunately they didn’t switch there souls only the external aspect of what the body truly is just a body.I think the most important trait they have in common is the fact that they want to be each other more than themselves. They are able to find the good characteristics they yearn for in the other person.I think our society encourages people to be beautiful look at the magazines. There are no ugly people on there. Is there a magazine about a beautiful personalities, I don’t think so.I think in general we all want to be someone else and can find a trait or characteristic that we desire within them.I think there are millions of people, who wish they could look or be like someone else, that in some way that would solve their problems. Like Bethany said, “but the difference between those ardent multitudes and me is that I have a goddamn genie and one more wish!” In other words she had the power to fulfill her desire.I think Beauty was an effective comedy by portraying the needs of people and their desires within, even though they may not say it out loud they think about it often.

http://www.seesbeauty.com/3406/beauty-by-jane-martin/

Joyce carol oates

Joyce Carol Oates was born on June 16, 1938, in Lockport, New York, the oldest of Frederic and Caroline Oates's three children. The family lived on a farm owned by Caroline's parents. Joyce's father was a tool designer, and her mother was a housewife. Oates was a serious child who read a great deal. Even before she could write, she told stories by drawing pictures. She has said that her childhood "was dull, ordinary, nothing people would be interested in," but she has admitted that "a great deal frightened me."

In 1953, at age fifteen, Oates wrote her first novel, though it was rejected by publishers who found its subject matter, which concerned the rehabilitation (the restoring to a useful state) of a drug addict, too depressing for teenage audiences. After high school Oates won a scholarship to Syracuse University,

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ni-Pe/Oates-Joyce-Carol.html

Dob dylan

Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman; May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and musician. He has been a major figure in popular music for five decades.^[2] Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was at first an informal chronicler, and later an apparently reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of his songs such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'" became anthems for the civil rights^[3] and anti-war^[4] movements. His early lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social and philosophical, as well as literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres, exploring numerous distinct traditions in American song – from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll and rockabilly, to English, Scottish and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.^[5]

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Dylan performs with guitar, keyboard, and harmonica. Backed by a changing line-up of musicians, he has toured steadily since the late 1980s on what has been dubbed the Never Ending Tour. His accomplishments as a recording artist and performer have been central to his career, but his greatest contribution is generally considered to be his songwriting.^[2]

He has received numerous awards over the years including Grammy, Golden Globe and Academy Awards; he has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2008 a Bob Dylan Pathway was opened in the singer's honor in his birthplace of Duluth, Minnesota.^[6] The Pulitzer Prize jury in 2008 awarded him a special citation for what they called his profound impact on popular music and American culture, "marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power."^[7]

Jose rivera Tape drama

Rivera was born in the Santurce section of San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1955. He was raised in Arecibo where he lived until 1959. Rivera's family migrated from Puerto Rico when he was 4 years old, and moved to New York. They settled down in Long Island, whose small town environment would be of an influence to him in the future. His parents were very religious and he grew up in a household whose only book was the Bible. His family enjoyed telling stories and he learned a lot by hearing these stories. As a child, he also enjoyed watching The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits T.V. series. He received his primary and secondary education in the New York state public school system. In 1968, when Rivera was 12 years old, he saw a traveling company perform the play "Rumpelstiltskin" at his school. Witnessing the collective reaction of the audience towards the play convinced the young Rivera that someday, he too, would like to write plays.