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MELODY COOPER
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Melody Cooper's most recent play, Sweet Mercy, which deals with the genocide in Rwanda, was developed by New York Stage and Film in their 2005 summer Powerhouse series. Melody is the 2003 recipient of the Jane Chambers award for Playwriting for Day of Reckoning, a full-length play about the forgotten 19th century black activist Lucy Parsons, which also won the MultiStages New Works Competition in NY. the play was part of the New Theatre reading series in Miami last summer and will be produced there in their 2005/2006 season. Her one-act, Reading Zimbabwe, was produced in NYC three times in 2003 (including by epic Rep at DR2 with premieres by Lee Blessing and Romulus Linney). Ms. Cooper's one-act, Down Here, about 9/11 volunteers at Ground Zero, was produced in two highly successful runs in 2002. Melody recently completed a full-length biographical play about Marian Anderson for a Tony award-winning actress, and has received a commission to write a new work for epic Rep in 2006. Melody is a member of epic Rep.
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Absolute Magnitude Day Of Reckoning Down Here Reading Zimbabwe Show Way Sweet MercyAbsolute Magnitude
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Four historical female astronomers are somehow kidnapped from their eras and end up in the 21st century bedroom of a black female astrophysicist, with everyone fighting for answers, their sanity and their lives.
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one act 60 min
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about the forgotten 19th century black activist Lucy Parsons
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winner of the 2003 Jane Chambers Award And MultiStages National Playwriting Award
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Kraine Theater, Ny 2004
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MultiStages
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about 9/11 volunteers at Ground Zero
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developed by NY Stage And Film, summer 2005. Finalist for 2005 Jane Chambers Award.
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Top of PageReading Zimbabwe
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developed by NY Stage And Film, summer 2005. Finalist for 2005 Jane Chambers Award.
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Nyc 2003
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In SHOW WAY, 11-year old Toshi Georgiana has lost a beloved family heirloom. As she searches for it, she is led by generations of women who came before her, from slaves who sewed paths to freedom to civil rights marchers. Come join Toshi as she tries to find her special connection to the past and celebrates the possibilities of the future!
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Book by Melody Cooper; Music and lyrics by Tyrone Robinson; Based on the Caldecott Award-winning children's book "Show Way" by Jacqueline Woodson.
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Vital theatre
NY, USA 19 Jan 2013
NY, USA 19 Jan 2013
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Children's Musical
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Top of PageSweet Mercy
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deals with the genocide in Rwanda. an African-American generals niece is getting married but the military wedding is disrupted by the ghosts of Rwanda.
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developed by NY Stage And Film, summer 2005. Finalist for 2005 Jane Chambers Award.
1st Produced:
La MaMa First Floor theatre
74a East 4th Street, New York, NY 10005 04 Feb 2012
74a East 4th Street, New York, NY 10005 04 Feb 2012
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part of experiments a festival of concert play readings celebrating Black History Month
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