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Jeanmarie Simpson

JEANMARIE SIMPSON  

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Jeanmarie Simpson is founding artistic director of the Nevada Shakespeare Company (NSC). In addition to her decades in regional theatre, she has directed dozens of NSC productions of Shakespeare and many original and new plays. In the past four years, she has directed Euripides' Trojan Women and a four-actor King Lear, which she also adapted and in which she played Goneril and the Doctor. In that time, she has also performed in The Road to Mecca, directed by Tony Award winner Zakes Mokae, Amigas, which she also co-adapted, La Noche Antes de Navidad and 263 performances of A Single Woman , which she also wrote and which ran Off-Broadway at The Culture Project in New York in spring and summer of 2005. She appeared in the film of A Single Woman, directed by Kamala Lopez-Dawson. In the fall of 2005, Jeanmarie remounted her 6-actor repertory treatments of Richard III and Hamlet as part of the NEA's Shakespeare for a New Generation initiative. She is a member of Actors' Equity Association , Screen Actors Guild, the Dramatists Guild of America and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. She has received three Sierra Arts Professional Artist Fellowships and was honored as Surdna Distinguished Guest Artist by InnerSpark, the California Summer Institute, in 2004. She sits on the national board of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).

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Amigas         Compost         Halloween         In My Own Image: brief reflections of a wicked woman         Phoenix         Platte River Paradox         Ringers         Single Woman, A         Stille Night         Tuesday's Child



Amigas

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The play is based on Amigas: Letters of Friendship and Exile, a book of letters between Sepulveda and Agosin between 1965 and 2000. Amigas illustrates the diverse experience of two Latin American women coming of age in the 1970's, their class and religious differences, political activism and ultimately their immigration to the United States. The work exposes the experience of alterity, otherness, exile, gives voice to immigrant and other invisibilized communities and reveals the dimension of discrimination worldwide.

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L. Martina Young And Jeanmarie Simpson, creator-performers

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Wayne Prim Theater, Nevada Museum of Art    2003

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Compost

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Halloween

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a 1994 Gannett Foundation Commission

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In My Own Image: brief reflections of a wicked woman

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Phoenix

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Platte River Paradox

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a collaboration by Cameron Crain And Jeanmarie Simpson

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Ringers

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Single Woman, A

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based on the life and writings of early feminist Jeannette Rankin, who was the first woman elected to Congress (before women had the right to vote!) and had a mind as tough as nails

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Barkley Theater, Fallon, Nevada    2004

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Stille Night

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In 1914, on the Western Front in World War I, peace broke out. Inspired by John McCutcheon's beautiful song, Christmas in the Trenches, NSC stages a simple, elegant offering for the holiday season

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written by Patricia Gehr And Jeanmarie Simpson

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Tuesday's Child

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It's the voices -- voices from loved ones and strangers, voices crying, voices shouting, voices praying and especially voices that have been forever silenced -- that are at the center of "Tuesday's Child,"

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