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Marilyn R Campbell

MARILYN R CAMPBELL

  
Nationality:    USA
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Marilyn Campbell is a published playwright, award-winning actress, independent producer, co-founder (with Michael Halberstam) of the Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, Ill., and board member and artistic associate of the 16th Street Theater in Berwyn, Ill. Her co-adaptation with Curt Columbus of Crime and Punishment garnered a 2003 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Award, a 2009 L.A. Backstage Garland Award and a 2009 nomination from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle for Best New Adaptation. Crime and Punishment has been performed in more than 40 Theaters across the United States including Writers' Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Festival (Top Pick at the 2005 Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays), Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, 59e59th Street Theater, Berkeley Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Intiman Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Actors Co-op, PICT, Actors Theater of Louisville, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and, in 2011, Hawaii Repertory, Chester Theatre Company, American Players Theatre and Center Stage (directed by Jason Loweth). Campbell's other full-length plays include the award-winning My Own Stranger, a co-adaptation based on the writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton; the Beats, based on the writings of the 1950's beat poets, which Hedy Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times called "rousing, thought-provoking, and verbally brilliant"; and the Gospel According to Mark Twain, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland. Campbell is currently writing a new play, commissioned by Writers' Theatre and based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, entitled the Monster's Lullaby. In addition to playwriting, Campbell is the host of a radio show called "the Feminist Lens" which airs on WFMT Chicago. She is a member of Actors equity Association and the Dramatist Guild of America.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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         Beats, The         Crime And Punishment         Mixing it Up         My Own Stranger

Beats, The

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Campbell has selected and sculpted her texts superbly, with such classic works as Ginsberg's Howl, given enviable interpretation by David Cromer. But her arrangements also make the case for Gregory Corso, whose Bomb opens this two-hour party of words . . . An assiduous researcher, Campbell restores the voices of female poets to what is often seen as an all-male movement. And LeRoi Jones . . . is a presence here, too. . . . One would have to go back to the glory days of Arnold Aprill and City Lit theatre for story-theater performances and direction as invigorating as these. Rick Paul's design transforms the boutique performance space into a period coffee house, and Joe Cerqua's sound lays down just the right amounts of Brubeck and Miles. --Andrew Patner, 4/30/87, Chicago Sun-Times

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I saw the best minds of my generation starving, hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix . . . what sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! the heavy judger of men! Moloch the crossbone, soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! -- Allen Ginsberg, HOWL

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Writers Theatre, Glencoe, Il     1997

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Crime And Punishment

Crime And Punishment
a brilliant young student, an unorthodox detective, and a young woman forced into a life of prostitution are hurtled together by a brutal act of murder
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adapted by Marilyn Campbell And Curt Columbus. 90-minute Adaptation of the famous novel by Dostoevsky

1st Produced:
Writers Theatre, Glencoe, Il     2003

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Mixing it Up

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Real life mother/daughter comedy team, Marilyn Campbell (a Caucasian Mother) and Maria Merrin (her mixed race daughter), relate hilarious and touching personal stories about hair and the difficulties and joys of mixing the races, feminism and single motherhood in our time. the script is a spoken-word, language based, stand-up comedy venue, intended for teenage audiences and above.

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Chicago's Storefront Theater For Estrogen Fest     2005

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My Own Stranger

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Based on the writings of Anne Sexton

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Provincetown Playhouse     13 Oct 1981

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