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Lenora Champagne

LENORA CHAMPAGNE

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    New Dramatists  

a native of the French Louisiana countryside with a doctorate in Performance Studies from NYU, Lenora Champagne thrives on urban life but more frequently writes about the Dramas of women and men who live in a more direct relationship to nature. She came to New York to be a painter, but found her voice in performance. Champagne, who often collaborates with sculptors, composers and media artists, has been making work as a performance artist, playwright, and director since 1981. December 2011 marks the thirtieth anniversary of her work as a performance and Theatre artist.

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         Best Things In Life, The         Coaticook         Creole: A Tropical Fantasy         Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows         Dusk         Getting Over Tom         I.C./I See         Isabella Dreams the New World         Manna         Mother's Little Helper         My Nebraska         Sarah Bernhardt Meets Her Waterloo         Staying Afloat         Tiny Lights         Tourist's Guide To the Big Easy, A         Traces/Fades         Wants         Way To the River, The         Winter Heat         With You, The Rest Of         Women In Research

Best Things In Life, The

Synopsis:
fairy tales are subverted and revised in light of the realities of contemporary life

Notes:
Downtown Art Co

1st Produced:
New York    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
In Transgressions: the Iowa anthology Of Innovative Fiction, 1994 and In the Iowa Review, 1994   -

Music:
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Genre:
One act

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Male:  1            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Coaticook

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1st Published:
in New Dramatists 2000: Plays (Smith and Kraus), 2001
in "New World Plays", NoPassport Press   -

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Creole: A Tropical Fantasy

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Genre:
Ten Min

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Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows

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1st Published:
in the Makings Of Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows: Research through Performance, edited by Dianne Hunter (Lewiston, NY: edwin Mellen Press), 1998   -

Music:
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Dusk

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1st Published:
Performing Arts Journal, Winter 2001   -

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Getting Over Tom

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1st Published:
Theatre Week, Oct 1990; Benzene 8, Fall l983; excerpted in Contemporary American Monologues For Women, edited by Todd London (NY: TCG), 1998    -

Music:
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Genre:
12 - 20 mins One act

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I.C./I See

Synopsis:
The piece, I.C./I See, is a response to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and to experiences of Japan and Italy. In it, Umiko Fujiwara, a travelling drug salesperson who sells eyedrops for those who have become jaded, is captured by the minions of Kim Khan, ruler of the kingdom, who insists that Umiko tell her of places she has not yet seen, but may yet come to dominate. As Umiko tells of the cities, the women develop a relationship and consider their options.

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Genre:
piece, work in progress

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Isabella Dreams the New World

Synopsis:
imagination of what longing created this new world, what moody hopes and darkness beget its greed, racism and misogyny

Notes:
Ohio theatre Project

1st Produced:
New York    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
in Best Stage Scenes and Best Men's Stage Monologues (Smith & Kraus), 1993
in "New World Plays", NoPassport Press   -

Music:
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Genre:
Tragicomedy Tragedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Manna

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1st Published:
Heresies 18, l985   -

Music:
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Mother's Little Helper

Synopsis:
Part monologue, part rant, Mother's Little Helper is a meditation on motherhood and the state of the world: Champagne, who has a seven-year-old daughter, ponders the best way to prepare her child for a future that looks more and more perilous in this post-9/11, Bush-ashcroft regime.
nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
New York Ice Factory    2003

Organisations:
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1st Published:
Performance Research, "Generation" issue, vol. 9, no.3, Sept. 2004   -

Music:
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Genre:
performance piece Piece

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My Nebraska

Synopsis:
a spin on Willa Cather's My antonia, in light of the contemporary farm crisis

Notes:
reading At New York theater Workshop

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Organisations:
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1st Published:
in "New World Plays", NoPassport Press   -

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Genre:
epic with music

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Sarah Bernhardt Meets Her Waterloo

Synopsis:
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Genre:
12 min One act

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Staying Afloat

Synopsis:
This is part of Ice Factory 2010. Sometime in the near future, two women and a polar bear find themselves trapped on a melting ice floe and strive to co-exist in a world of shrinking options. With birth, death, songs and movement.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Ohio theatre
66 Wooster Street, New York, NY 10012    07 Jul 2010

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Tiny Lights

Synopsis:
TINY LIGHTS: Memory?s Storehouse/Infinite Miniature is a theatrical collaboration containing dual solos by playwrights/performers Lenora Champagne (Memory?s Storehouse) and Lizzie Olesker (Infinite Miniature). TINY LIGHTS presents an intimate yet heightened look at the richness of memory and story contained within everyday objects and gestures. Incorporating elements of Object theater, gestural dance and poetic text, TINY LIGHTS unfolds intimately, with the audience seated on stage at the New Ohio theatre. Using minimally technical, ordinary household elements (lamps, clotheslines, a portable record player, a suitcase, and a wig), TINY LIGHTS returns after a highly successful run at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn. the 90-minute performance examines the small things in ones life while revealing the unexpectedly cosmic. the landscape of the body, domestic memories and personal history converge via the lost rooms we live in.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
written by Lenora Champagne, Lizzie Olesker

1st Produced:
The New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street, New York    17 May 2012

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Genre:
piece

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Tourist's Guide To the Big Easy, A

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1st Published:
Italics Mine, Spring 2004   -

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Traces/Fades

Traces/Fades
Lost traditions. Memory gaps. Lessons forgotten. action and images shift in the mind of a woman with alzheimer's, flickering from past to present, from her daughter's home to the nursing home. Who are we when we can't remember? an intergenerational meditation on the fluid nature of identity and our national inability to remember history. With original music and video
- press release

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY    2008

Organisations:
Ice Factory festival from Soho Think Tank

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Music:
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Genre:
Piece

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Male:  1            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Wants

Synopsis:
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1st Published:
excerpted in Women and Performance Journal, 19, 1999   -

Music:
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Way To the River, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Published:
Between C & D, Winter l985   -

Music:
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Winter Heat

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Published:
Poetry Project Newsletter 126,April-May l987   -

Music:
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With You, The Rest Of

Synopsis:
three women, affected by the Gulf War, try to make sense of the world

Notes:
Downtown Art Co

1st Produced:
New York    -

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
One act

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Women In Research

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
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Organisations:
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1st Published:
(excerpt), Heresies 17, l984   -

Music:
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