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MELISSA COOPER
Nationality: USA
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Literary Agent: Beacon Artists Agency
Melissa Cooper. Melissa Cooper's most recent play, Little Medea, was commissioned and produced at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where it won the 2008 Macy's New Play Prize for Young audiences. Other plays and adaptations, including Mirandolina, antigone Now, andthe Sternheim Project, have been produced around the country at Dallas Theater Center, Portland Stage Company, east Los Angeles Classic Theater, San Diego Repertory, and Cincinnati Playhouse. Ms. Cooper's ventriloquial performance pieces, some co-written with eric Overmyer, have been seen in NYC at Coney Island usa, Limbo Lounge, West Bank Cafe, PS 122's avant-garde-arama, BaCa Downtown, and Cornelia Street Cafe, as well as Seattle's empty Space. Ms. Cooper served as Resident Dramaturg and artistic associate at the Dallas Theater Center, where she co-founded and produced the Big D Festival of the Unexpected to support new and experimental Theater. at Portland Stage Company, she created and produced "a little festival of the unexpected." Ms. Cooper's Dramaturgy includes a wide range of plays, from the Obie award-winning premiere of Mac Wellman's Terminal Hip to Salzburg Marionette Theater's new production of the Sound of Music, directed by Richard Hamburger. Ms. Cooper is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts MFA acting Program. She lives in New York City, where she teaches acting at Marymount Manhattan College and serves as New Play Consultant for echo Theatre in Dallas.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Antigone Now Little Medea Mirandolina My Hideous Progeny Red Badge of Variations Sternheim Project, TheAntigone Now
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In the midst of a bombed-out city still feeling the aftershocks of war, the rebellious and intense antigone defies her uncle to bury her disgraced brother. This contemporary response to the myth of antigone brings powerful, modern prose to an ancient and universal story.
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Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, Tx, United States) 2003
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50-60 min Play/Drama
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Male: 1 Female: 3 Other: 1 male, 3 females (4-11 actors possible: 1-9 males, 2-10 females)
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Top of PageLittle Medea
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Winner: Macy's New Play Prize for Young Audiences; Finalist 2009 Bonderman/Indiana Repertory theater
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Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park 2008
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Top of PageMirandolina
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Original Playwright - Carlo Goldoni (La Locandiera)
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Portland Stage Company 1991
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Genre:
Classic comedy adaptation
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Top of PageMy Hideous Progeny
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Claire, a noted feminist scholar, is at odds with May, her brilliant and rebellious teenaged daughter who is obsessed with Frankenstein's monster. Past and present interweave as Mary Shelley meets her monster in the form of May's wise-cracking childhood doll.
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Male: - Female: 4 Other: Doll/puppet
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Top of PageRed Badge of Variations
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Five soldiers in a remote outpost look at their lives
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Rehearsed reading at Central Reform Congregation, Saint Louis May 2015
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Top of PageSternheim Project, The
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adapted from two plays by Carl Sternheim
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translated by Paul Lampert And Kate Sullivan, Adapted by Melissa Cooper, Paul Lampert And Kate Sullivan
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comedy adaptation
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