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Carrie Fisher

CARRIE FISHER

  (1952 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    Agency for the Performing Arts  

Carrie Fisher: actress, writer, and daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, made her film debut in Shampoo and became a cultural icon playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy. She starred in such hits as When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and Her Sisters, and The Blues Brothers. Her television credits include "Laverne & Shirley" and "Sex and the City," and her appearance in "30 Rock" was Emmy Award-nominated. Ms. Fisher's bestselling novel, Postcards from the Edge, netted her the Los Angeles PEN Literary Award for Best First Novel, and her Postcards screenplay for the Oscar-nominated film starred Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep. Three novels and two memoirs have followed: Delusions of Grandma, Surrender the Pink, The Best Awful, Wishful Drinking, and Shockaholic. Her one-woman Broadway show Wishful Drinking was filmed for HBO and was Emmy-nominated. Ms. Fisher will reprise her role of Princess Leia in the much anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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below is a list of Carrie Fisher's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         In Your Arms         Wishful Drinking

In Your Arms

Synopsis:
A company that has amassed an astounding 18 Tony Awards, 4 Pulitzer Prizes, 6 Pulitzer finalist distinctions, 3 Emmys, and 2 Academy Awards joins forces at the Globe for an exuberant world premiere dance-theatre musical! Ten of Americas best theatrical storytellers (the minds behind such hits as The Full Monty, Driving Miss Daisy, M. Butterfly, and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike) join director-choreographer Christopher Gattelli (Newsies, The King and I) and composer Stephen Flaherty (Ragtime) to create a ravishing evening that glides, leaps, and twirls through the giddy extremes of romantic love. This unique event ranges across eras and cultures and tells its stories through the universal language of dance, from classical ballet to swing to tap to ballroom to jazz to flamenco and more. In Your Arms is as intoxicating as a sunset cocktail and as exhilarating as a first kiss.

Notes:
Music by Stephen Flaherty; Vignettes by Douglas Carter Beane, Nilo Cruz, Christopher Durang, Carrie Fisher, David Henry Hwang, Rajiv Joseph, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Lynn Nottage, and Alfred UhryDirection and Choreography by Christopher Gattelli; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Conceived by Christopher Gattelli and Jennifer Manocherian

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Genre:
dance theatre

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Male:  11            Female:  12            Other:  -

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Wishful Drinking

Synopsis:
Surprisingly, Fisher opens and closes her reminiscing monologue with a song. I hadn't a clue she could sing - duh, consider the genes! - and I'm amazed that she hasn't appeared in a Broadway or film musical in all these years. as with Postcards from the edge, for which she also wrote the screenplay for the hit film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine, Wishful Drinking is unabashedly autobiographical. Fisher, daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher, is a sort of demi-Hollywood royalty herself. Not as well known as her illustrious parents, perhaps, nevertheless she grew up breathing the rarified air of celebrity. Kevin Bacon, move aside for a fast-paced game of five degrees of Carrie Fisher, for in fact the evening comes complete with a zany genealogy-inspired lecture as Fisher struggles to determine if her daughter is related to a prospective suitor, such are the confusions of celebrity couplings.
- Gary McMillan, DC theatre Scene

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1st Produced:
Arena Stage At Lincoln Theatre, Washington Dc    2008

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Jonathan Reinis Production in association with Berkeley Repertory Theatre

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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