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Joanna Mcclelland Glass

JOANNA MCCLELLAND GLASS

  (1936 - )
Nationality:    Canadian
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Literary Agent:    The Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc  

Joanna McClelland Glass was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her plays have been produced in many North American regional Theatres, as well as in england, Ireland, Australia, and Germany. Her one-act plays, CaNaDIaN GOTHIC and AmericaN MODeRN, were first produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New York City in 1972. aRTICHOKe, starring Colleen Dewhurst, was first produced at Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, in 1974. TO GRaNDMOtheR's HOUSe We GO, starring Eva LeGallienne, was first produced at the alley Theatre, Houston, Texas, moving to Broadway in 1980. PLaY MeMORY, directed by Harold Prince, was first produced at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey, moving to Broadway in 1984. PLaY MeMORY won a Tony award nomination that year. YeSTeRYeaR was originally produced by the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto in 1989. IF We aRe WOMeN premiered in the U.S. in the summer of 1993, at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA. the Canadian premiere was a co-production between the Vancouver Playhouse and Canadian Stage Company, Toronto, 1994. the British premiere was in London, starring Joan Plowright, directed by Richard Olivier. Ms. Glass has written two novels, "Reflections on a Mountain Summer," published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975, and "Woman Wanted," published by St. Martin's Press in 1984. She has adapted both novels into screenplays, for Lorimar Studios and Warner Bros. Woman Wanted was filmed in 1998, starring and directed by Kiefer Sutherland, also starring Holly Hunter and Michael Moriarty. In 1984-85, Ms. Glass was awarded a Rockefeller grant. She was playwright-in-residence at Yale Repertory Theatre. Other grants: the National endowment for the Arts, 1980, and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981. Ms. Glass won the Francesca Primus award in 1994, and the Berrilla Kerr award in 2000. TRYING was first presented by Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago in the spring of 2004; the play won Chicago's prestigious Jefferson award for Best New Play. TRYING was then produced in New York City at the Promenade Theatre, in the fall/winter of 2004-2005. TRYING has now enjoyed over forty productions; with several more plAnned for 2007-2008 at Theatres in both the United States and CanadA. Ms. Glass presently resides in suburban Chicago. Her agent is Barbara Hogenson, 165 West end avenue, New York, N. Y., 10023, Phone: 212-874-8084.

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

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         American Modern         Amsterdam To Budapest         Artichoke         Canadian Gothic         If We Are Women         Jewish Strawberries         Last Chalice         Mrs Dexter And Her Daily         Palmer Park         Play Memory         Santacqua         To Grandmother's House We Go         Trying         Yesteryear

American Modern

Synopsis:
Pat and Mike, an urban couple, find themselves ever more out of touch with the world in which they must live, and with ever less to hold onto and believe in. He toys with the prospect of suicide, and she with the notion of madness, as they reminisce about the events, large and small, which have brought them to where they are. their conversation grows ever more bizarre-and revealing-as they seek to "fill the empty spaces," and to fight back, to survive, against the meaningless which threatens to devour them

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accompanies Canadian Gothic

1st Produced:
Manhatttan Theatre Club, NY    1972

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inCanadian Gothic and American Modern: Two Plays, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York, 1977   -

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Amsterdam To Budapest

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Artichoke

Synopsis:
the scene is the Morley farm, in the prairie country of Saskatchewan, Canada. Margaret and Walter Morley have been estranged for fourteen years, ever since his encounter with a "water witch" resulted in the arrival of his illegitimate daughter, Lily agnes, and led to Walter's banishment to the smokehouse. Margaret has remained in the main house, with'Lily agnes (whom she has raised as her own), and her father, Gramps. they are joined for the summer by Gibson McFarland, Gramps adopted son, now a college professor, who is recovering from a mild nervous breakdown. Gibson's return reopens old wounds and desires, and it is soon apparent (and so reported by two gossipy bachelor neighbours) that Margaret's needs for culture and affection are now being satisfied at last. as summer wanes so must the idyll of Gibson and Margaret, but her transgression, in Walter's eyes, evens the score between them - and as the play ends it is dear that the Morley household, so long divided, will once again know the harmony and love wh

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1st Produced:
Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut    1974

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Dramatists Play Service, NY, 1974   -

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Genre:
Comedy Drama Comedy

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Male:  5            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Canadian Gothic

Synopsis:
Presented on a virtually bare stage, with the characters speaking sometimes to the audience and sometimes to each other, the play uses language of poetic eloquence and incision to illuminate its tale of an ill-fated love affair and the family it destroys. It begins with the evocative memories of the mother and father-a Saskatchewan dentist and his mildly rebellious wife-and then goes on, after the mother's death, to explore the love which blossoms between their daughter and a young Indian. Sadly the romance results in tragedy rather than happiness, leading to the conception of a child out of wedlock, the accidental blinding of the dentist, the jailing of the young Indian and, in the end, a bittersweet accommodation between Father and daughter as they face the long, futile years still left to them.

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accompanies Anerican Modern

1st Produced:
Manhatttan Theatre Club, NY    1972

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1st Published:
Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York, 1972   -

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Drama One act

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  -

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If We Are Women

Synopsis:
Two grandmothers, a daughter, and a granddaughter gather on the deck of a beach house in Connecticut. One grandmother has flown, for the first time, from the Canadian prairie. She is an illiterate woman whose parents were homesteading pioneers. "If only I had gotten my eighth grade diploma." Her daughter is a novelist whose lover died recently. "If only I had a college degree." the second grandmother has driven up from Pennsylvania. She is an agnostic Jewish intellectual with a Master's degree. "If only I had gone to Oxford." the granddaughter is eighteen and is slated to go to Yale in the autumn. after staying out all night with a young man, she arrives on the scene to announce a reversal of plans. the three older women discuss their pasts and presents poetically, poignantly and humorously as they attempt to pass down the wisdom of their years. When the granddaughter disregards all that she hears, the prairie grandmother observes that "every time a kid is born, we start from zero."

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1st Produced:
Canadian Stage Co., Toronto    1997

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1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1994   -

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Comedy Drama Comedy

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Jewish Strawberries

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1st Produced:
Wayne State Iniversity Workshop, Detroit, Michigan    1971

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Last Chalice

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Full Length Play/Drama

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Mrs Dexter And Her Daily

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open in Vancouver in 2010 And then will play the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario

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Vancouver    2010

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Palmer Park

Synopsis:
set in Detroit

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It will be produced over the next 2 years in each of the Drama schools At: Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, MI, Ohio State U. U of Pennsylvania, Northwestern, U of Illinois, U of Iowa, U of Wisconsin, U of Minnesota, U of Indiana, And Perdue.

1st Produced:
Stratford Shakespearean Festival    2008

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Play Memory

Synopsis:
a Canadian salesman and Father determined to drink himself to death following his black market activities during world War II

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1st Produced:
Mccarter Theatre, Princeton    1984

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Samuel French, London, 1984   -

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Male:  8            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Santacqua

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first stage play

1st Produced:
Herbert Berghof Playwrights Unit, NY    1969

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Three act Play/Drama

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To Grandmother's House We Go

Synopsis:
grandmother lives in a large Connecticut Victorian house with various relatives, with more staying for Thanksgiving, all have requests to make of the matriarch but inflation has taken its toll on their wealth

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1st Produced:
Alley Theatre, Houston, Tx; Broadway    1980

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1st Published:
Samuel French, NY, 1980   -

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Genre:
Serious comedy Comedy

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Male:  2            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Trying

Synopsis:
Trying is a two-character play based on the author's experience during 1967-1968 when she worked for Francis Biddle at his home in Washington, D.C. Judge Biddle had been attorney General of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt. after the war, President Truman named him Chief Judge of the American Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. the play is about a young Canadian girl and an old, Philadelphia aristocrat, 'trying' to understand each other in what Biddle knows is the final year of his life.

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1st Produced:
Wayne State University Workshop, Detroit, Michigan    1971

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1st Published:
Playwrights Canada Press, 2005   -

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Genre:
One act

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Yesteryear

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Canadian Stage Co., Toronto

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Playwrights Canada Press, 1998   -

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Genre:
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