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Lella Heins

LELLA HEINS  

 Nationality:    USA
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Lella Heins was invited to join the actors Studio Playwrights Unit in 1988. Her plays and adaptations have been produced in New York, London and Milan. In Italy she is guest teacher and director with I Mercenari , a Theater company based in Milan. In New York she taught writing workshops at Barnard College of Columbia University, the Learning annex and privately. She has been a writing facilitator at the Field, a non-profit artists' organization in Manhattan and associate artistic director of the Magellan Theater Project. In 2001 she was awarded a writing Fellowship by the Sacatar Foundation, an American Foundation with a center in Bahia, Brasil. Her latest production, "Lion Taming in Miami and Other Views of Life", an anthology of six of her one-act plays, was produced by Medicine Show Theater in Manhattan in 2003. "Oriundina, the Siren of Itaparica", was awarded a grant by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2004.

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

         Jean         Lion Taming In Miami         Oriundina         theory Of Color, The

Jean

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Life of Jean Rhys

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Playwrights Theatre, east Hampton    08 Aug 1997

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Lion Taming In Miami

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Medicine Show theatre
549 West 52nd Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10019    2002

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Oriundina

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In the play ORIUNDINa a group of children and teenagers on the island of Itaparica, Brasil, rally to rescue the lost tail of the mermaid Oriundina, personal assistant to the goddess of the sea Yemanja', whose annual feast she is in charge of overseeing. By joining forces, using their wits and magic intervention they try to defeat the evil schemes of the local busybody and an ambitious marine biologist from Rio.

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theory Of Color, The

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the theory of Color tells the story of elena, a worldly Italian-born artist who finds herself transplanted from New York City to a small, sleepy, remote island when her husband Tom accepts a new job as the town doctor. arriving at the end of the summer vacation season, Tom and elena soon meet several of the local 'townies' including a priest with a penchant for the bottle, a schizophrenic who's convinced that the other townspeople are out to kill her, and a young man experiencing serious jitters about his upcoming wedding. While Tom is enthralled with the 'normalcy' of small-town life, elena is driven to distraction by the depression and unhappiness that she sees around her. as the long winter months drag by, she starts to realize that Tom may not be the man she thought he was
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Medicine Show Theatre ensemble

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Play/Drama

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