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Donna Latham

DONNA LATHAM

  
Nationality:    USA
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Donna Lathams been making up stuff, acting it out, and writing it down forever. Her plays have been produced coast to coast and across many pondsall the way to Jarkarta. And We Will Share the Sky was a Kennedy Center Regional Finalist for the David Mark Cohen Playwriting Award and recipient of the National Theatre for Young Audiences Playwriting Award from the University of Central Missouri. Paddy and the Mermaid received an Honorable Mention Award from the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild. Selected credits: Glacial Decline was a finalist in the Gary Garrison Play Festival. Grievances and Whirligigs was part of the Biscuit Tin Reading Series in Belfast and had readings at No Shame Athens in Georgia and the EstroGenius Festival at Manhattan Theatre Source. A Midnight Clear: The Christmas Truce of 1914 was a semi-finalist, Dionysus Cup Festival of New Plays, Polarity Ensemble Theatre Company, Chicago, and premiered at the Batavia Arts Council in the Chicago area. The Haunted Widow Lincoln, which went up at the Batavia Arts Council and Rover Dramawerks in Plano, Texas, was a semi-finalist for the Playwrights First Award and the Vittum Prize. It had readings with the Bechdel Group in NYC and Houston Scriptwriters. Coyotes Moon went up at the La MaMa Theatre 50 Block Party in New York. Three by the Sea received its world premiere at the Looking Glass Theatre in New York.  Donnas plays are licensed with Chicago Dramaworks, YouthPLAYS, Brooklyn Publishers, and Heure. Donna is a resident playwright at Rising Sun Performance Company NYC

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

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         And We Will Share the Sky         Be Bold, Be Bold         Blouse That Swallowed Roma's Head, The         Bob's Your Uncle         Corner Critics         Do these Jeans Make My Butt Look Massive?         Glacial Decline         Gonna Need to See Some ID         Grievances and Whirligigs         Haunted Widow Lincoln, The         He Said/She Said         Interrogative!         Kerplunk!         Lunatic: The Haunted Widow         Myface         Paddy And the Mermaids         Proverbs         Sack of Grievances         She Who         Skullduggery         Three By the Sea         Train Track Ghosts, The         You're Hired!         You're Pulling My Leg
And We Will Share the Sky

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a finalist for the Kennedy Center David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award.

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Be Bold, Be Bold

Be Bold, Be Bold
Lady Mary is betrothed to Mr Fox. He has to go away but on his return they will be wed. One day Lady Mary walks over to Mr Fox's estate. Over the entrance there is an inscription "Be bold, be bold". She enters and discovers a deadly secret - Mr Fox is a serial killer

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Blouse That Swallowed Roma's Head, The

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Choreography by Carlos Neto. Original music by Brett Thomas Miro

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Stage 72/The Triad. New York, NY 10023     03 Oct 2014

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Bob's Your Uncle

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Reading At The 3V Theatre In NYC     22 Oct 2013

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Corner Critics

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Do these Jeans Make My Butt Look Massive?

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Glacial Decline

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Pandora Theatre's Vox Feminina, Sugar Land, Texas     12 Apr 2013

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Gonna Need to See Some ID

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Vero Voce Theatre, Illinois     12 Mar 2015

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Grievances and Whirligigs

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Like love, empathy, and compassion, violence begins at home. When Mary Claire visits her parents after a lengthy absence, she lugs her ever-present Sack of Grievances. Attempted murder, stuffed emotions, and toxic chili roil to the surface when Mary Claire's abusive father threatens her daughter

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This play received development and a staged reading at Accidental Theatre in Belfast in July, 2013

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No Shame Athens     03 Nov 2013

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Haunted Widow Lincoln, The

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Chicago Dramaworks. Semifinalist for Playwrights First.

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He Said/She Said

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Touch Me Philly Productions. Pennsylvania     01 Apr 2015

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Interrogative!

Interrogative!
Grandma's ring goes missing. Grandpa dresses up as Sherlock Holmes to investigate

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Kerplunk!

Kerplunk!
Jewel, Adie and Bill are making breakfast for their grandparents

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Lunatic: The Haunted Widow

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Lincoln, Rover Dramawerks/365 Women Playwriting, Plano, Texas     23/2015

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Myface

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Paddy And the Mermaids

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Stage Coach Players, Dekalb, Illinois     01 Jun 2009

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Proverbs

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Sack of Grievances

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Evergreen Theatre Ensemble, Naperville, Illinois     05 Apr 2013

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She Who

She Who
Gramps cannot find his book on Egypt. Bill says that she borrowed it - but there are three she's in the family

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Skullduggery

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Scriptwriters Houston 10x10     07 Aug 2015

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Three By the Sea

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Looking Glass Theatre, New Yor     05 Mar 2011

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Train Track Ghosts, The

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You're Hired!

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Gallery Theatre, West Chicago     25 Sep 2015

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You're Pulling My Leg

You're Pulling My Leg
An Italian visitor is confused by English idioms

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