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HOPE MCINTYRE
Nationality: English
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Literary Agent: Playwrights Guild of Canada
CAROLINE UPCHER aka Hope McIntyre was born in London and, as the daughter of a British army officer, grew up in Holland, Germany, the Sudan and Paris before returning to school in England. At eighteen, she was a junior literary agent in London before working in the film industry as a script editor and production assistant for twelve years. Her subsequent publishing career has included being Editorial Director at Pan/Macmillan, Random House UK, Heinemann, Fourth Estate, and in New York she was editorial consultant for Miramax Books. She now edits freelance for HarperCollins, New York. She is the author of fourteen novels, most recently of mysteries written under the name Hope McIntyre. She is also the author of SWAN, the controversial novel published in 1994, written under a pseudonym for the supermodel Naomi Campbell. Her journalism has appeared in The Times, The Observer, the Evening Standard, Mirabella, GQ and other Conde Nast titles. She lives in Exmoor, Devon and Rhinebeck, NY . [photo credit Betina Laplante]
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Femfest 2012: Staging Identity In Winnipeg
2012
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Top of PageHave Mercy
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Can murder be an act of love? Based on a true story, "Have Mercy" explores a case of infanticide as a result of incest. Using excerpts from actual court documents, newspaper articles and letters to the minister of justice the piece also explores the community's reaction to the events. Ultimately, through the relationship between mother and daughter "Have Mercy" explores the journey to healing and forgiveness.
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Brandon University Theatre
2004
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Drama, full-length
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Male: 9 Female: 18 Other: doubling 6 female and 3 male
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Top of PageHunger
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Jesse is on a hunger strike to protest the disappearance of her husband. the play delves into her inner mind as she battles the GuatemAlan government, as well as her own guilt and loss.
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Sarasvati Productions
1998
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Playwrights Union of Canada, Toronto, -
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Drama One Act
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Top of PageJail Baby
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The play was created through drama sessions with criminalized women, and tells the story of women behind bars.
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written by Cairn Moore and Hope McIntyre
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University Of Winnipeg Asper Centre For Theatre And Film, Winnipeg, Mb (Canada)
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Sarasvati Productions
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Scirocco Press -
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Drama
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Top of PageRevisioning
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Three women are brought together on a convict ship traveling to the New World. After great hardship, only one finds a new life at the end of the journey. This piece uses movement, slides and a unique theatrical structure in order to examine parts of the past that are not taught in history classes.
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Sarasvati Productions
1999
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Drama One Act
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Top of PageTruama
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the effects of a high school shooting rampage are examined through the eyes of two mothers, one must cope with the death of her son and the other must somehow accept her child as murderer
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Theatre In The Raw
2000
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Playwrights Union of Canada, Toronto, -
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Drama One Act
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