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CATHERINE MUSCHAMP

  (1918 - 2008)
Nationality:    USA
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Catherine Muschamp who lived in France, was a member of the Society of Authors, a Lifetime Member of the Dramatist's Guild, New York, a Societaire of the Society des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, Paris, and under the name of Kate Lloyd she was a life member of British Actors Equity. She began her Theatre career on the "Hull, Hell and Halifax" circuit (all with the "H" dropped) at the age of 15, a gofer for her uncle, Fred Culpit, a well known illusionist and in 1939 at the outbreak of war and when the act was put to bed, she enlisted into the British Army, then commissioned, she was transferred to the Indian Army to serve as an Indian Army Observer, a combat war correspondent, in Italy, Greece, Burma, Thailand, Malaya and in the last year of the war, and after the war in 1946, was inserted into hostile territory on four occasions: by a Royal Navy tank landing ship onto the beach of the Corinth Gulf and getting to Athens by inserting herself and her Baluchi Pathan driver and Jeep (and a borrowed German trailer) into a German convoy going that way, and was still in Athens for the revolution; into Burma; by Lysander 'plane into Thailand; and in 1946, aboard a French sloop, "Annamite" into French Indo-ChinA. It was when returning to India after the war that she went legit by joining Geoffrey Kendal's itinerant company, "Shakespeareana", in Calcutta then, after eventually getting back to the UK in 1950, had her first play the VELVET MOSS produced at the Watergate in the Strand, the play set in Athens during the Greek revolution and written there at night in available cellars. Since then, she has had more than forty plays produced from village halls to London's West End and New York, and they include the BEHEADING at London's Apollo Theatre, then the KILLING GAME at the same Theatre, and almost every English speaking country in the world, including, as MANEUVERS, in New York, followed by German and Flemish language productions, and a radio version in Maltese, followed by another production in English with Edward and Peter Woodward. With BRIDGE OF SIGHS she received the Foyle Award for the best new play in the English language when produced at the Belgrade, Coventry, to be followed by a production at Cleveland, Ohio when she was there as playwright in residence, then in French when it was produced at Le Rond-Point in Paris by Jean-Louis Barrault. Currently, her one character play, MOtheR OF the PRIDE, on the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, with Eileen Page as Eleanor had a five star rating at the Edinburgh Festival, has been touring the UK for almost five years and opens at the Jermyn Street Theatre on August 30, but prior to that the same play with Chapelle Jaffe as Eleanor, opens in Toronto on August 18, followed by a seven month tour of Canada, with the rights sold for production as a play in the usA. Also, this play is in rehearsal in French for production in Quebec.

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

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        Eleanor Of Aquitaine: Mother Of the Pride         Mother of the Pride