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ELIZABETH ORNDORFF
Nationality: USA
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Elizabeth Orndorff worked in advertising, public relations and publications production before turning to fiction and playwriting. She has degrees from Grove City College (PA), University of Georgia, and University of Kentucky, where she taught journalism while in graduate school. Her play Death by Darkness won the International Mystery Writers Festival in 2007 and the Southern Playwrights Competition in 2008. In 2009 she studied with Lee Blessing at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, partially funded by a Kentucky Arts Council Award. Also in 2009, her play Aidan's Gift won the Kentucky Theatre Association's playwriting award. In July her comedy the Dillinger DilEmma ran at Pioneer Playhouse in Danville. She recently won a Wurlitzer Foundation Fellowship to live and write plays in Taos, New Mexico. She lives in Danville, Kentucky, with her husband, Robert.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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Aidan's Gift Death by DarknessAidan's Gift
Synopsis:
Father AIDAN, a Benedictine monk, is wandering in a spiritual desert when the new ABBOT assigns him a junior monk who was asked to leave the Abbey of Gethsemani for unknown reasons. the only clue in his personnel file is about a remarkable gift: his voice. When Aidan discovers Brother John Mark's extraordinary voice, a tenor the likes of which neither Aidan nor anyone else at the abbey has ever heard, Aidan begins to fall in love-with John Mark's voice.
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the young monk with the singing voice needs to be About 25. Father Aidan About 50, the Abott in his sixties
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Synopsis:
On a spring day in 1842, slave guide STEPHEN BISHOP, leads the latest party of curiosity-seekers into the great Star Chamber of Mammoth Cave.. Before the evening is over, JOHN HUFFMAN is unmasked as the writer CHARLES DICKENS and is accused of the murder of the REV. HORACE MALLORY. More lies are uncovered and secrets are buried before Stephen once again takes charge, ordering at gunpoint the future of each traveler.
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Set is the star chamber of Mammoth Cave in 1842, several boulders And rocks surround the clearing, which is framed by stlalactites And stalagmites. DeathBy Darkness won the 2007 International Mystery Writer;'s Festival And the 2008 Southern Playwright's Award .
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Riverpark Center, Owensboro, (Ky)
12 Jun 2007
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International Mystery Writers
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Drama/mystery
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