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IRENE ZIEGLER (1955 - )
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Irene Ziegler's solo performance play, Rules of the Lake won the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award for Drama. Her musical, Full Plate Collection, had a reading at Barrow Group, and was produced at Barksdale Theatre and North Street Theatre. Her short plays have been produced at diverse venues throughout the country. Irene is also an actor, voiceover talent, and novelist. She has performed regionally in numerous plays and has had recurring roles or guest starred in many notable TV series and films. She is also the voice you love to hate on your cell phone's GPS. Irene is the author of two works of fiction: Rules of the Lake and Ashes to Water. Irene is the proud recipient of the Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts in the category of Words. She is not related to Tom or Anna Ziegler, both wonderful playwrights with a great last name. member of Dramatist Guild of America
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Full Plate Collection Miss Palmer's School of Penmanship and Civil Behavior Out in the Open Rules of the LakeFull Plate Collection
Synopsis:
Full Plate Collection, a comedy with music, brings to life five of America's female cultural icons. The fictional equivalents of Rosie the Riveter, Betty Crocker, Betty Boop, Barbie, and Aunt Jemima make up a five-piece plate collection being hawked on the daytime shopping channel, Impulse Buying At Home. As each plate is introduced, the adorning icon speaks volumes about America, the universal condition, and the efforts women have made to effectively change society for the better.
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With double And triple casting, 12 Actresses play the 25 female characters represented in the play. There Are three songs And incidental music throughout.
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Barksdale Theatre, Richmond, VA 11 Mar 2010
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Barksdale Theatre
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Comedy with music
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Male: - Female: 12+ Other: -
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Top of PageMiss Palmer's School of Penmanship and Civil Behavior
Synopsis:
In Miss Palmer's School of Penmanship And Civil Behavior, Vidalia Palmer believes that the decline of civility in America is linked to the decline of our national handwriting. She addresses a class of "civility offenders" who have been ordered by the Civility Justice System to learn proper penmanship as part of their social rehabilitation. Miss Palmer's teaching methods, however, are anything but traditional. Worlds collide when an ill-mannered Congressman advocates for the elimination of cursive instruction, and Miss Palmer is forced to see the handwriting on the wall. Ultimately, a wounded war veteran who understands the link between handwriting and civil behavior, guides Miss Palmer toward her next calling.
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The illustrations in the play Are by Barry Scanlon, And Are Available from the Author.
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Full-length Comedy in One Act
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Male: 2 Female: 3 Other: 1 voiceover
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Top of PageOut in the Open
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Out in the Open will be part of the Modern-Day Griot Theatre Company's reading series, "See, Hear, Taste, Touch." The event will take place on May 25, 2012, in The Great Room At 138 South Oxford Space in Brooklyn, NY
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Play/Drama
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Top of PageRules of the Lake
Synopsis:
Rules of the Lake is a semi-autobiographical one-person play about growing up on a lake in "pre-Disney" Florida in the 1960's. The playwright's alter ego, Annie, recounts a Florida childhood as a mermaid wanna-be. Guided by her father's lake rules (No Swimming Alone, No Diving in Unknown Waters, etc.), Annie is driven by an obsessive desire to breathe underwater, believing it to be the key to becoming a mermaid. Throughout the play, Widow Lake shimmers with changeable symbolism--sometimes as Annie's haven from worldly problems, sometimes as an unfathomably dangerous place--but always offering a psychological reflection of Annie's coming of age.
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Winner of the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award in Drama
1st Produced:
Theatre IV's Little Theatre Feb 1996
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Theatre IV
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