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Current Work
I'm currently performing MARTHA MITCHELL, a monologue with songs,written by Rosanna Alfaro during the Reagan regime. Watergate, Irangate: Nixon's dirty tricksters were lying and spying and passing out secret funds again. Martha is timely once more. New tricks, same old story.
My UNDER SIEGE is also timely. Based on interviews with abortion counselors, my play celebrates the courage with which women supported each other when their reproductive choices were threatened by guns and bombs. But choice was our right. Any day now, the law may change. American women hold fewer seats in their legislature than women elsewhere, and seem powerless to defend their rights. Under Siege was intended to become part of our democratic dialogue, but it has never been produced in this country. I'd donate the script to anyone willing to bring its voices to life.
In 2005 I wrote 5 new one acts, including THE 11:08-- THE OLDEST ESTABLISHED PERMANENT ROLLING CAST PARTY, presented at the Last Frontier in Valdez; and completed the book for a musical, HAUNTING HAWTHORNES. In spring of 2006 I'll appear in TALKING TO TERRORISTS at Sugan. |
Short Bio
I’ve been doing theatre since age five-- mostly in church basements. For a quarter of a century the basement was Boston’s Arlington Street Church, where I wrote and staged chancel drama, political satire, Medieval Mysteries, Goddess rituals, and I performed in modern musicals and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
My writing career high point may have been the summer of 1990, when my play set in a Boston abortion clinic, “Under Siege” (aka “Choices”) was picked for the Sundance Lab, and I rubbed shoulders with Tony Kushner. Acting high points include Olivia in Twelfth Night and the Lady in the Scottish Play; "Martha Mitchell", at the Edinburgh Fringe; and supporting roles in the American premieres of Rona Munro's "Bold Girls", Marina Carr's "Portia Coughlan" and Liz Lockhead's "Perfect Days", all at the SuganTheatre.
Tina Chan has toured “Unbinding Our Lives”, my commissioned script about Chinese-American immigrant women, for a decade. I’ve had productions in England, Ireland, France, Italy, Greece, Germany, New Zealand, India, and South Africa; and more than 150 productions in high schools and colleges in the USA, mostly instigated by students who find my scripts on the Web.
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Honors
Sundance Playwrights Lab, Senior Theatre finalist |
Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations
Dramatists Guild, International Centre for Women Playwrights, Playwrights Platform, Boston StageSource, Write On, Clairvoix
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Artist Location
Newton, MA
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Art forms
Theater, Music, Literary, Film/Video, Dance
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Type of artist
Writer, Performer, Director, Arts Educator, Technical
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General Themes
Aging/Intergenerational, History, Economics/Class, Religion/Spirituality, Feminism/Gender Issues |
Keywords
Art, Aesthetics, Fantasy, G. L. Horton, G L Horton, GL Horton, Geralyn Horton |
| Last updated on January 12th, 2006 |
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