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| Ruth Margraff has been called a leader in the new opera, music/theater movement in America and just received her 4th Rockefeller Foundation commission with Big Red Media, a NYSCA Individual Artist award, a Fulbright new opera award (Greece) and was selected for a CultureConnect envoy to Calcutta (India). Her work has been developed and produced by Hourglass Group/Century Center Ballroom/PS122, BAM Next Wave and BAMCafe, the Apollo, CAMI, HERE/Harp, Public, Cooper Union, Lincoln Ctr, Kitchen, NYTW, Guggenheim Museum, etc. (NYC); internationally at the 2005 Festivalul International de Teatru de la Sibiu Festival (Transylvania, ROMANIA), 2005 Karantena Performing Arts Festival (Dubrovnik, CROATIA), Artemovszk 38 Flagship on the Danube River, Trafó-Kortars Muveszetek Haza, Hungarian National Theatre/Dramaturgs' League (Budapest, HUNGARY), 2005 Poisti Vlna Next Wave Festival, Prague Theatre Institute (Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC), 2001 Beogradski Letnji Festival/Countess Ljubice Museum, Rex Centre and Dah Teatar (Belgrade, SERBIA), Bijenale Vizuelnih Umetnosti/Ukrstanja 10th Biennial of Visual Arts (Pancevo, Yugoslavia) 2002 Bolshoi Zal American Series/Library for Foreign Literature |  |
| and 2003 Novaja International New Drama Festival/Golden Mask Association/Moscow Art Theater (Moscow, RUSSIA); 2003 Rebetiko Music Conference/Melina Mercouri Hall (Isle of Hydra, GREECE), Theater Nohgaku/National Noh Theater of Japan (Tokyo, JAPAN), Proximity Lab/Canadadian Council (Vancouver, CANADA) throughout Great Britain and nationally at Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Co. Winter Showcase (Kentucky), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/Rosenthal Plaza (Ohio); Playwrights' Center, Red Eye, Walker Art Center (Mpls); Salvage Vanguard, Rude Mechanicals, Fronterafest, Nerve Dance Co., Deborah Hay Dance Co., Sharirworks (Austin); Seattle Rep. (Seattle); Northeastern University (Boston); University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (Alabama); Undermain, Club Dada (Dallas); Perishable, AS220 (Providence); Iowa Playwrights' Workshop (Iowa City); Bottom's Dream, Audrey Skirball-Kenis, Overtone Industries (Los Angeles), etc.. Ruth’s work is published by Kendall/Hunt(University of Arizona), Watson Gutpill/Backstage Books, American Theatre, Theater Forum, Dramatist, Johns Hopkins, Manchester, NuMuse Anthology/Brown, Chain/Temple, Epoch/Cornell, Conjunctions/Bard, Autonomedia, etc. Ruth has been the recipient of grants, awards and honors from the Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Theatre Communications Group/ITI, Bellagio , NEA/TCG, Arts International, Trust for Mutual Understanding of New York, CultureConnect, TCG/Metlife, etc. and has taught at the University of Texas/Michener Center, Brown University, Fordham, Yale School of Drama, Allihies Language & Art Centre (Ireland) etc. Ruth is an alumnus of New Dramatists and HERE’s Harp artist residency, core member of the Playwrights’ Center and co-leader of a Theatre Without Borders initiative on theater & peacebuilding with Brandeis University’s Slifka Coexistence International. She is represented by Susan Schulman Literary Agency. | |
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| http://www.nikosbrisco.com/CafeAntarsia/html/bio_ruth.html | |
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♦2001-2005 Visiting Lecturer of Playwriting Yale University graduate school MFA program in Playwriting, Yale School of Drama ♦2001-2003 Visiting Associate Professor of Playwriting Brown University, English/Playwriting/n.k.a. Program of Literary Arts ♦1999-2003 Ast. Professor of Playwriting University of Texas at Austin/ Michener Center for Writers • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, U.S. Department of State CultureConnect Calcutta special envoy, teaching 4 workshops with PeaceWorks/Seagull Foundation for the Arts, Swayam women against domestic violence, Kalam-marginalized youth from shelters, slums and red light district, Calcutta International School, etc. (Calcutta, India) Fall, 2005 • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, University of Athens/Fulbright (Greece) Spring 2006 • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Aristotle University of Thessoloniki/Fulbright (Greece) Spring 2006 • Guest Lecturer/Adjunct, University of Rochester, International Theater Program (NY) Spring 2006 • Guest Artist Residency, University of Iowa/Iowa Playwrights’ Workshop (Iowa) 2/06, 3/05 • Guest Artist Residency, Dah Teatar Research Centre in Belgrade (Serbia) 10/04, 10/05 • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Drew University theater class (New Jersey) 11/05 • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Trafo Center for the Arts (Budapest, Hungary) 9/05 • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Prague Theater Institute/New Dramatists Interplay: Eastern Europe, (Czech Republic) 10/04 • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Hourglass Group “Proscenium Delirious” (NYC) 4/04, 11/04, 5/05, 9/05 • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Pataphysics/The Flea Theater 12/05 • Guest Lecturer, Fordham University/Lincoln Center “Advanced Playwriting” Spring 2004 and “Introduction to the Theater” Fall 2004 (NY) • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Allihies Language & Art Center, (Allihies on Beara Penninsula of West Cork, Ireland) Summer, 2004 http://www.allihies.ie/events/playwriting.html • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Austin Scriptworks (Austin, TX) 4/04 • Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “The Actor in the Text” with Prof. Daniel Alexander Jones (MA) 4/02 • Guest Lecturer, Rhode Island School of Design “Screenwriting/Animation” with filmmaker Laura Calella(RI) 3/02 • Guest Lecturer, University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa on Night Vision with graduate dramaturgs and playwrights with Professor Paul Castegna (AL) 3/01 • Guest Lecturer/Master Class, Audrey Skirball Kenis playwriting workshop on comedy and Tragedy also presenting lecture “The Stadium & Theater in Punctum at the Beloved and Life-like Torso of Antinoos” inspired by Teatrou Eros conference in Athens and Delphi, Greece; (Los Angeles, CA) 10/00 • Guest Lecturer, New York University "Music Theater Program" to graduates librettists/lyricists and composers on Night Vision (NYC) 2/00 • Adjunct Professor of English, Long Island University (Brooklyn and Clearpool/Crown Heights) 1997-1999 • Adjunct Professor of English St. Joseph’s College (Brooklyn) 1997-1998 • Adjunct Professor of English, Borough of Manhattan Community College Fall, 1996 • Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, “On the Musical, Playwriting and New Opera” Malaspina College & University/E-Script International 1996-1998 • Writing Center Tutor, part-time, Brown University Writing Center /Rockefeller Library 1993-1995 EDUCATION: | |
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* 2006 Hedgebrook Residency/CalArts Herb Alpert award artist residency (Washington) * 2004 Allihies Language & Arts Center, Allihies, Beara, West Cork (Ireland) 7/04 * 2003 Japanese Noh Theater Writing Workshop commission and guest artist Theater Nohgaku/Asian Cultural Council at National Noh Theater of Japan (Tokyo, Japan) * 2003 Bay Area Playwrights' Festival "Theater, Community & Civic Discourse" panelist 8/1/03 (San Francisco) * 2003 Theater Yugen reading series with Theater Nohgaku (San Fran) 6/28-30/03 * 2003 Theater Nohgaku Bloomsburg Japanese Noh training 8/03 (PA) * 2002 Key West Writing Residency/Joanne Jacobson/New Dramatists (Key West) * 2002 Hudson Valley Artists Foundation/HARP in Pawling (NY) * 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005 Choate Rosemary Hall/Hourglass Group Retreat (Connecticut) * 2001 First Contemporary Theater Festival guest juror in Riga (Latvia) * 2001 New York Theater Workshop at Dartmouth residency with Drama 65 & Red Frogs; * 2000 Women's International Playwriting Festival "Eros Teatrou", participant in Athens and Delphi, (Greece); * 2001 Observer, Voces Del Tajin dir. Andrea Paciotto in Paplanta (Veracruz, Mexico) * 1998 Villa Serbelloni/Foundazione Rockefeller Team Residency to write new desert songs, Bellagio, (Italy); * 1998 Villa Santa Maria Reggiana, La MaMa Umbria International, “Artista in Visita” at Spoleto, (Italy); * 1999 Observer, United Nations Civil Affairs in peacekeeping: Sarajevo, Mostar, Prozor-Rama and Jablanica, (Bosnia); * 1998 Audrey-Skirball Kinness Spring Retreat, featured playwright 3/29-4/5, (LA); * 1998 Frontera@Hyde Park guest playwright, TCG/NEA theater res. w/Laurie Carlos * 1997 Observer, Guatemala City, Chichicastenanga, Tikal, Antigua (Guatemala) | |
| SYMPOSIA, PANELS, CONFERENCES, etc. | |
| • Brandeis University “Coexistence International” at Brandeis House with UN, representatives from transitional justice, conflict resolution, peacebuilding, etc.7/05 • Theater Without Borders: On the Future of International Theater Exchange Panel Moderator “Depth vs. Glance: Continuity, Return, Follow-Through” 4/05 • New Dramatists “Interplay: Eastern European exchange with Dah Teatar” 3/05 • Brown University Performance Studies International #11 Becoming Uncomfortable “Book of Tea: on early collaboration with Dah Teatar (Serbia)” 4/05 • New Dramatists panel facilitator “Venture Capital for Alternative Producing” 6/04 • 2003 Hydra International Rebetiko Music Conference on “Women in Rebetiko” and JUDGES invited guest for lecture/demonstration, Melina Mercouri Hall 10/03 (Isle of Hydra, Greece) 10/03 • New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Alternate Roots: World Festival VI at the Victoria Theater post-performance panelist for VOICE OF THE DRAGON national tour with CAMI/Big Red Media, Inc. (NJ) 1/03 • Immigrant’s Theater Project Guest Playwright with Safe Horizon’s Solace Program for victims of war and torture from Kosovo, Bulgaria, Sierra Leone, India, etc. with dir. Marcy Arlin 1/03 and panelist for post-play discussion after Marquez’ ERENDIRA at HERE with Immigrant Theater Project 2/03 • New Dramatists, booksigning and panelist for Theater in Crisis anthology with Mac Wellman, Caridad Svich, Martin Epstein and Alice Tuan 1/03 • Panelist, Massachusetts Cultural Council “Artists Grants Program in Playwriting/New Theater” 2003 • Brave New World Guest Playwright at Town Hall in memorium of Sept. 11th with actress Kate Burton directed by Molly Smith from Arena Stage 9/02 (NY) • Moscow American Center Guest Artist post-performance panel with international artists at Library for Foreign Literature through Arts International Exploration grant (Moscow, Russia) 7/02 • LMDA (Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of America) Conference Guest Speaker on alternative new play development in Symposium with Megan Monaghan from Alliance Theater (Vancouver, Canada) 6/02 • Brooklyn College Arts Management panel guest artist on working in non-traditional not-for-profit theaters with Richard Foreman (4/02) • Arts Magnet symposium for underpriviledged inter-city students in Dallas with Undermain Theater in Dallas on Judges 19 and playwriting workshop, 1/01 • New Georges' Performathon Benefit, M.C. at Dixon Place/Vineyard Theater 7/99; • New Dramatists "Conversations with Playwrights" with Christopher Durang 9/99; • Brooklyn Academy of Music BAM Dialogues with Mac Wellman, BAM Café “On the future of American experimental theater”; essays to be published in 2000 2/99; • N.Y.S.C.A. panel participant “Women in Theater: (In)visible History” and subsequent national publication • Big Red Media “Matriarchal Socialism” launch party guest reading excerpts of NIGHT VISION, etc. • HERE panel post-performance discussion “On Religion and Opera” re: THE CRY PITCH CARROLLS 12/98;
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