“Ruth Margraff is a playwright, performer, lyricist, lecturer and a powerful voice in contemporary American theatre...”
~The Telegraph (Calcutta INDIA)

“Ruth Margraff is a performance artist who looks like Shirley Temple, sounds like Marilyn Monroe and has the mentality of Thomas Merton eating alive William S. Burroughs.   She's got a savage imagination and a very sweet affect.”  
~National Public Radio “All Things Considered”:
Rebellion in the Regional Ranks

  “ Ruth Margraff is a vital voice in shaping the future of American theatre… a warrior writer riding the vanguard of New Wave opera, pushing the boundaries of the stage...She travels everywhere, like an electrifying idea.  
~The Austin Chronicle~

 

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• CAFÉ ANTARSIA ENSEMBLE 2008 summer touring • Apr 24-25 Viaduct Theater/HotHouse Center for International Performance and Chicago Cultural Centre/Music Without Borders(Chicago) • May 22-24 Accidental Festival/ Institute for Contemporary Arts(London, England) • June 1-4 National Theater of Cluj with Teatrul Imposibil and Université Babes-Bolyai (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) • May 28 Rock Cafe Praha (Prague, Czech Rep) • June 5-8 Sibiu International Theater Festival at Cisnadioara Castle (Sibiu, Romania) • June 12th NYC Drom with the New York Gypsy Allstars (NYC) • June 13th House of Hamez with Rochester Radio 4 WXXI "Open Tunings" feature (Rochester, NY) • June 14th at Crossing Borders Live WVBR 93.5 FM (Ithaca, NY)

•STADIUM DEVILDARE: BATTLE FOR GDZILLA X February 15 - March 23, 2008 at
Theatre of Note (Hollywood/Los Angeles) http://www.myspace.com/devildare2008. "Night Parachute Battalion" from STADIUM DEVILDARE at Sanctuary's Sweet Cantatas Festival (Brattleboro, VT) May 1-4, 2008

• SEVEN written with 7 female playwrights & 7 female world leaders January 21, 2008 at 92nd St Y; March 6 Vital Voices; April 13th Culture Project; http://www.seventheplay.com

• WELLSPRING at the Laguardia Performing Arts Center Oct 2-9 and the Chocolate Factory Dec 13-15, 2007 with Hourglass Group (NYC)

• CAFE ANTARSIA ENSEMBLE 2007 summer/fall touring to St. Lawrence University, Gilbert Recital Hall (Canton, NY), Queens International Film Festival Cafe Bar (Astoria, NYC), Mehanata House of Gypsy (NYC) Junction Arts Festival Centre Stage (Toronto, Ontario), Festivale des Concerts a l'Anglicane Holy Trinity de Lakefield (Montreal, Quebec), Hollins University (Roanoke, Virginia), Soul Infusion Tea House in the Smoky Mountains (Sylva, NC), Dilworth Playhouse (Charlotte, NC) Cafe Parizade Summer Concert Series (Durham, NC), etc. CAFE ANTARSIA ENSEMBLE signed to Innova Records with album Songs of the Table street release October 2007 http://www.innova.mu/artist1.asp?skuID=298

• HARLEQUIN readings at the Playwrights Center dir. Lisa Peterson for 2007 McKnight National Commission (Minneapolis)

• DRAGON vs. EAGLE Apollo Theater concert reading w/composer Fred Ho Jun 15-16, 2007 and BAM workshop Jan 2008 (NYC)

• Fulbright: New Opera fellowship for Thessaloniki, Athens, Paros and Crete
March-June 2006 (Greece)