“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 touring to Cairo & Alexandria (EGYPT), Sibiu & Cluj-Napoca (ROMANIA), Prague (CZECH REPUBLIC), London (UK), Amsterdam (NL), Chicago, NYC, and Rochester, Ithaca, Lodi Gypsy Festival (NY), etc.

• SEVEN written with 7 female playwrights & 7 female world leaders touring to Forum for Women on the Economy and Society (Deauville, FRANCE), FolkTeatern (Gothenburg, SWEDEN), Elverket/Royal Dramatic Theatre and Riksteatern Hallunda (Stockholm), Association for Foreign Policy/University of Lund (SWEDEN), London Royal Aeronautical Society (UK), Harvard Business School, NYU Skirball Theater, Culture Project, 92nd Street Y, Diane von Furstenberg’s Studio (NYC), Harmon Center for the Arts/Vital Voices (Wash DC) Aspen Ideas Festival (Colorado), Los Angeles; published by Dramatists Play Service Fall 2009 www.sevenplay.org

• HARLEQUIN readings at the New Group (NYC) dir. Lisa Peterson; Victory Gardens Theater (Chicago) dir. Loy Arcenas, commissioned by Playwrights Center/2007 McKnight National Commission & Residency (Minneapolis); 2006 Hedgebrook/Herb Alpert award artist residency (Washington)

•STADIUM DEVILDARE: BATTLE FOR GDZILLA X February 15 - March 23, 2008 at Theatre of Note (Hollywood/Los Angeles); excerpt "Night Parachute Battalion" May 1-4, 2008 at Sanctuary's Sweet Cantatas Festival (Brattleboro, VT) and Jan 10-14, 2005 Actors' Theater of Louisville (Kentucky)

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

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

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