Carolyn Gage
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Carolyn Gage (fl. 1990s & 2000s) is an American playwright (and theatrical director and actor), and an activist on lesbian and feminist issues. The author of four books on lesbian theatre and fifty plays, musicals, and one-woman shows, she specializes in non-traditional roles for women, especially those reclaiming famous lesbians whose stories have been distorted or erased from history.
Gage tours internationally, performing her own work and offering lectures and workshops. From 1998 to 1999 she was a Guest Lecturer at Bates College. As of 2005 she serves as artistic director of Cauldron & Labrys, an all-women production company in Portland, Maine.
In addition to her plays and writing for On The Issues, Gage has written pieces for the Dramatists Guild Quarterly, The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review , Trivia, Sinister Wisdom, Lesbian Ethics, The Lesbian Review of Books, The Michigan Quarterly Review and off our backs.
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[edit] Selected works
[edit] Overview
Her books include:
- Take Stage! How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play, a manual on lesbian theatre production,
- Scenes and Monologues for Lesbian Actors, the first collection of its kind ever published,
- Like There's No Tomorrow: Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy, a book of meditations on feminist activism.
- The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays, a collectio of award-winning short plays.
- Out in the Footlights, a second collection of ten short plays.
Her plays include:
- The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, a one-woman show in which Joan of Arc speaks to contemporary audiences,
- Ugly Ducklings, about blossoming lesbian love and homophobia at a girls' summer camp,
- The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, an audience participation courtroom drama presenting the trial of five women who betrayed the Anastasia Romanov of Russia,
- Thanatron, a dysfunctional family comedy.
- The Amazon All-Stars is a musical, the first lesbian full-book musical published by a mainstream publisher.
Other plays include Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist; Cookin' with Typhoid Mary; and The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman.
[edit] Plays
- The Amazon All-stars (Musical)
- Amy Lowell: in Her Own Words (One-woman show)
- The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women (Full-length play)
- Artemisia and Hildegarde (One-act play)
- Babe (Musical)
- Battered on Broadway (One-act play)
- Bite My Thumb (One-act play)
- The Boundary Trial of John Proctor (One-act play)
- Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter (One-act play)
- Coming About (Full-length play)
- Cookin' with Typhoid Mary (One-act play)
- Deviant Women (Two-woman show consisting of two monologues and a one-act play, Calamity Jane Sends a Message to her Daughter; Cookin' with Typhoid Mary, and Artemisia and Hildegarde)
- The Drum Lesson (One-act play)
- Entr'acte (One-act play)
- Esther and Vashti (Full-length play)
- The Evil That Men Do: the Story of Thalidomide (One-act play)
- Extravagant Love: the Life of Violette LeDuc (One-woman show)
- The Goddess Tour (Full-length play)
- Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist (One-act play)
- Heterosexuals Anonymous (One-act play)
- Jane Addams and the Devil Baby (One-act play)
- A Labor Play (One-act play)
- The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman (One-woman show)
- Leading Ladies (Musical)
- Louisa May Incest (One-act play)
- Mason-dixon (One-act play)
- The Obligatory Scene (One-act play)
- The Parmachene Belle (One-act play)
- Patricide (One-act play)
- The P.E. Teacher (One-act play)
- The Pele Chant (One-act play)
- The Poorly-Written Play Festival (One-act play)
- Radicals (One-act play)
- The Rules of the Playground (One-act play)
- Sappho in Love (Full-length play)
- The Second Coming of Joan of Arc (One-woman show)
- The Spindle (Full-length play)
- Stigmata (Full-length play)
- Thanatron (Full-length play)
- Ugly Ducklings (Full-length play)
- Women on the Land (Musical)
[edit] Books and Essays
- The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays
- Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors
- Like There's No Tomorrow: Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy
- Take Stage! How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play
- Under 30: Plays for a New Generation (contributor, Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist)
- "So You Know a Dyke with CFS ..."
[edit] Awards
- Janine C. Rae Cultural Award for the Advancement of Women's Culture, 2002 (Recipients include Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Nikki Giovanni and Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon.)
- National Finalist, Lambda Literary Award in Drama, for The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays
- Guest performer of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc on the roster of the national speakers' bureau Speak Out!
- Nominee, American Theatre Critics Association's annual ATCA/Steinberg New Play Award, for Ugly Ducklings
- National Finalist, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Jane Chambers Award, for The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
- National winner, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, for Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist
- Lynda Hart Memorial Grant, Astraea Lesbian Justice Foundation, NYC. 2005
- Play Thanatron named among "Best Productions of 2003" by the Portland Phoenix in Portland, Maine
- Finalist,Maine Playwrights Award, for Parmachene Belle, 2003
- National winner,$3000 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grant for best play about a lesbian historical figure, for The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
- Acquisition of personal papers for University of Oregon Special Collections Archive
- Oregon Playwrights Award from the Oregon Institute of Literary Artsfor The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.
- Walden Writer's Fellowship from Lewis & Clark College
- Institute of Literary Arts Writer's Grant
- Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant
- National Winner, Nancy Dean Distinguished Playwriting Award
- Eleanor Humes Haney Fund Grant
- New York Open Meadows Foundation Grant
