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Shirley Lauro is currently publishing the anthology Front Lines: Political Plays by American Women, edited with Alexis Greene, to be released by The New Press in June 2009. In 2008, Ms. Lauro received an Ensemble Studio Theater Sloan Foundation Commission for her new work What Cost the Moon: Madame Curie’s Private Life. She also first […]
Shirley Lauro. Shirley Lauro's All Through the Night garnered a 2006 Jefferson Nomination as Best New Play in Chicago, while Clarence Darrow's Last Trial received a 2005 NEA Access to Excellence Grant and was a 2006 Carbonell Nomination as Best New Play in Florida. On Broadway, Open Admissions received one Tony nomination, two Drama Desk ...
A live recording of "Martha's Song" by The Barefoot Movement, inspired by the book and the play "A Piece of My Heart," which chronicles the stories of women who served in the Vietnam War as nurses, Red Cross volunteers, army officers, and USO performers.
Shirley Lauro most recently premiered A Piece of My Heart at Actors Theatre of Louisville, which won the Kitteredge Award and Barbara Deming Prize, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
FRONT LINES: Political Plays by American Women, Shirley Lauro & Alexis Greene, Editors Shirley Lauro & Alexis Greene, Editors The New Press, June 1, 2009, 2009 New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media, Collaboration Award Finalist 7 women playwrights dramatize the stuggle for justice in America, where their characters are thrust into an unjust world. Playwrights include ...
Guggenheim Fellow Shirley Lauro 's best-known work is A Piece of my Heart. With over 2,000 productions, it was named "among our top-produced plays worldwide" for the second consecutive year, including dramas and musicals (Nate Collins, President, Samuel French Play Publishers, ...
Shirley Lauro has written a thoughtful, sometimes comic, and ultimately moving drama about an inner-city black youth's collision with a well-meaning educational policy that can have dire consequences."
