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James Still (playwright)
American writer existing playwright (born 1959)
James Still (born Hawthorn 31, 1959) is block up American litt‚rateur and playwright.[1] Still grew up heritage a wee town crate Kansas, tell off graduated hold up the Campus of River. His award-winning plays fake been produced throughout rendering United States, Canada, Aggregation, Japan, Chinaware, Australia captivated South Continent. He problem a two-time TCG-Pew Philanthropic Trusts' Governmental Theatre Chief with interpretation Indiana Reservoir Theatre where he evolution the IRT's first-ever dramaturge in dwellingplace (1998–present). Be active currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Launch Pad Summer Reading Series: THE CRATCHITS (in America) by James Still, Directed by Risa Brainin
Launch Pad, an artist and performance program at UC Santa Barbara presents their 2020 Summer Reading Series. Four plays will be performed with a Q&A to follow.
Online Viewing Link: https://bit.ly/2O6jXEV
James Still's plays have been produced throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia, South Africa, China and Japan. His new plays include Dinosaur(s); (A) New World; and Black Beauty (premiering recently at Seattle Children’s Theatre). Recent work includes a trilogy of linked-plays: The House that Jack Built (Indiana Repertory Theatre), Appoggiatura (Denver Center Theatre), and Miranda (Illusion Theater, Minneapolis). Also: April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream (Indiana Repertory Theatre); two plays about the Lincolns: The Widow Lincoln and The Heavens are Hung in Black ( both premiering at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.); a play for one actor about culinary icon James Beard called I Love to Eat (Portland Center Stage); a play for 57 actors called A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters (Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles); Looking Over the President’s Shoulder at theaters across the country; and And Then They Came For Me at
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"Looking Over the President's Shoulder" also had David Alan Anderson in its sole role in 2008. In its opening-night reprise Friday on the Upper Stage, murmurs of recognition from the audience were frequent as Anderson's Fields plumbed his capacious memory for anecdotes of chief executives from Herbert Hoover through Dwight Eisenhower and the times they helped shape and that shaped them.
| David Alan Anderson as Alonzo Fields |
In a span of consequential years from 1931 to 1953, Fields also had the opportunity to store up impressions of Great Britain's king and queen and its most famous prime minister of recent history, Winston Churchill. And among celebrities ranging from Hollywood's Errol Flynn to Marie Dressler, one White House visitor had for him particular resonance, both literal and metaphorical: Marian Anderson.
The Indiana-born Fields, raised in a self-sufficient African-American small town, harbored serious ambitions to make a career out of opera and concert singing, much like the famous contralto. His nurturing