Lillian Garrett-Groag

Lillian Garrett-Groag (birthdate unknown) is an American playwright, theatre director, and actor. Her plays include "The Ladies of the Camellias", "The Magic Fire", and "The White Rose" [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/groag-lillian.html Lillian Groag - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays ] ]

Biography

Theatre career

Miss Groag has acted, directed and written for many regional theatres in the country, Broadway and Off, as well as opera houses. Her plays have also had long runs in Germany, Mexico and Japan.Fact|date=May 2008

In 1993, Groag acted as part of an ensemble cast in The Kentucky Cycle at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.. For this performance she received a Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer in 1994.

In 1997, Groag's play "The Magic Fire" premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She received a Kennedy Center "Fund for New American Plays" (FNAP) to support this. [http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/theater/fnap/garrett.html 1996 FNAP Grant Recipient-Lillian Garrett-Groag ] ]

Works

Plays

"The Ladies of the Camellias" is a farce about an imagined meeting in Paris, 1897, between the famous theater divas Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse. They are each to start in separate productions of "The Lady of the Camellias" on successive nights.cite book
last = Groag
first =Lillian
authorlink = Lillian Garrett-Groag
title =The Ladies of the Camellias
publisher =Dramatist's Play Service
date =March 30, 1996
pages =84
id = ISBN 0822215012]

"The Magic Fire" is a play about an immigrant family in Buenos Aires during the 1950s regime of Juan Perón. They take refuge from the fascist politics of Argentina in art and opera. Eventually, events force them to confront the politics and their moral obligationscite book
last = Groag
first =Lillian
authorlink = Lillian Garrett-Groag
title =The Magic Fire
publisher =Dramatist's Play Service
date =December 30, 2005
pages =85
id = ISBN 0822220504] . Premiered in 1997 at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Performed (among other times) in 2006 at the Shaw Festival.

"The White Rose (play)" is a play about resistance by German university students to Hitler's Nazi Germany, pivoting around a young student Sophie and a police inspector Mohr.cite book
last =Garrett-Groag
first =Lillian
authorlink = Lillian Garrett-Groag
title =The White Rose
publisher =Dramatist's Play Service
year=1998 |month = January
id = ISBN 0822213524]

"Midons", a play about the Troubadours in Provence and the "invention of love". A Monty Python-type farce with serious undertones. Produced by The People's Light and Theatre Company in Philadelphia.Fact|date=May 2008

"Menocchio", a play about the famous real-life trial of miller Domenico Scandella in the Friuli region in 1600. Scandella propounded about evolution, socialism and doubted the existence of God. A comedy. Produced by the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.Fact|date=May 2008

"Blood Wedding", translated and adapted by Garrett-Groag from a Spanish play by Federico García Lorca, is a play about a cycle of murder and revenge in an imagined setting in rural Spain.cite book
last =García Lorca
first =Federico
authorlink=Federico García Lorca
coauthors = Lillian Garrett-Groag
title =Blood Wedding
publisher =Dramatist's Play Service
year=2002 |month = February
id = ISBN 082221816X]

Translations and Adaptations

"A Flaw in the Ointment" by Georges Feydeau. Performed in 1993-94 by the Seattle Rep.

"The Triumph of Love" by Pierre Marivaux. Adapted from a new translation by Frederick Kluck. Performed in 2007 by California Shakespeare Theater and San Jose Rep.

Blood Wedding - Garcia Lorca - Guthrie Theater

Liliom - Molnar - Missouri Rep

Productions directed

1998: "Scapin, the Cheat", (Molière), California Shakespeare Theater.

2000: "The Taming of the Shrew", California Shakespeare Theater.

2003: "Arms and the Man" (Shaw), California Shakespeare Theater.

2005: "The Tempest", California Shakespeare Theater.

2007: "The Triumph of Love" (Marivaux), California Shakespeare Theater and San Jose Rep.

The Rivals - A.C.T. in San Francisco

A Flaw in the Ointment - Seattle Rep

Menocchio - Berkeley Rep

Napoli Milionaria and The Magic Fire - Milwaukee Rep

Midons and The Imaginary Invalid - People's Light and Theatre Company, Philadelphia

Enter the Guardsman and The Triumph of Love - San Jose Rep

Death and the Maiden - Center Stage, Baltimore

School for Scandal and Merry Wives of Windsor - at Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Smash - Asolo Theatre

Liliom - Missouri RepOPERA - Virginia Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Boston Lyric, Cincinnati, Chcago Opera Theatre, San Jose Opera, Florida Grand Opera.

Awards

* 1994: Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer

* 1996: Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays (FNAP) grant, for "The Magic Fire" at Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

AT&T American Plays - "The White Rose"

TCG - Playwright in Residence grant, Center Stage, Baltimore. "Menocchio".

Trivia

References

Include a bibliography listed in MLA format.

ee also

External links

* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/groag-lillian.html doollee.com playwright entry for Lillian Groag]
* [http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=75938 Internet Broadway Database entry for Lillian Garrett-Groag]
* [http://www.alliedartists.co.uk/artist_page.php?tid=32&aid=35 Agent's biography of Lillian Garrett-Groag]

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