Marsha Lee SheinessPlaywright315 West 19th Street #53New York, NY 10011 Phone (212) 9249256 Fax (631) 7653639 MSheiness@aol.com Marsha Lee Sheiness‚ plays have been produced in community, regional, and university theaters across the United States. Other productions include Japan, Canada and England.As a playwrightinresidence at New York‚s Playwrights Horizons in New York City, 19721977, she participated in eleven productions of her plays there, including her first directorial assignment. Other New York productions include: CSV Cultural Center for the Out on the Edge Together Festival, AMAS Musical Theatre, Perry Street Theater, Westbeth Theater Center, Actor's Outlet, 18th Street Playhouse, New York Stage Works, Queens Theatre in the Park, Devine Theatre, and the Avalon.PROFESSOR GEORGE and THE SPELLING BEE were produced by the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Connecticut, both directed by Harold Scott. The PBS WNET/13's television series, "Theater in America" produced MONKEY, MONKEY BOTTLE OF BEER, HOW MANY MONKEYS HAVE WE HERE? following its production at Cincinnati Playhouse in the park directed by Harold Scott. GREAT EXPECTATIONS, music and lyrics by Robert Bendorff, book by Marsha Lee Sheiness was a 1997 Finalist for The Richard Rodgers Award, a 1997 Finalist for The Family Opera /Music Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference in Waterford Connecticut and a 1997 finalist for the Festival of Contemporary Musical Theatre. GREAT EXPECTATIONS was first presented at the 1995 ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop and again at the 1995 AMAS fall Œ6 O'clock Series, directed by Gabriel Barre. AMAS produced the entire musical as a staged reading in March, 1996. Other Bendorff/Sheiness collaborations: AKA, HENRY SUGAR, adapted from Roald Dahl's THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR, and an original, STOP THE PARADE. She has written the book for a musical review based on global gender bias, LIPSTICK POLITICS. LIPSTICK POLITICS had it's first public reading in December, 1999 produced by AMAS Musical Theatre in New York City. It received another staged reading in June, 2000. BECOMING ELEANOR, based on the early life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, opened to excellent reviews on February 15, 2001 at the Theatre Conspiracy (NonEquity) in Fort Myers, Florida directed by Robert Kalfin. BECOMING ELEANOR is scheduled to open in November 2002 at the Long Beach Playhouse in Long Beach California and at the Dayton Theatre Guild in March 2003. MONKEY MONKEY BOTTLE OF BEER, HOW MANY MONKEYS HAVE WE HERE? received a London production in July, 2001 by the South London Theatre at the Bell Theatre. Commissions: The Actors Theater of Louisville, RECEPTION and BERNIE AND THE BEAST; Earplay, FLOATERS (radio). Screen: HAVE A NICE WEEKEND (Dialogist), Coscreenwriter of THE FALL. Television: THE DOCTORS (Soap, Dialogist), The Electric Company. TWO SWALLOWS IN NO TIME illustrated by Meg Crane, Chelsea House Publishing. Awards: National Endowment for the Arts. She is published by Samuel French,Inc. and is a member of The Dramatist Guild, Writers Guild East, PEN, SAG, and AEA. Represented by: |