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 [1]
Biography
Theatre Career
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.[2]
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.[3][1]
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 obligations[4][1]. 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.[5][1]
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.[6][1]
Translations and Adaptations
A Flaw in the Ointment by Georges Feydeau. Peformed 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.
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.
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.
Trivia
References
Include a bibliography listed in MLA format.
See also
External links
- doollee.com playwright entry for Lillian Groag
- Internet Broadway Database entry for Lillian Garrett-Groag
- Agent's biography of Lillian Garrett-Groag
Notes
- ^ a b c d e http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsG/groag-lillian.html
- ^ http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/theater/fnap/garrett.html
- ^ Groag, Lillian (March 30, 1996). The Ladies of the Camellias. Dramatist's Play Service. p. 84. ISBN 0822215012.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Groag, Lillian (December 30, 2005). The Magic Fire. Dramatist's Play Service. p. 85. ISBN 0822220504.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Garrett-Groag, Lillian (1998). The White Rose. Dramatist's Play Service. ISBN 0822213524.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ García Lorca, Federico (2002). Blood Wedding. Dramatist's Play Service. ISBN 082221816X.
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