Joan Schenkar

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Joan Schenkar (born August 15, 1952 in Seattle ) is an American writer and playwright.

Life

Joan Schenkar grew up in Seattle and attended ballet school at the Cornish College of the Arts there as a child . She studied English and American Literature at Bennington College , University of California at Berkeley and State University of New York, Stony Brook with a BA degree. In 1976 she released her first play Cabin Fever at the La Mama Theater in Hollywood , Los Angeles . In 1977 she joined Joseph Chaikin 's Writer's Project . She has worked in independent theater groups and was the founder and artistic director of Force Majeure Productions in New York City . According to her own account, her forty pieces have been produced over five hundred times on stage, on the radio and on television.

Schenkar was invited to various universities as "Writer in Residence for Drama". She is an alumna of the "New Dramatists", member of the Authors Guild , the Dramatists Guild of America , PEN , the Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques and the Brontë Society.

In 2000 Schenkar published a biography about Dolly Wilde (1895–1941), the niece of Oscar Wilde and lover of Natalie Clifford Barney .

Schenkar studied the work of Patricia Highsmith for several years and published a large-scale biography on her in 2009. The book was named "Notable Book" by the New York Times in 2010 , received a Lambda Literary Award and was nominated for the Edgar Award and the Agatha Award in 2009.

Schenkar lives in Paris and Greenwich Village .

Works (selection)

  • Signs of life: a drama . New York: S. French, 1980
  • Cabin fever: a comedy of menace . New York: S. French, 1984
  • Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace . Edited and with a foreword by Vivian Patraka. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, 1998 (contains: Cabin fever , Signs of life , Fulfilling Koch's postulate , The last of Hitler , The universal wolf , Burning desires .)
  • The last of Hitler . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2005
  • The universal wolf . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2005
  • Burning desires . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2005
  • Fulfilling Koch's postulate . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2005
  • Bucks and does . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2006
  • The lodger . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2006
  • Mr. Monster . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2006
  • Family pride in the 50's . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2006
  • Between the acts: a capitalist fairy tale . Drama. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2006
  • Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde . New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000
  • Fire in the future: libretto for a new music theater piece about Joan of Arc . Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2006
  • The talented Miss Highsmith: the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith . New York: St. Martin's Press, 2009
    • The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Life and Work of Mary Patricia Highsmith , From the Americas. by Renate Orth-Guttmann, Katrin Betz and Anna-Nina Kroll. Diogenes, Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-06898-6
as editor
  • Patricia Highsmith: Selected novels and short stories . New York, NY: WW Norton & Co, 2011
  • Tereska Torrès : Women's barracks . Afterword by Judith Mayne. Interview with the author by Joan Schenkar. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2005

literature

  • Christopher WE Bigsby : A critical introduction to twentieth-century American drama. 3. Beyond Broadway . Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1985 (on p. 435 f. Signs of life )
  • Vivian M. Patraka: Feminism and the Jewish subject in the plays of Sachs, Atlan, and Schenkar . In: Sue-Ellen Case (Ed.): Performing feminisms: feminist critical theory and theater , Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press., 1990, pp. 160-174

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joan Schenkar in doollee, The Playwrights Database
  2. ↑ Joan Schenkar , at filmreference
  3. ↑ Kathrin Meier-Rust: She hated children, but loved cats , review in: NZZ , January 25, 2015
  4. ↑ Thomas David: Wrestling with a Spirit , Interview in: NZZ , April 11, 2015, p. 25
personal data
SURNAME Schenkar, Joan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Seattle