Myrna Lamb

Myrna Lamb (born August 3, 1930 Newark, New Jersey) is an American playwright.

Anselma dell'Olio selected her work for a feminist Theater production, at the Martinique Theater, May 1969.^[1]

Life

She graduated from The New School, and Rutgers University.

Awards

• 1971 Biennale de Paris production grant
• 1973 Rockefeller Fellowship residency grant for New York Shakespeare Festival
• 1973 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[2]
• 1974, 1975 National Endowment for the Arts Music Program grant
• 1977 New York Shakespeare Festival grant (Playwrights on Payroll)

Works

• Apple Pie, New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC
• Ballad Of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Academy, NY
• But What Have You Done for Me Lately, Washington Square Church, NYC 1968
• The Butcher Shop, Oberlin College, OH
• The Comeback Act, Interart Theatre, NYC
• Crab Quadrille, Interart Theatre, NYC, 1976
• I Lost A Pair Of Gloves Yesterday, Manhattan Theatre Club, NY
• In The Shadow of The Crematoria, Martinique Theatre, NYC
• Jillila
• The Mod Donna, New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC
• Monologia:The Mod Donna and Scylon Z, Interart Theatre, NYC 1971
• Mother Ann
• Olympic Park, New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC (reading)
• Pas de Deux, Oberlin College, OH
• The Sacrifice, AMDA Theatre, NYC
• The Serving-Girl and the Lady, Martinique Theatre, NYC
• Two Party System

Screenplays

• Balloon
• Blood Alley
• Dead Center
• Point Pleasant America
• Treatments for King of the Blitz

References

1. Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Ann Snitow, eds. (2007). The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3973-7.
2. "Myrna Lamb - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". Gf.org. Retrieved 2011-12-22.

External links

• "Myrna Lamb", doollee
• "A Woman's Work...", The Harvard Crimson, Joan Feigenbaum, April 08, 1978
• "American Women Dramatists: 1960-1980", Southeastern Theatre Conference (Nashville, TN, March 5-9, 1980)