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McLaughlin, Ellen McGehee was born on November 9, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Charles Capen and Ann Landis McLaughlin.
( From The Persians "Defeat is impossible Defeat is unthi...)
From The Persians "Defeat is impossible Defeat is unthinkable We have always been the favorites of fate. Fortune has cupped us In her golden palms. It has only been a matter Of choosing our desire. Which fruit To pick from the nodding tree." This chilling passage is from Ellen McLaughlin’s new adaptation of The Persians by Aeschylus, the earliest surviving play in Western literature, an elegy for a fallen civi-lization and a warning to its new conqueror. As Margo Jefferson wrote in the New York Times, "The play is a true classic: we see the present and the future right there, inside the past. And when writers give us a ‘new version’ (a translation or adaptation) of a classic, they both serve and use it. They serve the playwright’s gifts by refusing to simplify. But they can’t just imitate. Every age has its own rhythms and drives. The classic must make us feel the new acutely. Ellen McLaughlin serves and uses The Persians with true power and grace." Also included in this volume: Iphigenia and Other Daughters (from Euripides and Sophocles); The Trojan Women (Euripides); Helen (Euripides); and Lysistrata (Aristophanes), all powerfully realized and as relevant today as when they were first performed. Ellen McLaughlin’s plays include Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity’s House and Tongue of a Bird, which have been widely produced. She is a past finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was the co-winner of the Great American Play Contest. Also an accomplished actor, Ms. McLaughlin is most known for having originated the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, appearing in every U.S. production through its Broadway run.
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Drama Characters: 2 male, 3 female Combination interior and exterior set. Loved by audiences and critics nationwide, this compassionate and reflective play about two women coping with loneliness and loss was also successfully presented Off Broadway. The women are the last members of a rural commune founded in the 60's. One's husband was killed in Vietnam and she still clings to his memory. The other's wisecracking husband is hospitalized and dying. Both women find the courage to accept their "narrow bed" and get on with their lives. "McLaughlin is a good writer who writes good talk; . . . the large chunks of soliloquy are interesting and moving. Women will surely love this play . . . of such welcome warmth." N.Y. Post . "A penetrating study of friendship and idealism under stress." N.Y. Times . Note: excellent source of monologues.
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Full Length, Drama Characters: 5 female Unit set. Maxine, a search and rescue pilot, returns in midwinter to her childhood home in the Adirondacks. There she conducts a search for a girl who, while on a field trip in the mountains, was abducted by a stranger in a black pick up truck. The search lasts for three days. Each night Maxine must face the girl's distraught mother, Dessa, and her own grandmother, Zofia, a reclusive Polish refugee. In sleep, Maxine is prey to nightmares and fragmented memories of a mother who abandoned her in childhood and was lost to insanity. Cherry Jones starred Off Broadway in this powerful consideration of the notions of loss, motherhood and the vexed yearning for release. "Emotionally powerful ... and intensely satisfying." Seattle Times.
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McLaughlin, Ellen McGehee was born on November 9, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Charles Capen and Ann Landis McLaughlin.
Bachelor summa cum laude, Yale University, New Haven, 1980.
Producers include: Actors" Theater of Louisville, The Actors’ Gang Los Angeles, Classic Stage Company, New York, The Intiman Theater, Seattle, Almeida Theater, London, The Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, the Public Theater in New York City, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The National Actors’ Theater, New York,and The Guthrie Theater, Minnesota, among many other venues. McLaughlin is also an actor. She has worked on and Office Broadway as well as extensively in regional theater.
She is most well known for having originated the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner"s Angels in America, appearing in every United States. production from its earliest workshops through its Broadway run.
Her on-screen credits include Everything Relative, The Bed You Sleep In, with guest appearances on Law & Order. She has taught playwrighting in numerous venues, from Yale School of Drama to Princeton University.
She has been teaching at Barnard College since 1995. Her most recent publication, by T.C.G., is The Greek Plays.
She attended The Potomac School in McLean, Virginia for elementary school (through 9th grade).
She subsequently attended and graduated from Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, District of Columbia. She graduated from Sidwell Friends School in 1976. She graduated from Yale University in 1980, summa cum laude.
( From The Persians "Defeat is impossible Defeat is unthi...)
(Drama Characters: 2 male, 3 female Combination interio...)
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She is a member of New Dramatists and has served on the board of T.C.G.
Other favorite roles include The Homebody in Homebody/Kabul (Intiman Theater, Seattle), Pirate Jenny in Threepenny Opera (Trinity Representative Elliot Norton Award), Mistress Alving in Ghosts (Berkeley Representative) Titania in A Midsummer Night"s Dream at the McCarter and the Paper Mill Playhouse, A Delicate Balance, (Arena Stage, Yale Representative) Good People (George Street Playhouse, Seattle Representative), Dear Elizabeth (People"s Light and Theater) and Outside Mullingar (George Street Playhouse).
Married Rinde Williams Eckert, August 14, 1994.