Carolyn Gage (born 1952) is an American playwright, actor, theatrical
director and author. She has written nine books on lesbian theater and
sixty-five plays, musicals, and one-woman shows. A lesbian feminist,
her work emphasizes non-traditional roles for women and lesbian
characters.Gage earned a masters in theater arts from Portland State
University.Gage's best known work is The Second Coming of Joan of Arc,
a one-woman play about the historical figure Joan of Arc. It has been
translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, Bulgarian, and Mandarin
and achieved first-class production in Brazil, starring Christiane
Torloni. The script was published in The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
and Selected Plays, an anthology of Gage's historical plays. The
anthology was named the national winner of the 2008 Lambda Literary
Award in Drama.Other notable work includes Ugly Ducklings, which was
nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the
prestigious ATCA/ Steinberg New Play Award, an award with given
annually for the best new play produced outside New York. It won a
2004 Lesbian Theatre Award from Curve magazine, and a $150,000
documentary on the play premiered in 2005 at the Frameline
International Film Festival in San Francisco.[citation needed] In
2004, The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women was named national
finalist for the Jane Chambers Award given by the Association for
Theatre in Higher Education.[citation needed] Harriet Tubman Visits a
Therapist was presented at Actors Theatre of Louisville in the
Juneteenth Festival of African American plays. It was a national
winner of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, and is included
in Random House's anthology Under 30: Plays for a New Generation.
director and author. She has written nine books on lesbian theater and
sixty-five plays, musicals, and one-woman shows. A lesbian feminist,
her work emphasizes non-traditional roles for women and lesbian
characters.Gage earned a masters in theater arts from Portland State
University.Gage's best known work is The Second Coming of Joan of Arc,
a one-woman play about the historical figure Joan of Arc. It has been
translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, Bulgarian, and Mandarin
and achieved first-class production in Brazil, starring Christiane
Torloni. The script was published in The Second Coming of Joan of Arc
and Selected Plays, an anthology of Gage's historical plays. The
anthology was named the national winner of the 2008 Lambda Literary
Award in Drama.Other notable work includes Ugly Ducklings, which was
nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for the
prestigious ATCA/ Steinberg New Play Award, an award with given
annually for the best new play produced outside New York. It won a
2004 Lesbian Theatre Award from Curve magazine, and a $150,000
documentary on the play premiered in 2005 at the Frameline
International Film Festival in San Francisco.[citation needed] In
2004, The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women was named national
finalist for the Jane Chambers Award given by the Association for
Theatre in Higher Education.[citation needed] Harriet Tubman Visits a
Therapist was presented at Actors Theatre of Louisville in the
Juneteenth Festival of African American plays. It was a national
winner of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, and is included
in Random House's anthology Under 30: Plays for a New Generation.
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