Myrna Lila Lamb (August 3, 1930,

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Career

Myrna Lamb graduated from

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and

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

. Anselma dell'Olio, film critic and director, selected her work for a

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Theater production at the Martinique Theater in May 1969. Several of her works were produced by the Women's Interart Theatre in New York City, which had started around 1969. This theatre showcased work by women playwrights and directors. Myrna Lamb died of heart disease on September 15, 2017, aged 87.Genzlinger, Neil
"Myrna Lamb, Feminist Playwright in an Unwelcoming Era, Dies at 87"
''The New York Times'', September 22, 2017.

Awards

* 1971 Biennale de Paris production grant * 1973 Rockefeller Fellowship residency grant for New York Shakespeare Festival * 1973

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* 1974, 1975

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Music Program grant * 1977 New York Shakespeare Festival grant (Playwrights on Payroll)

Works

* ''Apple Pie'', 1976, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City * ''Ballad Of Brooklyn'', 1979, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York * ''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'' * ''Mod Donna'', 1970, New York Shakespeare Festival, New York City''Mod Donna''
lortel.org, retrieved September 24, 2017 * ''Monologia:The Mod Donna and Scylon Z'', Interart Theatre, NYC 1971 * ''Mother Ann'' * ''Olympic Park'', New York Shakespeare Festival, NYC (reading) * ''Pas de Deux'',

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, 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

External links

Interview with Myrna Lamb about Women Playwrights in WNED public television series “Woman”, 1974"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)
1930 births 2017 deaths American dramatists and playwrights The New School alumni Rutgers University alumni Writers from Newark, New Jersey {{US-playwright-stub