Deb Margolin
Encyclopedia
Deb Margolin is an American performance artist and playwright
. Coming to prominence in the 1980s in the feminist
political theatre
troupe Split Britches (of which she was a founding member), Margolin has since made a string of one-woman shows. A compilation of her texts, Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. Literary theorist Lynda Hart edited and wrote a commentary on each piece.
Margolin was the recipient of a 1999-2000 Obie Award
for Sustained Excellence in Performance. In 2005, Margolin won the Kesselring Prize for her play, Three Seconds in the Key, a multi-character play which reflected her own experiences with Hodgkin's Disease.
She currently teaches playwrighting and performance as an associate professor at Yale University
. Her work includes O Yes I Will, a detailed account of her experiences and insights on being under general anaesthesia
.
Margolin was forced to revise her 2010 play Imagining Madoff
after legal threats from Elie Wiesel
, who is one of Bernard Madoff
's victims and had called Madoff a "scoundrel" but had refused to allow a character representing him and using his name to be used in the play.
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
. Coming to prominence in the 1980s in the feminist
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
political theatre
Political theatre
In the history of theatre, there is long tradition of performances addressing issues of current events and central to society itself, encouraging consciousness and social change. The political satire performed by the comic poets at the theatres, had considerable influence on public opinion in the...
troupe Split Britches (of which she was a founding member), Margolin has since made a string of one-woman shows. A compilation of her texts, Of All The Nerve: Deb Margolin SOLO, was published in 1999 by Cassell/Continuum Press. Literary theorist Lynda Hart edited and wrote a commentary on each piece.
Margolin was the recipient of a 1999-2000 Obie Award
Obie Award
The Obie Awards or Off-Broadway Theater Awards are annual awards given by The Village Voice newspaper to theatre artists and groups in New York City...
for Sustained Excellence in Performance. In 2005, Margolin won the Kesselring Prize for her play, Three Seconds in the Key, a multi-character play which reflected her own experiences with Hodgkin's Disease.
She currently teaches playwrighting and performance as an associate professor at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. Her work includes O Yes I Will, a detailed account of her experiences and insights on being under general anaesthesia
General anaesthesia
General anaesthesia is a state of unconsciousness and loss of protective reflexes resulting from the administration of one or more general anaesthetic agents...
.
Margolin was forced to revise her 2010 play Imagining Madoff
Imagining Madoff
Imagining Madoff is a 2010 play by playwright Deb Margolin that tells the story of an imagined encounter between Bernard Madoff, the admitted operator of what has been described as the largest Ponzi scheme in history, and his victims...
after legal threats from Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Sir Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBE; born September 30, 1928) is a Hungarian-born Jewish-American writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and...
, who is one of Bernard Madoff
Bernard Madoff
Bernard Lawrence "Bernie" Madoff is a former American businessman, stockbroker, investment advisor, and financier. He is the former non-executive chairman of the NASDAQ stock market, and the admitted operator of a Ponzi scheme that is considered to be the largest financial fraud in U.S...
's victims and had called Madoff a "scoundrel" but had refused to allow a character representing him and using his name to be used in the play.
Works
- The God Show (1982)
- Coupla Weirdos (1986)
- In a Vacuum (1988)
- What's with Hamlet? (1989)
- Of All the Nerve (1989)
- You Don't Even Know Where the Strike Zone Is (1990)
- 970-DEBB (1990)
- Gestation (1991)
- Lesbians Who Kill (1992)
- The Breaks (1993), written with Rae C. Wright
- Of Mice, Bugs and Women (1994)
- Carthieves! Joyrides! (1995)
- Bearing Witnesses (1996)
- O Wholly Night & Other Jewish Solecisms (1996)
- Critical Mass (1997)
- Bringing the Fishermen Home (1998)
- Three Seconds in the Key (2001)
- Rock, Scissors, Paper (2002)
- Three Seconds in the Key (2002)
- Why Cleaning Fails (2002)
- Index to Idioms (2003)
- Three Seconds in the Key (2004)
- The Rich Silk Of It (2005)
- Time Is The Mercy of Eternity (2006)
- Clarisse and Larmon (2006)
- O Yes I Will (2006)
- Imagining MadoffImagining MadoffImagining Madoff is a 2010 play by playwright Deb Margolin that tells the story of an imagined encounter between Bernard Madoff, the admitted operator of what has been described as the largest Ponzi scheme in history, and his victims...
(2010)