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Directory: Writers with Works in NAWPA

Laura Shamas
Chickasaw

Plays in the Archive
  • A Story My Mother Told Me (and Her Mother told Her). 2010 (typescript, 7 pp.) 3M.

  • Chasing Honey. 2007 (typescript, draft 11/23/2008, 84 pp.) 4M 3M All Native Americans.
    Synopsis

  • Talking Leaves. 2008 (typescript, draft 12/01/2008, 79 pp.) 4M 3W Ensemble.
    Synopsis

  • Trapper Joan. 2009 (typescript, 81 pp.) 2W 2M.
Published Plays
  • See Women's Drama Collection: 1,500 Plays by Women from the 18th Century to the Present. CD-Rom and Online Subscription. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, and
    North American Indian Drama Collection. CD-Rom and Online Subscription. Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press.
  • Re-Sourcing. New York: Broadway Play Publishing, 2008.
    Anthologized in The Best Men's Stage Monologues 2009. Ed. Lawrence Haribson. Lyme, NH: Smith and Kraus, 2009.
  • Moliere in Love. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 2009.
  • Lincoln Vacation. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 2009.
  • Pistachio Stories in Living and Writing on America's Left Coast: Contemporary Women's Plays. Los Angeles: Lady Muraski Books, 2009.
  • Pistachio Stories (ten-minute version) in 2005: Best Ten-Minute Plays for Three or More Actors. Ed. D. L. Lepidus. Lyme, NH: Smith and Kraus, 2007.
  • Up to Date. New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2004.
    Anthologized as "Too Cool" in New Monologues for Women by Women. Vol. Two. Ed. Liz Engelman and Tori Haring-Smith. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 2005.
  • Lady-Like. New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2004.
    Anthologized in Best Scenes of 1995 and Best Female Monologues for Young Actors. Ed. Jocelyn A. Beard. Lyme, NH: Smith and Kraus, 1996.
  • Luck. In Scenes and Monologues for Young Actors. Ed. Kent Brown. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 2000.
  • Portrait of a Nude. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 1995.
  • Saucer city. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 1995.
  • Picnic at Hanging Rock (adapted from Lady Joan Lindsay). Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 1987.
  • Living Doll. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 1987.
  • Amelia Lives. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing, 1984.
  • The Other Shakespeare. Dramatic Publishing, 1980.
Other Publications
  • We Three: The Mythology of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
  • Playwriting for Theatre, Film and Television. Whitehall, VA: F & W Books/Betterway Publications, 1991.

Address
  • E-mail: LauraShamas@gmail.com

  • Webpage

  • Agent:
    Beth Blickers
    Abrams Artists, 26th Floor
    272 Seventh Avenue
    New York, NY 10001
    646-486-4600

  • Contact the Archive.


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