Plays Written by Janet Neipris:
A QUESTION OF COUNTRY
SUNDAY AT FIVE ON THE COTE D’AZUR
Synopses:
A Question Of Country – (5M 5W) Nabuntu, a black woman, and Julia, a white woman, secretly form a grass roots organization to fight against apartheid in the early 1970’s in Cape Town. But in post-apartheid South Africa, the conflicts and collision of cultures, and the ongoing, impenetrable class divisions, make the “wartime” friendship impossible. In the end, it is race, not class, which divides. Whose country is it?
Sunday At Five On the Cote D’Azur – A divorced New York actress and a widowed London psychiatrist meet on a senior dating site and plan an assignation somewhere neither have ever been — the French Riviera. Their dating profiles turn out to have many “alternative facts,” which both discover on this anything but romantic tryst.
Bio:
Janet Neipris is a Playwright, Short Story Writer, and Professor Emerita of Dramatic Writing at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, where she was Chair of the Department from 1981 to 2017. Her plays are published by Broadway Plays and Samuel French. Major Plays include The Bridge At Belharbour, Statues, Exhibition, The Agreement, Almost in Vegas, A Small Delegation, A Question of Country, and Jeremy And The Thinking Machine, for which she also wrote music and lyrics. Plays have been produced at theatres including The National Theatre, London, Arena Stage, D.C., Manhattan Theatre Club, N.Y., Center Stage, Baltimore, Milwaukee Rep, Signature Theatre D.C, Theatre Works, Palo Alto, Ca., and China Youth Arts Theatre, Beijing. She has composed music for The Women’s Project, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, and Jeremy and the Thinking Machine for the National Theatre, London. Honors include National Endowment for the Arts (2) and Rockefeller Fellowships to Bellagio, 2000., and 2010. She has also written for Film and Television. Her publications include To Be A Playwright, Routledge, 2006, and A Masterclass in Dramatic Writing, Routledge, 2017. She has taught Playwriting at Oxford, East Anglia University, and Beijing Film School, and in Florence, Prague, Indonesia, China, and London. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, a former Council Member, and a Lifetime Member of WGA East.
Currently, she is working on a memoir collection of short stories, essays, and plays, Blue Hills.
Website: www.janetneipris.com
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