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Carolyn Gage (born 1952) is an American playwright,[1] 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,[2] her work emphasizes non-traditional roles for women and lesbian characters.

Carolyn Gage
Born1952 (age 69–70)
United States of America
OccupationPlaywright, Actress, Theatre Director
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
PeriodContemporary
GenreDrama, historical drama, one-woman-shows
Literary movementRevival of lesbian feminist history and legacy
Website
carolyngage.weebly.com

Early life


Gage earned a master's degree in theater arts from Portland State University.[3]


Career


Gage's best known work is The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, a one-woman play about the historical figure Joan of Arc.[4] 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.[5]

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.

In addition to creative works, Gage has published a manual on lesbian theater production, Take Stage! How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play, which was published by Scarecrow Press. Gage also wrote Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors.

The author of numerous feminist essays, Gage was named contributing editor to the national feminist quarterly On The Issues and has published in the journals Trivia, Sinister Wisdom, Lesbian Ethics, and off our backs, as well as The Lesbian Review of Books, The Gay and Lesbian Review, and Lambda Book Report. Other publications include The Michigan Quarterly Review and Dramatists Guild Quarterly.

Gage served as a guest lecturer at Bates College from 1998 to 1999.[3]

The University of Oregon archive acquired her personal papers in 2004.[6]

In December 2014, Gage was awarded the first Lifetime Achievement Award given by Venus Theatre, founded by Deborah Randall in Laurel, Maryland. During the ceremony also celebrating the theatre's 50th production, she revived the memories of actresses, playwrights and directors Eva Le Gallienne, Henrietta Vinton Davis and Minnie Maddern Fiske who faced tremendous opposition to their work from the cultural establishment of their time. The American activist and playwright John Stoltenberg, lifelong companion of radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, said about Gage's acceptance speech:

Her acceptance speech, which she spoke off-the-cuff from notes, had a profound effect on the audience, because in it she described real and raw truths about what it means to work in theater as a woman.[7]

In 2018, Gage was interviewed for an investigation about how invisible disabilities tend to be hidden by creative professionals in the American show business in order not to experience discrimination, having herself concealed for years her myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome, she had had since 1988.[8]


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References


  1. Goodenough, Elizabeth (September 2003). Secret spaces of childhood. University of Michigan Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-472-06845-6. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  2. Day, Frances Ann (June 2000). Lesbian and gay voices: an annotated bibliography and guide to literature for children and young adults. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-313-31162-8. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  3. Gage, Carolyn. Bio and Vitae.
  4. Goy-Blanquet, Dominique (2003). Joan of Arc, a saint for all reasons: studies in myth and politics. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 139–. ISBN 978-0-7546-3330-3. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  5. Gonzalez Cerna, Antonio (8 February 2010). "21st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lamba Literary. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  6. "New Special Collections Items" (PDF). FYI. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon Libraries. Winter 2004. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
  7. "'A Theatre of Her Own': Working in Theatre as a Woman by Carolyn Gage - DC Metro Theater Arts". DC Metro Theater Arts. 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2018-09-02.
  8. "Pain Plus Silence: How Theatremakers Face Invisible Disabilities". AMERICAN THEATRE. 2018-07-31. Retrieved 2018-08-29.
  9. Leavitt, Judith Walzer (1997-07-31). Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health. Beacon Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-8070-2103-3. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  10. Kear, Lynn (2010-10-14). Laurette Taylor, American Stage Legend. McFarland. pp. 227–. ISBN 978-0-7864-5922-3. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
  11. Madison, D. Soyini; Hamera, Judith (2006-02-02). The SAGE handbook of performance studies. SAGE. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-7619-2931-4. Retrieved 1 May 2011.




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