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HEATHER WOODBURY
Playwright Solo Performer Novelist
| 2007-9 | Last Days of Desmond "Nani" Reese: A Stripper's History of the World (90 minute length) debuted May, 2007 as part of City of L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship program.
Productions :
| 2008 Feb | Bang Theatre, L.A. Producer: Fomenting ARTS & Bang |
| 2008 Apr | Women's Center Stage Festival, Culture Project, NYC |
| 2008 May | Vortex Theatre in Austin, Texas Producer: Vortex |
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| 2007 May | Tale of 2Cities:An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks is awarded OBIE for premiere ensemble performance
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| 2006 Oct | Tale of 2Cities co-premieres as an ensemble play at UCLA LIVE' s Fifth International Theatre Festival and Performance Space 122 in NYC. Producers: PS. 122/UCLA LIVE/Fomenting ARTS
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| 2006 | Tale of 2Cities:An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks published by Semiotexte in U.S.A. |
| 2004 Jun | What Ever: An American Odyssey In 8 Acts premieres as an ENSEMBLE play at Dad's Garage in Atlanta.
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| 2003 | What Ever: A Living Novel published by Faber/Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S.A. |
| 2003 | October Excerpts from What Ever published in The Paris Review (Fiftieth anniversary edition, the final issue edited by George Plimpton)
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| 2000 | Anthologized in Extreme Exposure: Solo Performance Text of The 20th Century, Editor: Jo Bonney. Publisher: Theater Communications Group. Published in the U.S.A. |
SOLO PERFORMANCE and PLAYS
| 2005 Jan | Eos, Daughter of Dawn 11-minute play commissioned by the 8 &1/2 X 11 Festival, Atlanta, GA. Producer: Dad's Garage |
| 2004 Sep | Solo workshop presentation of Tale of 2Cities at TBA Festival in Portland, Oregon, commissioned by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
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| 2004 Jul | Solo workshop presentation of Tale Of 2Cities at Galway Arts Festival, Ireland, commissioned by Galway Arts Festival.
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| 2004 Mar | Anostalgic (hour-length solo performance) Evidence Room, Los Angeles |
| 2002 Jun | Work-in-progress segment of Tale of 2Cities, solo, in Steppenwolf's "TRAFFIC" series, Chicago. Commissioner: Steppenwolf Theatre Company.
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| 2002 | May Ensemble workshop of Tale at Public Theater |
| 2001-2002 | Playwright-in-Residence at Joseph Papp Public Theater writing the two part, six-act Tale of 2Cities:An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks |
| 2000-2002 | Tale of 2Cities project entailed a series of 10 solo performances (and 1 with actors and a DJ) in Los Angeles and New York, generating material through public performances in alternative community-based venues. |
| 1996-2003 | What Ever: An American Odyssey In 8 Acts. This 10- hour, 100-character solo play/"performance novel", directed by Dudley Saunders is presented two acts per night over four evenings. Complete 8-act cycle performed over fifty times.
These full productions include:
| 2003 Sep | Performance Space 122, NYC Producer: P.S. 122 |
| 2003 Apr | Yale Repertory Theater Complex. New Haven, CT |
| 2002 Oct | Dublin Theater Festival |
| 2002 Jul | Galway Arts Festival, Ireland, Producers: Galway Arts and Steppenwolf Theater Company |
| 2001 | Blackman Auditorium, Boston, Producer: Northeastern University |
| 1999 | Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Producer: Wexner |
| 1998 | Steppenwolf Theater, Chicago, Producer: Steppenwolf |
| 1998 | 2100 Square Feet Theater. L.A., Producer: Peter Soby Production |
| 1997 | Triple X Festival, Amsterdam, Producer:Triple X Festival |
| 1997 | Laurie Anderson's Meltdown Festival, South Bank Center, London. Producer: SBC |
| 1996-1998 | Vortex Theatre in Austin, Texas (6 productions) Producer: Vortex |
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| 1997-2001 | What Ever Radio-Play Broadcasts (Each hosted by Ira Glass)
Excerpts:
| 1997 Oct 31 | "This American Life" |
The Complete What Ever:
| 2001 | WBUR, Boston |
| 1998 Jun | KUNM, Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| 1998 Sep | WBEZ, Chicago |
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| 1984-1994 | 16 standard-length solo pieces (NYC)
Titles Include: White Gilt, Rejuvanhilation, Through the Looking Glass-Diary of an Ex-Ex Go-Go Dancer, Protestitution, Delugians of Grandeur.
Venues Include: La Mama, The Kitchen, The Knitting Factory, Franklin Furnace, Fez, Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, Latin-American Workshop/El Taller, ABC NO Rio, Dixon Place, Westbeth Arts Center, St. Mark's Poetry Project, Performance Space 122 (NYC) |
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AWARDS, COMMISSIONS, GRANTS
| 2007 | Durfee Foundation Grant for Tale |
| 2006 Jul | Awarded City of Los Angeles Artist's Fellowship |
| 2006 | Winner of the inaugural Spalding Gray Award given by UCLA Live and P.S. 122 and Gray's widow Kathleen Russo, to recognize "fearless innovators" who 'fully realize the writing/performing aspects of Gray's legacy." The award also includes a commission for a full production at both venues.
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| 2006 | Winner of OBIE for seven-actor ensemble of Tale of 2Cites |
| 2001 | Development Grant from Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays for Tale |
| 2001 | Playwrights Fellowship from NEA/TCG for Tale |
| 2001 | ASK Theatre Works in Progress Commission for Tale |
| 1998 | Los Angeles Weekly Award for "Best Solo Performance of the Year" |
| 1997 | Austin Critic's Table award for "Best Out-of Town Show" |
| 1995 | Joyce Mertz Gilmore Grant for Development of W.E. at PS 122 |
| 1994 | Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation Honorarium for dare phase of What Ever or "X-Static Woman" |
| 1992 | Franklin Furnace/Jerome Foundation Honorarium "Why We Hate Western Civ" a three woman collaboration |
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