Isabella Russell-Ides
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Isabella Russell-Ides is an American playwright
. She received the 2008 Critics Forum Award for her play Coco & Gigi. She has also received critical acclaim for her works, Leonard's Car ("Outstanding New Play", 2009 Nora's Playhouse, NYC), Fortune Cookie Smash (2007 Best of Fest, Frontera). She is noted for the poetic and heightened language of her texts.
She is also a published poet, having written Getting Dangerously Close To Myself (Slough Press
). She recorded readings of several poems for the Austin Poets Audio Anthology Project, Vol. II, titled Naked Children, produced by media poet Hedwig Gorski
's Perfection Productions in the 1980s
.
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...
. She received the 2008 Critics Forum Award for her play Coco & Gigi. She has also received critical acclaim for her works, Leonard's Car ("Outstanding New Play", 2009 Nora's Playhouse, NYC), Fortune Cookie Smash (2007 Best of Fest, Frontera). She is noted for the poetic and heightened language of her texts.
She is also a published poet, having written Getting Dangerously Close To Myself (Slough Press
Slough Press
Slough Press is an American small press publisher that specializes in unique literature in all genres, publishing since 1976 from Texas in Austin, Dallas, and College Station. Publisher and founder, Dr...
). She recorded readings of several poems for the Austin Poets Audio Anthology Project, Vol. II, titled Naked Children, produced by media poet Hedwig Gorski
Hedwig Gorski
Dr. Hedwig Gorski is an American performance poet and an avant-garde artist who labels her aesthetic as American Futurism...
's Perfection Productions in the 1980s
1980s
File:1980s decade montage.png|thumb|400px|From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifted off in 1981; American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev eased tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The Fall of the Berlin Wall in...
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