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		<title>Got &#8220;Mixed Emotions&#8221; for the 6 Women Playwriting Festival?</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2009/07/28/got-mixed-emotions-for-the-6-women-playwriting-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 6 Women Playwriting Festival has announced its ten-minute playwriting contest exploring the theme “MIXED EMOTIONS.”
This fourth annual women’s playwriting festival is sponsored by The Pikes Peak Arts Council, The Pikes Peak Library District and Manitou Arts Theatre (MAT). The festival will be held April 2010, in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1. Any woman 16 or older [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening the Curtain on Playwright Gender and Still Looking Behind It</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2009/07/27/opening-the-curtain-on-playwright-gender-and-still-looking-behind-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is my daughter&#8217;s 3rd birthday. In celebration, I&#8217;m gifting myself with a box of &#8220;some slack&#8221;. After 3 months plus of not blogging, I&#8217;ve decided to stop beating myself up and just get back to it.
So as I&#8217;m off to make the most of my daughter&#8217;s day, check out WSJ theater critic Terry Teachout&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the Pulitzer be &#8220;Ruined&#8221; by a Mom Playwright?!</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2009/04/19/will-the-pulitzer-be-ruined-by-a-mom-playwright/</link>
		<comments>http://momplaywright.com/2009/04/19/will-the-pulitzer-be-ruined-by-a-mom-playwright/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisab</dc:creator>
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The Pulitzer prizes will be announced tomorrow afternoon at Columbia University. Which play will be awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama? Word has it that Lynn Nottage&#8217;s RUINED may take home the honor. 
Set against the modern day backdrop of the unspeakably brutal Civil war/genocide that has spread from Rawanda to the Congo, RUINED looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hand that Rocks the SAVED in 17 SYLLABLES</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2009/04/19/the-hand-that-rocks-the-saved-in-17-syllables/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 14:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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My &#8220;Baby Handlers&#8221; (L-R) Actors Joan Q. Scott, Gordon Danniels, Sheri Mann Stewart (Director), and Ivy C. Purdie

This past Wednesday I got together with director Sheri Mann Stewart and actors Joan Q. Scott, Ivy C. Purdy and Gordon Danniels (all fine folks) for a first table read and rehearsal of my short play, SAVED IN 17 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration: Vynnie Meli</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2009/04/15/inspiration-vynnie-meli/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This entry’s inspiration is provided by a mom playwright I actually know personally and think is fabulous!
A hearty, “Congratulations!” to Vynnie Meli, whose play, JIM CROW AND THE RHYTHM DARLINGS, has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Essential Theatre Playwriting Award competition. A story centered around  the members of an all-female, &#8220;mixed-race&#8221;  jazz [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration: Melissa James Gibson</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I write for as many hours as I can carve out of a day, or until my sense of humor has utterly abandoned me. These days, since I&#8217;m currently on leave from my day job, that means I write during regular working hours, and then if I feel there&#8217;s something I didn&#8217;t get to that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OK, So I Lied&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2009/03/24/ok-so-i-lied/</link>
		<comments>http://momplaywright.com/2009/03/24/ok-so-i-lied/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said a couple of posts ago that if my 10-minute play submission was selected, you&#8217;d hear it here first. Well&#8230; some time has elapsed since the announcement, so actually it was heard here first.   Sorry. Such is the life of a mom playwright, however well-meaning.
If you&#8217;re in the Atlanta metro area and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inaugural Inspiration: Elizabeth Alexander</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2009/01/20/inaugural-inspiration-elizabeth-alexander/</link>
		<comments>http://momplaywright.com/2009/01/20/inaugural-inspiration-elizabeth-alexander/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inspiration]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diva Studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is a historic day in the United States and for that matter, the world. On this inauguration day of President-elect Barack Obama, after he takes his oath of office, after he gives his highly anticipated speech, the world will hear from Elizabeth Alexander— poet, essayist and momplaywright (Diva Studies). In these weeks since being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Have You Done for Playwriting Lately?</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2009/01/05/what-have-you-done-for-playwriting-lately/</link>
		<comments>http://momplaywright.com/2009/01/05/what-have-you-done-for-playwriting-lately/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!
The holidays are a glad wrap, and I&#8217;m ready to get on with 2009. In the wee hours of this morning I&#8217;ve written and just submitted (on deadline) a 10-minute play for a June production consideration. Not a bad way for a mom playwright to kick off the year, though I feel I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Theatre Wing Grants 50 to Fly Higher</title>
		<link>http://momplaywright.com/2008/12/07/american-theatre-wing-grants-50-to-fly-higher/</link>
		<comments>http://momplaywright.com/2008/12/07/american-theatre-wing-grants-50-to-fly-higher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As my life is still consumed as of late with my new day job, which consists of grant writing and management for a nonprofit, I take personal and professional interest in the announcement of American Theatre Wing (best known for putting on the Tony Awards) giving away $125,000 to 50 NY nonprofit theatre companies this past [...]]]></description>
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