MICHELE LOWE
is the recipient of the 2010 Francesca Primus Prize for her play Inana, which premiered at the Denver Center Theatre. She was a finalist for the 2010 Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for her plays Inana and Victoria Musica (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), which marks the first time in the award’s 33 year history that a playwright has been independently nominated for two plays in one season. She was also a finalist for the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for Inana. Her work was recently featured in Motherhood Out Loud (Primary Stages, Geffen Theatre, Hartford Stage). She is currently at work on The Break with composer Scott Richards for Signature Theatre. Lowe is the author of The Smell of the Kill (Broadway debut), String of Pearls (Primary Stages; Outer Critics Circle nomination for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play), Map of Heaven (Denver Center Theatre), Backsliding in the Promised Land (Syracuse Stage), and Mezzulah 1946 (City Theatre). She is the librettist and lyricist for the musical A Thousand Words Come to Mind (Zipper Theatre, Joe’s Pub), which she wrote with Richards.
Lowe’s plays have been widely produced regionally as well as translated and staged all over the world. She has been commissioned by Signature Theatre, Denver Center Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Geva Theatre. Her work has been developed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Eugene O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, New Harmony Project, PlayLabs, New York Stage & Film, Hartford Stage's BRAND: NEW Festival, the ACT & Hedgebrook Women Playwrights Festival, and the Lark Play Development Center. Her work appears in New Playwrights/The Best Plays of 2005 (Smith and Kraus, 2006), The Best Women's Stage Monologues 2005 (Smith and Kraus, 2006), and Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann, 2004).
Lowe is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and ASCAP and serves on the board of trustees for the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. www.michelelowe.net
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