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Joanna McClelland Glass
Joanna McClelland Glass was
born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her plays have been produced in many
North American regional theatres, as well as in England, Ireland, Australia,
and Germany. Her one-act plays, Canadian Gothic and American
Modern, were first produced at the Manhattan Theatre Club in New
York City in 1972. Artichoke, starring Colleen Dewhurst, was
first produced at Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT, in 1974. To
Grandmother’s House We Go, starring Eva LeGallienne, was first
produced at the Alley Theatre, Houston, Texas, moving to Broadway in
1980. Play Memory, directed by Harold Prince, was first produced
at the McCarter Theatre, Princeton, New Jersey, moving to Broadway in
1984. Play Memory garnered a Tony Award nomination that year.
Yesteryear was originally produced by the Canadian Stage Company
in Toronto in 1989, and opened the 1998 summer season of the Blyth Festival.
If We Are Women premiered in the U.S. in the summer of 1993, at
the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA. The Canadian premiere
was a co-production between the Vancouver Playhouse and the Canadian
Stage Company, Toronto, 1994. The British premiere was in London, starring
Joan Plowright, directed by Richard Olivier. Trying was first
produced by Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago in the spring of 2004.
The same production moved to The Promenade Theatre in New York City,
in the fall of 2004.
Ms. Glass has written two novels,
Reflections of a Mountain Summer published by Alfred A. Knopf in
1975, and Woman Wanted published by St. Martin’s Press in 1984.
She has adapted both novels into screenplays. Woman Wanted was
filmed in 1998, starring and directed by Kiefer Sutherland, also starring
Holly Hunter and Michael Moriarty.
In 1984–85, Ms. Glass was
awarded a Rockefeller grant. She was playwright-in-residence that year
at Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT. Other grants include the National
Endowment for the Arts, 1980, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981, the
Francesca Primus Award in 1994 and the Berrilla Kerr Award in 2000.
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