Mississippi Rubicon
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Dorothy Louise‘s produced plays include “Cassatt” at Playhouse 46 in New York; “What You Will” at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia; “October Wedding” at Playwrights’ Horizons in New York. Other work includes “Loveknot”, in a workshop at the Fourth International Women Playwrights’ Conference in Galway, and “Hearts in Harness”, at Fontanonestate, Rome. She has adapted five classics: La Ronde, The Marriage of Figaro, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Servant of Two Masters, and Frankenstein (both published by Ivan Dee). She also wrote the libretto for “Disappearing Act”, about Houdini’s quest to reach his dead mother, with music by John Carbon, and, from this, a song cycle, “Travels with Queen Victoria”, presented in New York. Other New York productions include her one-act, “The Patient Therapist,” a finalist in the Samuel French Original Short Play Festival; “Mirrors in a Window Frame”; and “Sam’s Friends”, the latter also broadcast in the Voice of Vashon drama series. Dorothy has received support from the NEA, the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, the Berrilla Kerr Foundation, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, County Monaghan, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
