This is the second in a series of profiles of the playwrights who have shows presented in the ART New Works Festival. This is Carol Carpenter, whose play, SWEET SWEET SPIRIT will be read on Friday, June 22nd at 8:30 pm.
Carol Carpenter writes about small town people who live far, far away from New York City, and she’s proud to be part of the Acadiana’s inaugural New Works Festival. Her play Sweet, Sweet Spirit will be part of Barrow Group’s 2012-2013 Development Series, won the High Desert Play Festival, and is being produced in Fall 2012 at the American Southwest Theater Company. Her play Good Lonely People won Best Playwriting at Planet Connections, Audience Favorite Award at MTWorks' NewBorn Play Festival, and was a semifinalist for Pandora Productions New Play Fest (Louisville). Her newest play, The Guadalupe, is part of On the Square’s 2012-2013 development season.
Other work has been headlined by Lily Tomlin and Bruce Vilanch (El Rey Theater, Los Angeles) and has received readings at Manhattan Theater Club, Geisberg Studio, Arclight Theater, Santa Fe Playhouse, Garson Theater Center, Columbia Gorge Repertory Theater, and the Engine House Theatre. Her monologues have appeared in the popular guerilla theatre piece The Inauguration Different (Santa Fe) and in Storyboard: A Collection of Monologues. This year, she will be featured in Sunstone Press's upcoming book on Southwestern theater artists.
In her previous life, Carpenter published five young adult novels with Random House Children's Books under her pen name Amanda Christie, spent several years as an editor and writer at Paramount Pictures, and she holds a master's degree in dramatic writing from the University of Southern California. She is a Sewanee playwriting alum and a proud company member of MTWorks.
More about her work at www.carolcarpenterwrites.com.
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