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Crystals plays include: 4 EDGES, FLOW, THE KIDS AT MILE SQUARE THEATRE, DEPTH OF SIGHT, IN THE WILD, TOOTH, TRANSLATION OF SIGNS, TURN FOUR, PLAY, and REPLACING THE IMAGE. Her plays have been produced and developed at venues including SoHo Rep, MCC, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Magic Theatre, the Perishable Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Little Theatre, the Flea Theatre, Ergo Theatre and the Knitting Factory, amongst others. FILM includes: SEVEN VARIATIONS ON THE SAME LOVER, currently in development for Weird Sisters. MUSICAL THEATRE WORK includes: THAT’S ANDY (lyrics/book) and NEVERMORE (lyrics) both currently being developed with director Robert Jay Cronin for Ergo Theatre & Northern Stage Theatre; 72 DEVILS (lyrics/book); and PERFECTOMUNDO (lyrics/book). She is a two-time recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant through the Ensemble Studio Theatre, a recipient of the Phyllis B. Abram Award for Drama and of a Jim Henson Foundation Grant for her collaborations with the puppet theatre Drama of Works. She is a two-time finalist for the Princess Grace Fellowship, a finalist for the Rosenthal Prize and the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Heideman Award and a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference. Her publications include: TURN FOUR, (New Journal of Theatre) TOOTH (POEMS & PLAYS), and various monologues in Hotblooded: New Monologues by the Members of Youngblood (Playscripts.com). Crystal was featured in the February 2004 issue of AMERICAN THEATRE in a roundtable discussion on the puppet theatre company Drama of Works. Her plays for Drama of Works include: THE BALLAD OF PHINEAS P. GAGE, developed at Arts at St. Ann’s and produced at HERE; ON THE BACKS OF FISHES, a part of her full length WARRIOR, which toured this fall at Theatre for the New City, P.S. 122, Perishable Theatre, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Manhattan Theatre Source, and the Barents Region International Puppetry Festival in Oulu, Finland; and THE SWORD OF YAMATO, also a section of WARRIOR, which premiered at BRIC Studio this past December. The full three acts of WARRIOR debuted last May at the Istanbul International Puppetry Festival and moved from there to the Prague International Puppetry Festival. Crystal is a member of E.S.T. as well as the MCC Theatre Playwrights’ Coalition, where several of her plays have been presented as part of their Playlab Series. She is also a member of the Dramatists Guild and a former member of EST’s Youngblood. |
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