MARTHA PATTERSON

These are excerpts from two short plays as a sample of my writing; also included is a brief essay.

 

 

First is from GIRL BEFORE A MIRROR, a drama about Picasso and one of his mistresses, which was produced in Sydney, Australia in 2011 at the Short+Sweet Festival.

 

 

The second excerpt is from ELEANOR, a serio-comedy that will have been produced four times in the US in 2015, by the Image Theater and the Hovey Players' Summer Shorts, both in Massachusetts, by the 906 Theatre Company in Chicago, and by Women in Theatre, in Hawaii.                                          

 

I also write essays.  Here is one about working as an "extra" on movie sets in New York in the '80s - it's titled SUPERNUMERARY - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF AN EXTRA.

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