Synopses & Reviews
- Away Alone by Janet Noble
- Pill Hill by Samuel L. Kelley
- Judevine by David Budbill
- Daytrips by Jo Carson
Synopsis
An anthology of four American Plays.
Synopsis
An anthology of four American Plays.
About the Author
David Budbill was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1949 to a streetcar driver and a minister's daughter. He is the author of five plays, five books of poems, a collection of short stories, a novel, and a picture book for children. Among his prizes and honors are a National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship in 1991, a Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry in 1981, and The Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award for Fiction in 1978.Jo Carson lives and works in Johnson City, Tennessee, where she writes plays, short stories, essays, and poems. She has authored a series of monologues and dialogues that she has performed for audiences at music festivals. A collection of this material, Stories I Ain't Told Nobody Yet, is available from Orchard Books in New York. She has been an occasional commentator on National public Radio's All Things Considered for five years. Carson won awards in 1984 from the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services and in 1986 from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her script Daytrips received the 1989 Joseph P. Kesserlring Award. In the spring of 1991 Carson was commissioned to write a full-length play about the life of Davy Crockett.Janet Noble was born in Grover's Mills, New Jersey. Since 1963 she has been living and working in New York City. She has worked as a professional actress in regional and off-off-Broadway theatres and is especially happy to have appeared in The Grand Tarot with Charles Ludlam and his Ridiculous Theatre Company. Her plays have been included in the Ensemble Studio Theatre's annual Octoberfests of New One Act Plays and, in 1984, was a resident at Edward Albee's William Flanagan memorial foundation for Creative Persons in Montauk, New York. Noble has maintained a long association with The Irish Arts Center in New York City, where she has acted as well as directed and co-produced. Her first full-length play, Kiss My Blarney Stone, premiered there in 1987. She was named one of the top one hundred Irish Americans in 1990 by Irish American Magazine.