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Carolyn Gage
Portland, ME
(207) 774-4231
carolyn@carolyngage.com
www.carolyngage.com

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

Portland State University, Portland, OR
MA, Theatre Arts, Emphasis in Directing

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS

2014 Featured playwright, 53rd World Theatre Day (UNESCO sponsored) Performing
Gender and Violence in Contemporary National and Transnational Contexts,
Universit degli Studi Roma Tre.
2014 Hatchfund Grant recipient.
2013 Good Idea Grant recipient, Maine Arts Commission.
2011 Winner, Maine Literary Award in Drama, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
2011 Finalist, Heideman Award, National 10-Minute Play Contest, Actors Theatre of
Louisville
2011 Landsdowne Visiting Scholar, University of Victoria, BC.
2010 Most Influential People in Portland Award, Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME.
2009 10 Most Intriguing People in Maine, Portland Monthly, Portland, ME.
2009 Wurlitzer Foundation Residency (Robert Chesley Foundation Grant), Taos, NM.
2009 National Winner, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays,
Lambda Literary Award in Drama, Lambda Literary Foundation.
2008 Nominee, Dublin City Counsel Intercultural Dialogue Award, Ireland.
2008 Nominee, Oscar Wilde Award for Best New Writing, Dublin International Gay
Theatre Festival.
2007 Nominee, Michael MacLiammor Award (Best Female Performer), Dublin
International Gay Theatre Festival.
2007 Libra Series Residency, Celebration of Writers, University of Maine at Machias.
2007 Maine Literary Award in Drama, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Portland.
2006 Ugly Ducklings: The Documentary,(documentary about a play of mine)
premiered at Frameline International Film Festival, San Francisco.
2005 Maine Arts Commission Good Idea Grant, Augusta, ME.
2005 Lynda Hart Memorial Grant, Astraea Lesbian Justice Foundation, NYC.
2004 Ugly Ducklings, nominated for American Theatre Critics/Steinberg Award. (Best
new play of the year produced outside New York) by American Theatre Critics
Association.

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2004 Ugly Ducklings, National Lesbian Theatre Award, Curve Magazine, LA.
2004 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grant, Hollywood, CA.
2003 Invited to archive personal papers at University of Oregon Special Collections,
Eugene.
2003 Maine Women Writers Research Support Grant, Univ. of New England,
Westbrook, ME.
2003 Inclusion in Maine Arts Commission MaineArtistsAccess, a juried roster of
professionals.
2002 Open Meadows Foundation Grant, NYC.
2002 Invited to perform at the World Summit for Economic Sustainability,
Johannesburg.
2002 Named one of Portlands Most Influential, Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME.
2002 Jeanine C. Rae Culture Award, Women in the Arts, National Womens Music
Festival, Muncie, IN. (Former recipients include Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Nikki
Giovanni)
2001 Eleanor Haney Fund Grant, Portland, ME.
1998-9 Guest Lecturer at Bates College, Lewiston, ME.
1997 Invited to join the roster of national speakers bureau Speak Out!
1997 Amazon All Stars: 13 Lesbian Plays named National Finalist for Lambda Literary
Award.
1996 National Winner, Nancy Dean Distinguished Playwriting Award, Sisters on Stage,
Lesbian Theatre Conference, NYC.
1996 Named Contributing Editor to On the Issues, New York.
1995 National Winner, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grant, Tucson, AZ.
1995 National Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards. (Drama) for The Second Coming of
Joan of Arc and Other Plays.
1990 Writers Fellowship, Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, Portland, OR.
1990 Individual Artists Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR.
1989 Walden Fellowship, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR.
1988 Oregon Playwrights Award, Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, Portland, OR.
1984 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
1983 American College Theatre Festival, National Finalist (Portland State University
production Waltz of the Toreadors), the Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.
1982-1984 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Portland State University, OR.

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS

2012 Starting from Zero: One-Act Plays about Lesbians in Love, Gage Press,
Portland, ME.
2011 Hotter Than Hell: More Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival, Gage Press.
2011 The Triple Goddess, Gage Press, Portland, ME.

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2010 Three Comedies, Gage Press, Portland, ME.
2010 Supplemental Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival, Gage Press, Portland, ME
2009 Black Eye and Other Short Plays, Gage Press, Portland, ME.
2009 Like Theres No Tomorrow: Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy,
(new edition),Gage Press, Portland, ME.
2009 The Spindle and Other Lesbian Fairy Tales, Gage Press, Portland, ME.
2009 Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors: Revised and Expanded,
Outskirts Press, Parkman, CO.
2008 Sermons for a Lesbian Tent Revival, Gage Press, Portland, ME.
2008 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays, Outskirts Press,
Parkman, CO.
2008 Nine Short Plays, Outskirts Press, Parkman, CO.
1999 Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors, Odd Girls Press, Anaheim, CA.
1997 Like Theres No Tomorrow: Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy,
Common Courage Press, Monroe, ME.
1997 Take Stage! How To Direct and Produce A Lesbian Play, Scarecrow Press,
Lantham, MD.
1994 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays, Herbooks, Santa Cruz,
CA.

PUBLICATIONS: NOVELLAS & BOOKLETS

2010 Birth of a Lesbian: A Science Fiction Autobiography, Gage Press, Portland,
ME. (taken out-of-print by author).
2010 13 Propositions for Rewiring the Lesbian Brain, Gage Press, Portland, ME.
2010 The Gaia Papers: In Search of a Science of Gaia, Gage Press, Portland, ME.
2007 The Princess of Pain, with illustrations by Sudie Rakusin, Harrington Lesbian
Fiction Quarterly, Binghamton, NY.

PUBLICATIONS: INDIVIDUAL PLAYS

2009-2013 All of my plays published online (Kindle, Nook, iBooks, etc).
2013 Jane Addams and the Devil Baby, Patricide, and Entracte in Survivors Speak,
Volume III, ed. by Dakota Draconi, Breaking the Silence, Fresno, CA.
2013 Lace Curtain Irish, The Book of Estrogenius 2011, Estrogenius Festival, NYC.
2013 Lace Curtain Irish, The Hatchet: A Journal of Lizzie Borden and Victorian
Studies, Winter, Fall River, MA.
2013 The Countess and the Lesbians, Queer and Celtic: On the Irish LGBT
Experience, ed. by Wesley Koster, HandType Press.
2008 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc (audio recording), CD Baby: Portland, OR.
2008 Bite My Thumb, Sinister Wisdom, Issue #76, Sebastopol, CA.

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2008 The Parmachene Belle, The Harbor Journal, Vol. II, Cozy Harbor Press,
Southport, ME.
2006 A Labor Play, Sinister Wisdom, Sebastopol, CA, Winter.
2005 The Drum Lesson, Sinister Wisdom, Issue 64, Sebastopol, CA.
2005 .The Obligatory Scene, Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, Binghamton, NY.
2004 The Rules of the Playground, Femspec, vol. 5, Issue 2, Lexington Books,
Lanham, MD.
2004 Ugly Ducklings, At Play: An Anthology of Maine Drama, Levant Heritage Library
Press, Levant, ME.
2004 Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist, in Under Thirty: Plays for a New Generation,
ed. by Eric Lane, Vintage Books, NYC.
2003 The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, Samuel French, Inc. NYC.
2003 The Parmachene Belle, Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, Vol. IV, Issue 1,
Binghamton, NY.
2003 The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman, Voices Made Flesh: Performing
Womens Autobiography, ed. Lynn C. Miller, University of Wisconsin Press:
Madison, WI.
2000 Heterosexuals Anonymous. Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly, Vol. II,
Binghamton, NY.
1999 Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist. Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays, Twenty-
Third Series, Samuel French, Inc., NYC.
1997 Patricide. Night of 1,000 Playwrights, Rain City Projects, Seattle.
1996 Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist, introduction by Aishah Rahman, Rain City
Projects, Seattle.
1996 The Amazon All-Stars. Amazon All Stars: Thirteen Lesbian Plays, edited by
Rosemary Keefe Curb, intro.to play by Bonnie Morris, Applause Books, NY.
1993 Louisa May Incest. No Dobermans Allowed: A Dramatic Argument for
Separatist Theatre. Lesbian Culture, ed. Penelope and Wolfe, Crossing Press,
Freedom, CA.

PUBLICATIONS: TRANSLATION

2014 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, translated into Italian by Valentina
Rapetti. (pending).
2013 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays translated by Chen
San into Mandarin.
2012 _ translated by Chen San (Mandarin translation of The Second
Coming of Joan of Arc )
2009 La Rsurrection de Jeanne dArc, translated by Stephanie Sullivan, Gage
Press.

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2007 BTOPOTO HPHECTBHE HA XAHA APK, translated by Victoria Koleva
(Bulgarian translation of The Second Coming of Joan of Arc).
2001 Joana Dark: A Revolta translated by Marie Amaral (Portuguese translation of
The Second Coming of Joan of Arc.)

PUBLICATIONS: ADAPTATION

2010 A Womans Book of Healing (an adaptation of Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy), Gage Press.

PUBLICATIONS: JOURNAL ARTICLES

2014 The Catacomb Culture of Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights History, a review of
Baby You Are My Religion by Marie Cartier, Sinister Wisdom, Sebastopol.
(pending).
2013 Survivor Tree in About Place Journal, edited by Annie Finch, Vol.II, Issue 1,
Black Earth Institute.
2013 Intensely Personal, Intensely Political: Interview with Lesbian-Feminist
Filmmaker Catherine Crouch, Sinister Wisdom, Sebastopol, CA.
2012 I Have Come to Show You Death, (including adaptation of Since I Died), Trivia:
Voices of Women, Fall, 2012. www.triviavoices.com
2012 Becca and the Woman Prince, The Lavender Review, Issue 4.
2012 Lyrics from The Amazon All-Stars and Women on the Land, in Sinister
Wisdom, Vol. 85, (humor issue), Sebastapol, CA.
2011 My First Lesbians, Chokecherries, Society of the Muse of the Southwest, Taos,
NM.
2010 For Rachel Crites, Sinister Wisdom, Vol. 81, Sebastapol, CA.
2009 The Inconvenient Truth About Teena Brandon, Trivia: A Journal of Womens
Voices, Issue 9, January. www.triviavoices.net.
2009 For Want of A Goddess, Trivia: A Journal of Womens Voices,
www.triviavoices.net.
2008 The Happy Hooker Revisited, Trivia: A Journal of Womens Voices , Issue 7/8,
September 2008, www.triviavoices.net
2008 A Lesbian Archivist Discovers A Hidden Literary Treasure in Southern Oregon,
Lambda Book Report, Spring/Summer, Washington, DC.
2007 In Search of a Lesbian Stage Tradition, The International Gay and Lesbian
Review, Issue 14.2, March/April, Cambridge.
2007 Clear and Fierce: A Tribute to Andrea Dworkin, Trivia: A Journal of Womens
Voices, Issue 5, Feb. 2007. www.triviavoices.net .
2006 Keening in Bangor, Sinister Wisdom: A Journal for Lesbians, Vol. 68,
Sebastopol, CA

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2006 When Sex Is Not the Metaphor for Intimacy, Trivia: A Journal of Womens
Voices, Issue 3, Feb. 2006. www.triviavoices.net .
2004 Lizbeth Borden and Bridget Sullivan: Fall River Scapegoats and Mascots, The
Hatchet: Journal of Lizzie Borden Studies, Vol. 1, Issue 4, August/Sept., Orlando,
FL.
2004 Grammarchy, (poem) Sinister Wisdom: A Journal for Lesbians, vol 63, Summer
Berkeley, CA.
2000 My Life Among the Dolls, Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring, Ann Arbor, MI
1998 The Case for Marlowe as the Bard, Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, Vol. 5,
Number 4., Cambridge, MA.
1996 Terri Lynne Jewell: A Tribute, (edited) Womanist Theory and Research, Spring/
Summer, Athens, GA,
1996 Dissociative Disorders and Sex, Lesbian Ethics, Albuquerque, NM.
1995 Lesbian Musical Theatre: Subverting The Genre, Dramatists Guild Quarterly,
Spring, NYC.
1993 Il Teatro No Agli Uomini: Carolyn Gage, Bollettina del Cli, Rome, Spring.
1993 Cutting the Cord. Lesbian Ethics, Albuquerque, NM, Summer.
1992 Le No To Men Thtre, Lesbia, Paris, France
1992 Homophobia and Womens Theatre, Dramatists Guild Quarterly, New York
1992 Pressure to Heal. Lesbian Ethics, Albuquerque, NM.
1989 No Dobermans Allowed: A Dramatic Argument for SeparatistTheatre. Trivia: A
Journal of Womens Voices, XV, Amherst, MA.
1990 Louisa May Incest. Trivia, vol. 16 & 17, Amherst, MA.
1989 Louisa May Incest. Portland Review, Portland, OR.
1988 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc. Sinister Wisdom, XXXV, Berkeley, CA.

PUBLICATIONS: IN ANTHOLOGIES

2012 (Second Edition publication) Rewriting the Script, Live Through This: On
Creativity and Self-Destruction, ed.by Sabrina Chapadiev, Seven Stories
Press, NYC.
2012 Through the Looking Glass, WeMoon 2013, Mother Tongue Ink, Estacada,
OR.
2012 Interview, In Her Words: 25 Interviews with KickAss Women in the Art and
Entertainment, edited by N.E. Francis.
2011 Chrysalis Haiku, WeMoon 2011, Chrysalis, Mother Tongue Ink, Estacada,
OR.
2011 The Smart Teacher, in Anthology of WeMoon Art and Writing: In the Spirit
of WeMoon: Celebrating 30 Years, WeMoon Press, Estacada, OR.
2010 Orbits in Beyond Inclusion, Beyond Empowerment: A Developmental
Strategy to Liberate Everyone by Dr. Leticia Nieto, publisher TBA.

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2010 The Furies, in Womans Work: The Short Stories, Girlchild Press, Glendale,
CA.
2008 Rewriting the Script, Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction,
ed.by Sabrina Chapadiev, Seven Stories Press, NYC.
2008 Black Bean Dip, The Butch Cookbook, ed. by Lee Lynch, Nel Ward, and Sue
Hardesty, Teal Ribbon Publications, Newport, OR.
2006 Keening in Bangor, Those They Left Behind: Interviews, Stories, Essays And
Poems By Survivors Of Suicide, ed. Karen Mueller Bryson, Transformational
Stories.
2004 Excerpts from The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, in The Best
Womens Stage Monologues of 2003, ed. by Lepidus, D.L., Smith and Kraus,
Lyme, NH.
2003 My Life Among the Dolls, Secret Spaces of Childhood, ed. by Elizabeth
Goodenough, Michigan University Press, Ann Arbor, MI.
2003 Gaia Carols, WeMoon 03: Gaia Rhythms for Womyn, Mother Tongue Ink,
Estacada, OR.
2003 The Second Floor of J. C. Penney, Hard Jobbin: Womens Experiences of
the Workplace, Ride the Wind Press, Beausejour, Manitoba.
1999 Hidden Disability: A Coming Out Story, Restricted Access: Lesbians and
Disability, ed. by Victoria K. Brownworth, The Seal Press, Seattle, WA.
1999 Joan of Arc, The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures,
ed. Bonnie Zimmerman and George Haggerty, Garland Publishing, Inc.,
Levittown, PA
1998 Essay on lesbian theatre in The St. James Press Gay and Lesbian Almanac,
St. James Press, Detroit, MI.
1998 Becca and the Woman Prince, in Love Shook My Heart: New Lesbian Love
Stories, ed. by Irene Zahava, Alyson Publications, Seattle, WA.
1998 The Smart Teacher, WeMoon 98: Wise Womyn Ways, Mother Tongue Ink,
Estacada, OR.

PUBLICATION: ARTICLES IN OTHER PUBLICATIONS

2014 Saving Mr. Banks: A Lesbian Perspective, Windy City Times, Chicago.
2013 Memories of Caitlin, and Thinking about Julia Penelope, Maize: A Lesbian
Country Magazine.
2012 Review of Intimate Wars by Merle Hoffman, Rain and Thunder, Northampton,
MA.
2012 Dr. Sally Ride: The Frontier of Identity, On the Issues, Summer.
2012 Me, Babe and Prying Open the Closets of Lesbian Athletes, On the Issues,
Spring.
2012 Stealing the Herd, HowlAround: Journal of the Theater Commons.

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2011 Orpheus of Incest (review of Christine Starks Nickels), Rain and Thunder,
Northampton, MA.
2011 The Woman Behind the Woman Behind Social Security, On the Issues, NY.
2011 How I Came To Write a Play Where the Lesbian Doesnt Kill Herself, Rain and
Thunder, Northampton, MA. (reprint).
2011 A Lesbian Archivist Discovers A Hidden Literary Treasure in Southern
Oregon,(reprinted), Maize: A Lesbian Country Magazine, Winter.
2010 Remembering Wilma Mankiller, Rain and Thunder, Northampton, MA.
2010 Vulval Chaos: The Poetry of Susan Hawthorne, Lambda Book Report, March.
2010 Medals for Military Sexual Trauma, in Quiet Mountain Essays.
2009 Woodstock: A Counter-Countercultural Perspective, Rain and Thunder, Issue
44, Northampton, MA.
2009 Road Trip: Maines Lesbian History Goes a Long, Long Way Back, The Portland
Phoenix, June 27, http://thephoenix.com/Portland/News/85565-Road-trip/
2009 The Ladies Room: A Complicated Conversation, On the Issues,
http://www.ontheissuesmagazine.com/cafe2/article/59
2008 The War I Know: Sidelined, A to Z,On the Issues: A Magazine of Critical
Independent Thinking, Fall. www.ontheissuesmagazine.org.
2008 Carolyn Gage Discusses Her Experience with Self-Publishing, Seasons: The
Quarterly Newsletter of the International Centre for Women Playwrights, Vol. 6,
No. 2.
2008 Anna Politskaya off our backs womens newsjournal, vol. 37, no. 2/3,
Washington, DC.
2007 Shakespeare Got It Right, Lambda Book Report, Vol. 15, Issue 1, Winter 2007.
2006 Tee Corinne: Lesbian Artist and Revolutionary, off our backs womens
newsjournal, Vol. 36, No. 3, Washington, DC.
2006 Ugly Ducklings Project Maine Womens Journal.
2006 Playwrights Need Not Apply, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance Newsletter,
Portland.
2006 Lesbian Children, Lesbian Rights, Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist
Journal of Discussion and Activism, Winter, Northampton, MA.
2003 Monique Wittig: In Memoriam, in off our backs, vol. xxxiv, Washington, DC.
2003 Michael Moore Off Target in off our backs, vol. xxxiii, no. 1/2 , Washington, DC
2002 A Lesbian Looks at The Vagina Monologues, Rain and Thunder: A Radical
Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, Summer, Northampton, MA.
2001 Review of Camera, Woman in Lesbian Review of Books, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Hilo, HI.
2001 Letter to a Friend Who Self-Identifies as Sex-Positive Rain and Thunder: A
Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, Northampton, MA.
2000 Lizzie Borden and the Labrys, Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of
Discussion and Activism, Issue 4, Winter, Northampton, MA.

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1999 Guess Whos Not Coming to Dinner: A Feminist Reconsideration of Judy
Chicagos The Dinner Table, Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of
Discussion and Activism, Issue 2, Spring, Northampton, MA.
1999 Review of Fling Wide the Eyed Universe by Julia Penelope, Lesbian Review of
Books, Winter, Hilo, HI
1999 Review of Passing Performance and When Romeo Was a Woman, Lambda
Book Report, Spring, Washington, DC.
1999 Some Thoughts on the Matthew Shepard Slaying, Oranga Whakara (Parallel
Lives), Otautahi (Christchurch), Aotearoa (New Zealand).
1998 Review of Rachel Carson:Witness for Nature, Lesbian Review of Books, Hilo,
HI.
1998 Gentrification, (review of Stagestruck) Lambda Book Report, Vol. 7, No. 5,
Wash., DC.
1998 Taking That Leap! (review of The Womens Circus) Lesbian Review of Books,
Hilo, HI.

PODCASTS and BROADCASTING

2013-2014 The Lesbian Tent Revival Radio Hour Podcasts, WGDR (Goddard
College Radio), Woman-Stirred Radio hosted by Merry Gangemi.
2013 The Lesbian Tent Revival Radio Hour Podcasts (DVD, ten hours of sermons.)
2012-2013 The Lesbian Tent Revival Radio Hour (monthly subscription podcast
site).
2012-2013 Lesbian Radio, WMPG, Portland, Maine. Monthly host.

CITATIONS/ EXCERPTS/ REVIEWS/ INTERVIEWS

2014 Interview in Local Playwright Selected for World Theatre Day, by Timothy Gillis,
Portland Sun, Feb. 27, Portland, ME.
2013 Interview on WKAR (NPR affiliate station) for Current State, East Lansing, MI,
November 7.
2013 Interviewed by Brook Rosini for The Rainbow Times, October, Boston.
2013 Interviewed by Carol Polcovar, for the Fresh Fruit Festival blog.
2013 Interviewed by Nayiree Roubinian in Rain and Thunder, Northampton, MA.
2013 Interviewed by Megan Grumbling, "Carolyn Gage's New Short Plays Give
Women Voice," Portland Phoenix, April 10.
2013 Interviewed for Good Day Maine, Fox 23, Portland, ME, April 11.
2013 Interviewed by Bob Keyes, "Drama Scene with Acorn Studio's Little Sister," for
Portland Press Herald, April 10.
2013 Interviewed by Keita Whitten for Mama Africa Show on WMPG, Portland, ME,
April 10.

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2013 Interviewed by Daniel Mosher on Desert Island Discs, WMPG, Portland, ME.
2012 Lizzie Borden Took an Axe Or Did She? (interview by Bob Keyes), Portland
Press Herald, Jan. 5, Portland, Maine.
2012 Interview and excerpt of Lesbian Tent Revival, Lesbiana: A Parallel Revolution, a
film by Myriam Fougre, Montreal.
2012 Interview by Chen San in Les+, (translated to Mandarin), Beijing, China.
2012 Interviewed by Cindy Wolf Boynton about Louisa May Incest for Literary New
England on BlogTalk Radio, May 1.
2012 "Remembering Babe: Lesbian playwright Carolyn Gage premieres her musical on
golf legend Babe Didrikson" by Neil Cohen, Echo Magazine, Phoenix, AZ.2012
2012 "... Babe Aims to Bring HIstory to Life" by Kerry Lengel, AZ Central, Phoenix, AZ.
2012 Adrienne Rich Tribute Show, Lesbian Radio, WMPG, Portland, ME, April 4.
2011 Interviewed by Beth Maples-Bays, for One 4 All Magazine, East Tennessee.
2011 Interviewed by Merry Gangemi for Woman-Stirred Radio, WGDR (Goddard
College Radio), June 24.
2011 Interviewed by Keita Whiten on Mama Africa Show, WMPG radio, Portland,
ME, Feb. 13.
2011 Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist excerpted in When Johnny and Jane
Come Marching Home: How All of Us Can Help Veterans by Paula Caplan,
MIT Press.
2011 Interviewed by Brenda Starr for Through the Eyes of Women, KHSU, Arcata,
CA, May 9 (aired).
2011 Interviewed by Danielle Orr for the Homepage, KHSU, Arcata, CA., April 1.
2011 "Joan of Arc Playwright Performs Her Work," interviewed by Adrian Chamberlain
for The Times Colonist, Victoria, BC., March 9.
2011 Interviewed by Tynan Power, Rainbow Times, Northampton, MA, March 3.
2010 Interviewed by Emily Ptak-Pressman for Her Turn, WORT radio, Madison, WI.,
July 14 (aired August 22.)
2010 Cited in Writers from Oregon: Ken Kesey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Vladimir
Nabokov, Matt Groening, Chuck Palahniuk, Damon Knight, John Zerzan,
Barry Lopez, General Books LLC.
2010 Interviewed by Gail Wartell about A Womans Book of Healing, for Culture
Matters, WMPG, Portland, ME. (Aug. 10)
2010 Interviewed by Maya Johnson for Arts Notebook, Radio Centre-Ville, Montreal,
about The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, August 21.
2010 Interviewed in Lesbian Theatre article by Lisa Haas for Curve Magazine, San
Francisco.
2010 Dykely Ever After: Carolyn Gages The Spindle and Other Lesbian Fairy
Tales reviewed by Nayiree Roubinian, Rain and Thunder, Northampton, MA,
Spring.

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2010 Leading Ladies cited in Laurette Taylor: American Stage Legend by Lynn
Kear, Macfarland Press.
2010 As You Like It reviewed in The Race Is On: Running Through Acorns 24-Hour
Play Festival by Megan Grumbling, Portland Phoenix, May 5.
2010 Writers in the Storm, Taos News, Taos, NM, Feb. 18.
2010 Interviewed on Alternative Perspectives, WRFG, Atlanta, GA, March 16.
2009 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Selected Plays reviewed by Rebecca
Bowles Lawson in Herstoria, Issue 4, Winter, p. 51, Wallasey, UK.
2009 Encore, encore, (Babe: An Olympian Musical named one of 10 most
noteworthy lesbian plays of the year), Curve Magazine, December.
2009 Interviewed for Dyke Drama: The Enduring Power of Lesbian Theater by
Kathleen Warnock edited by Kat Long, in Go Magazine, October 8.
http://www.gomag.com/article/dyke_drama/
2009 10 Most Intriguing People in Maine, interviewed by Donna Stuart for Portland
Magazine, November.
2009 Interview on Censorship of Butch Archetypes,by Dixie Treichel and John
Townsend, KFAI, Minneapolis for This Way Out, Program #1,120, distributed
September 14.
2009 The Spindle & Other Lesbian Fairy Tales: A Feminist Retelling of Sleeping
Beauty & Other Classics, by N. E. Francis, Sacramento Arts and Entertainment
Examiner, August 23.
2009 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc cited in Finding Out: Introduction to
LGBT Studies, ed. by Deborah T. Meems, Sage Press.
2009 Lesbians Unite: Reclaiming the State's History and Image, by Megan
Grumbling, Portland Phoenix, Aug. 26,
http://thephoenix.com/Portland/Arts/88695-Lesbians-unite/
2009 Greetings from Lesbos, Maine: A Theatrical Journey through Maine's Lesbian
History, N. E. Francis, Sacramento Arts and Entertainment Examiner, April 19,
2009.
2009 Cited in The Gendercator, of How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the
Blogosphere by J. Lawless in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol.
15, Number 1.
2009 Portland playwright wins honor, by Bob Keyes, Sunday Maine Telegram,
June 12, 2009.
2009 A Conversation with American playwright and actor, Carolyn Gage: Part One and
Part Two by N.E. Francis, Sacramento Arts and Entertainment Examiner, June
13 & 14.
2009 The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman cited in Ethnodrama: An Anthology
of Reality Theatre by Johnny Saldaa, Crossroads in Qualitative Inquiry.
2009 Interviewed (as Francis) in Christian Science: Women, Healing and the
Church by Dr. Deidre Michell, University Press of America.

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2008 Interviewed by Emilie Roye for Lesbian Archives of Sonoma County.
2008 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and interview by Frieda Werden, Womens
International Newsgathering Service (WINGS), http://womens-
studies.usf.edu/wings.aspx
2008 Babe: An Olympic Musical reviewed in Babe hits the pin on the head by Lydia
Howell, in The Twin Cities Daily Planet, September 11.
2008 Interviewed by Karina Mangu-Ward for The Butch Casting Project, October 7,
http://www.butchcastingproject.com.
2008 Podcast with Merle Hoffman on Sarah Palin and the Apocalypse, On the Issues
Magazine, October 31, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/HeadingLeft/On-
the-Issues-Magazine/2008/10/31/Sarah-Palin-and-the-Apocalypse
2008 Interviewed for The Life and Times of a Stellar Athlete, by Lydia Howell,
Minnesota Womens Press, September 3, Minneapolis.
2008 Interview by Lydia Howell, Art Matters, August 14, KFAI, Minneapolis.
2008 Front Line Lesbians (interview about The Countess and the Lesbians), Gay
Community News, August, No. 224, Dublin.
2008 Cited in Portrayals of Joan of Arc in Film by Margaret Maddox, Edwin Mellen
Press, p.1.
2008 Review of Nine Short Plays by Bonnie Morris in Lambda Book Report, Vol. 16,
Issue 3, Los Angeles, CA.
2008 Rewriting the Script cited in Heather ONeills review of Live Through This on
AfterEllen.com, http://www.afterellen.com/books/2008/7/acrossthepage
2008 Interview, BloomingOut, June 12, WFHB, Bloomington, IN.
2008 Interviewed by C. S. Soong, Against the Grain, June 17, KPFA, San Francisco.
2008 Carolyn Gage: Lesbian Playwright, by Carol Anne Douglas, off our backs, vol.
37, no. 2/3, Washington, DC.
2008 Theatre Review of The Countess and the Lesbians by Sara Keating, The Irish
Times, Dublin, May 14.
2008 Siblings Unrivalled by Niamh ODea, (review of The Countess and the
Lesbians), The Metro, Dublin, May 20.
2008 Gay Theatre Festival Reviews by K. Harvey, (The Countess and the
Lesbians), Queer ID, Dublin, May 16.
2007 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc (performance) reviewed by Gordon Farrel
for Gay Community News, Rep. of Ireland, May 18, http://www.gcn.ie.
2007 Review of The Piano cited in Jane Campion (Contemporary Film Directors) by
Kathleen McHugh, University of Illinois Press.
2007 Cited in Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History by Milton Semett, Duke
University Press, Durham, NC.
2007 Interviewed by Georgia Jacobson in Ugly Ducklings: A Playwright Teaches How
to Play Right in New Moon, September/October 2007, Duluth, MN.

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2007 Lesbians Take to the Stage, by Heather ONeill, AfterEllen..com,
http://www.afterellen.com/node/4606
2007 For Rachel Crites and Some Kiswnd of Miracle or Something, Maine Radio
Poets Project, WRFR, Rockland, ME.
2007 Cited in Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film,
and Fiction by Troy Howard, Cambridge University Press, p. 134.
2006 Cited in Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Womens Bookstores in the United
States, by Junko Onosaka, Routledge, p. 143.
2006 Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature, Meredith Miller, Scarecrow Press,
p.70.
2006 Cited in The Lavender Locker Room by Patricia Nell Warren, Wildcat Press, p.
32.
2006 Monique Wittig: In Memoriam cited in The Butterfly Effect by Susan
Hawthorne, Spinifex Press, Melbourne, Australia.
2006 The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman, cited in The Constructed Self, in
Sage Handbook of Performance Studies, by D. Soyini Madison and Judith
Hamera, Sage Publications, London, p. 171.
2006 A 21
st
Century Joan of Arc, Interview with Erika Brincat, Malta Today,
February 12.
2006 The Lavender Locker Room: 3000 Years of Great Athletes Whose Sexual
Orientation Was Different, ed. by Patricia Nell Warren, Wildcat Press.
2006 Interview with Dixie Treichel, WKAI, Minneapolis, MN.
2006 Acknowledgements, America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth
Dickinson by J. Matthew Gallman, Oxford University Press, p. 10.
2005 Cited in Did Lizzie Borden Axe For It? By David Rehak , Just My Best Book
Publishing Company, p. 57
2005 Cited in Hamlet: History and Commentary, ed. by Alex Jack, Amber Waves
Press.
2005 Cited in Playwriting: The Structure of Action, Revised and Expanded Edition
by Sam Smiley and Norman Bert, Yale University Press, p.94.
2005 Cited in Theater Festivals: Best Worldwide Venues for New Works by Lisa
Mulcahy, Allworth Press, p.114.
2005 Ugly Ducklings article by Aimsel Ponti, Curve Magazine, San Francisco.
2005 Interview by Charlotte Renner, Maine Public Broadcasting, Portland, ME.
2005 Interview, by Conrad Bishop for Hitchhiking off the Map, Public Radio Series,
produced by The Independent Eye for KPFA-FM, San Francisco (aired June 3).
2005 Interview and The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, by Frieda Werden for Womens
International News Gathering Service, Canada.
2005 Interviewed by Madeleine Winterfalcon for Queertalk, Dec. 8, WMPG, Portland,
ME.
2005 The Smart Teacher cited in Friends are Everything, by B.J. Gallagher, Conari

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Press.
2004 A Friendship Forged on Theatres Cutting Edge, interview by Bob Keyes, The
Portland Press-Herald, Sunday, Sept. 19, Portland, ME.
2004 Workshops cited in Gender in Applied Communication Contexts by Patrice
Buzzanell, Helen M. Stark, Lynn H Turner, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks,
CA.
2004 Five Women Outsiders From History Tell Their Tale, review of Wild Women
Dont Get the Blues by April Boyle, Sunday, Sept. 10, Portland, ME.
2004 Feminist Wile, review of Wild Women Dont Get the Blues by Megan Grumbling,
Portland Phoenix, Sept. 24, Portland, ME.
2004 Cookin with Typhoid Mary, excerpted on WMPG, Portland, ME.
2004 Radically Redefining Beauty, (review of Ugly Ducklings), by Kim Krisberg, The
Washington Blade, May 7, Washington, DC.
2004 Ugly Ducklings, (review) by Bidisha Banerjee, Washington City Paper,
Washington, DC.
2004 Best Bets, (review of Ugly Ducklings) by Peter Fay, WAMU (NPR affiliate
station), Washington, DC.
2004 Review of Ugly Ducklings, Metro Weekly, April 22, Washington, DC.
2004 Writing a Wrong for Gay Teens, (interview) by Bryan Anderton, Washington
Blade, February 20, Washington, DC.
2004 Angie excerpted in Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart: Prostitution Harms
Women Even if Legalized or Decriminalized, by Melissa Farley in Violence
Against Women Journal, Oct., 10:1087-1125.
www.prostitutionresearch.com/FarleyVAW.pdf
2004 Ugly Ducklings (review), by Amy Winter, off our backs, Jan-Feb, Washington,
DC.
2004 Sisterhood on Trial, (review of The Anastasia Trials), by Mary Damiano,
Express Gay News, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
2004 Verdict: An Unexpected Delight, (review of The Anastasia Trials), by Christine
Dolan, The Miami Herald, Feb. 4, Miami, FL.
2004 Anastasia Trials Filled with Theatrical Twists, by Bill Hirschman, Sun-Sentinel,
Feb. 4, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
2004 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc cited in Queering the Conflicts: What
LGBT Students Can Teach Us in the Classroom and Online, by Brad Peters and
Diana Swanson in Computers and Composition, Vol. 21, Issue 3, September, pp.
295-313.
2004 Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist cited in Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis by
Paula J. Caplan and Lisa Cosgrove, pp. 23,24,32, Jason Aronson, NY.
2003 Hidden Disability: A Coming Out Story cited in My Body, My Closet: Invisible
Disability and the Limits of Coming-Out Discourse by Ellen Jean Samuels, GLQ:
A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 9, Number 1-2, 2003.

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2003 Piano Review cited in The Representation of the Indigenous Other in
Daughters of the Dust and The Piano by C. Brown, National Womens Studies
Association Journal.
2003 Cited in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance by Dennis
Kennedy, Oxford University Press, p. 733.
2003 Cited in Joan of Arc, a Saint for All Reasons: Studies in Myth and Politics by
Dominique Goy-Blanquet , Ashgate Publishing, p. 139.
2003 A Star Thenand Now, (review of Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman), by
Samela Harris, The Advertiser, Nov. 1, Adelaide, Australia.
2003 Phillips Brutally Honest Solo Role, (review of Last Reading of Charlotte
Cushman), by Matt Bryne, The Sunday Mail, Adelaide, Australia.
2003 Like Theres No Tomorrow, reviewed by Carol Anne Douglass, off our backs,
vol.xxxiv, Washington, DC.
2003 Interviewed by Alicia Anstead, Bangor Daily News, October 24, Bangor, ME.
2003 Interviewed, Feminism Live, KBOO radio, Portland, OR.
2003 Women Holding the Cards, by Dan Via (review of The Anastasia Trials) The
Washington Post, May 30, page WE45.
2003 Playwright Attempts to Reclaim Lesbian Lives Through Art, by Jaime McLeod,
Pittsburghs Out, Issue 312, Pittsburgh, PA.
2003 Woman has Second Coming with play about Joan of Arc, by Jeff Korbelik,
Lincoln Journal Star, March 7, 2003, Lincoln, NE.
2003 Finding Direction, by Bob Keyes, Maine Sunday Telegram, February 16, 2003,
Portland, ME.
2003 Separatism and Reverse Discrimination from Like Theres No Tomorrow,
excerpted in contributions by Tamarah Cohen in Sexuality: The Essential
Glossary, ed.by Jo Eadie, Arnold Press, London.
2002 The Case for Marlowe as the Bard cited in Years Work in English
Studies/Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory: Covering Work
Produced in 1999, Oxford University Press.
2002 Interviewed by Fionola Meredith, Womens News, Issue 138, Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
2002 Interviewed on local radio, September 11, Tralee, Republic of Ireland.
2002 Theatre Magic: The Trials and Tribulations of Womens Theatre, by Jade
Angelica, (cover story) Portland Phoenix, Vol. 7, No. 4., Portland, ME.
2002 Interviewed by Pat Cramer, off our backs: the feminist newsjournal, vol.xxxii,
no.1&2, Jan-Feb. Washington, DC.
2001 Cited in For Fear of the Fire: Joan of Arc and the Limits of Subjectivity by
Francoise Meltzer, University Of Chicago Press, p.20.
2001 Cited in Sexual Shakespeare: Forgery, Authorship, Portraiture by Michael
Keevak, Wayne State University Press.

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2001 Cited in The Louisa May Alcott Encyclopedia by Gregory Eiselein and Anne K.
Phillips, Greenwood Press, page 12
2001 Cited in Women and Self-Inflicted Violence, by Elliott bat Tzedek in Rain and
Thunder, Issue 12, Oakland, CA.
2001 Interviewed by Autumn Phillips, Casco Bay Weekly, Portland, ME.
2001 Pressure to Heal excerpted in A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbot, Da
Capo Press, 2001, p 392, 414.
2001 Interviewed by Rick Reed, Windy City Times, Chicago, IL.
2001 Carolyn Gages Letter to the World, by Erin Blackwell, Girlfriends Magazine,
July, San Francisco.
2001 Interviewed for Lesbian Artists, video by Jenna Orkin, Brooklyn, NY.
2001Interviewed by Robert Redick in On Playwriting, The Portland Phoenix, April 13-
19, Portland, ME.
2001 Interviewed by Michelle Raiyn, WSHU, Conn. Public Radio, April 19, 2001,
Fairfield.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc excerpted, Lesbian Radio/ Wahine
takataapui reo irirangi Plains FM 96.9, Christchurch, New Zealand, February 17,
2001.
2000 Cited in Lesbian Couples: A Guide to Creating Healthy Relationships by D.
Merilee, Ph.D. Clunis and G. Dorsey, Ph.D. Green, Seal Press, p.7.
2000 Cited in Higher Ground: From Utopianism to Realism in American Feminist
Thought and Theory (Women in Culture and Society Series) by Sally L. Kitch,
University Of Chicago Press, p. 9.
2000 Cited in Scapegoat by Andrea Dworkin , Free Press, p. 54.
2000 Hidden Disability cited in Beyond Inclusion, by Rachel Rosenbloom in
Womens Review of Books, March 2000, Vol. 17, Issue 6, p.12.
2000 Cited in Response by Patricia Cramer in Virginia Woolf: Turning the
Centuries, ed. by Ann Ardis and Bonnie Kime Scott, Pace University Press, NY,
p. 117.
2000 Interviewed by Katherine Harris, Anger like a Piano, The Washington Blade,
June 28, Washington, DC.
2000 Interviewed by Judith Strasser of To the Best of Our Knowledge, National Public
Radio, July 18, 2000, Making Saints, Madison, WI.
2000 Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors reviewed by Lynn Miller, Lesbian
Review of Books, Summer, Hilo, HI.
2000 Becca and the Woman Prince cited in Lesbian and Gay Voices: An
Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young
Adults, by Frances Ann Day, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.
2000 Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors reviewed by Rene McBride for
Broadside, newsletter of Theatre Library Association, June.

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2000 Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors reviewed by Therese Szymanski
in Lambda Book Report, Spring, Washington, DC.
2000 The Parmachene Belle excerpted in Even More Monologues for Women, by
Women, Tori Haring-Smith, ed., Heinemann Books, Inc., Portsmouth, NH.
2000 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Other Plays, Like Theres No
Tomorrow, Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian Actors, Take Stage!, cited
in Lesbians in Print: A Bibliography, Margaret Gillon, ed., Odd Girls Press,
Anaheim, CA.
2000 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, cited in Whats in a Name? and Sticks
and Stones, dir. by Jean Padgett, National Film Board of Canada.
2000 Interviewed for Hanging Loose, GAYBC radio network, Seattle.
2000 Interview with Mary Glenny, WMNF, Tampa, FL.
2000 When Sex is Not a Metaphor for Intimacy, (lecture) WYOU, public access TV,
March 22, Madison, WI.
1999 Theatre company and plays cited and photograph included in The Encyclopedia
of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, ed. Bonnie Zimmerman and George
Haggerty, Garland Publishing, Inc., Levittown, PA
1999 Cited in Jane Campion's The Piano (Cambridge Film Handbooks) by Harriet
Margolis and Horton Andrew, Cambridge University Press, p. 43.
1999 Interviewed by Connie Pacillo in For Play, Casco Bay Weekly, Vol. XI, No. 43,
Portland, ME.
1999 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc cited in Eden Built by Eves: The Culture
of the Womens Music Festivals, Bonnie Morris, Alyson Press, Seattle, WA.
1999 Tara and Other Lies, on Book Talk, KPFA, Berkeley, CA.
1999 Interviewed by Madeleine LeCoq in Weird Sisters, Ft. Collins, CO.
1999 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc (excerpts), Stones Throw, KPFA,
Berkeley, CA.
1999 Excerpts Like Theres No Tomorrow, Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist
Journal of Discussion and Activism, Issue 2, Spring, Northampton, MA.
1999 Interview with Jesse Haiwa, May 14, 1999, Out Radio, WBAI, New York City.
1998 Interview with Debra DAllesandro, Amazon Country, (nationally syndicated
show), July 18, 1998, Philadelphia, PA.
1998 Cited in Embracing Victory: Life Lessons in Competition and Compassion by
Mariah Burton-Nelson, pp 15-16, William Morrow and Company, NYC.
1998 Like Theres No Tomorrow, (excerpts), Stones Throw, KPFA, Berkeley, CA.
1998 Interviewed in Has Lesbian Theatre Come of Age? Lambda Book Review,
Vol. 7, No. 5., Washington, DC.
1998 Lesbians Front and Center, (review of Take Stage!) by Lynn C. Miller, Lesbian
Review of Books, Vol. IV, No. 4, Hilo, HI.
1998 Pressure to Heal excerpted in When the Earth Moves: Women and Orgasm,
Mikaya Heart, Ten Speed Press, San Francisco.

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1997 Piano Review cited in Sweet Surrender and Trespassing Desires in Reading:
Jane Campions The Piano and the Struggle for Responsible Pedagogy, by
Deanne Bogdan, Hilary Davis, Judith Robertson in Changing English, Vol. 4,
Issue 1, March.

FILMS

2008 Bite My Thumb, optioned by Cottonlover Films, Indianapolis, IN.
2006 Ugly Ducklings: The Documentary, directed by Fawn Yacker, produced by
Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Waterville, ME. (documentary about production of
Ugly Ducklings.)

PUBLIC AND PROFESSIONAL LECTURES AND APPEARANCES

2014 Playwriting and Social Justice, seminar at Stonecoast MFA Program, University
of Southern Maine.
2014 To Rome With Love: A Musical Fundraiser, performed excerpts of plays,
Footlights, Falmouth, ME.
2014 Improvised Puppet Project, On the Other Hand, (5-minute script), Portland
Stage Company, Portland, ME.
2014 Reading, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc at International Conference,
Performing Gender and Violence in Contemporary National and Transnational
Contexts, Universit degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome.
2104 The Lesbian Tent Revival and Crossing the Rapelands, Michigan Womyns
Music Festival, Hart, MI.
2014 Interrupting Racism, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg. (pending.)
2014 The Lesbian Tent Revival and The Secret Life of Lesbians, National
Gathering Old Lesbians Organizing for Change, Oakland, CA.
2014 Interrupting Racism: An Interractive Workshop, Justice in the Body, Portland,
ME.
2013 Evening of Readings and Interrupting Racism Workshop, Center for Poetry,
Michigan State University, East Lansing.
2013 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter and excerpts from The
Parmachene Belle, Women in the Arts Festival, East Lansing.
2013 Guest speaker, Bates College, First Plays class, Lewiston, ME.
2013 Interrupting Racism: An Interactive Workshop, Lesbian Tent Revival, Old
Lesbians Organizing for Change Regional Gathering, St. Louis, MO.
2013 Interrupting Racism: An Interactive Workshop, Rainbow Lifelong Learning
Institute of Boston, Arlington, MA.
2013 Host, Lesbian Radio (monthly host), WMPG, Portland, ME.
2013 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Hart, MI

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2013 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her
Daughter, The Parmachene Belle, The Secret Life of Lesbians (lecture),
Beyond the L-Word (workshop), Playwriting Workshop (workshop). The
Goddess Tour (reading) in residency at Superstition Mountain Resort, Apache
Junction, AZ.
2012 The Lesbian Tent Revival and Interrupting Racism workshop, National OLOC
Conference, Woburn, MA.
2012 The Other L-Words and interviewed by Mary Malia for Living Your Best
Lesbian Life National Telesummit.
2012 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Hart, MI.
2012 For Rachel Crites (poem), Weaving Conversations in the Sky: Women Poets,
St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland, ME.
2012 A Theatrical Journey Through Maines Lesbian History, York Diversity Forum,
York, ME.
2011 Excerpt from The Parmachene Belle, A Tasting of Theater, Lucid Stage,
Portland, ME.
2011 The Butch Visibility Project, Pecha Kucha, Portland, ME.
2011 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC.
2011 Lace Curtain Irish, (reading) Maine Assoc. of Community Theatres One-Act
Festival, Auburn, ME.
2011 Speak Fully the One Awful Word,(reading) Bowdoin College (Harriet Beecher
Stowe Conference), Brunswick, ME.
2011 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Key City Public Theatre, Port Townsend,
WA and Arcata, CA.
2011 Beyond The L-Word Workshop, and Ugly Ducklings Workshop, Womens
Theatre Project, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
2011 Online Publishing Demonstration and Workshop, Business of Writing
Conference, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Portland, ME.
2011 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Intensive Workshop, Michigan Womyns Music
Festival, Hart, MI.
2011 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and The Lesbian Tent Revival, the
Vancouver Lesbian-Feminist Dinner Party, Vancouver, BC.
2011 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Roseburg, OR; and Burlington, VT.
2011 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Victoria Senior Care, Victoria BC.
2011 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Rain and Thunder Collective, Northampton.
2011 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Sapphos Salon, Chicago, and LGBT Centers in
Racine and Milwaukee, WI.
2010 As a woman I have no country, presenter at Patriotica: An Evening of
Patriotic Art, Mayo Arts, Portland, ME.
2010 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, Lucid Stage, Portland, ME.
2010 Brett Remembers, (reading), Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM.

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2010 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, Lecture and readings,
Univ. of Connecticut, Stamford.
2010 Panelist, Are Lesbians Going Extinct? for Lesbians in the 70s Conference,
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, CUNY, NYC. (pending)
2010 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Womens Week, Provincetown, MA.
2010 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her
Daughter, and a monologue workshop, Provincetown International Womens
Theatre Festival, Provincetown, MA.
2010 Interviewed on Alternative Perspectives, WRFG, Atlanta, GA, March 16.
2010 Presentation, MUSE, Portland, ME.
2010 Co-hosting Mary Daly Memorial Broadcasts on WMPG Lesbian Radio,
Portland, ME.
2010 Excerpts of The Parmachene Belle performed at Society of the Muse of the
Southwest (SOMOS), Taos, NM.
2009 Featured author, Books & Blooms Book Fair, Maine Writers and Publishers
Alliance, Boothbay Harbor, ME.
2009 A Theatrical Journey Through Maines Lesbian History, University of New
England, Biddeford, ME.
2009 The Parmachene Belle, Calamity Jane Sends A Message to Her Daughter,
and readings, Lord Leebrick Theatre, Eugene, OR.
2009 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Deer Creek House, Roseburg, OR.
2009 The Lesbian Tent Revival (excerpt), The Third Annual Lesbian All-Star Revue,
St. Lawrence Arts Center, Portland, ME.
2009 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Women in the Arts, Lansing, MI.
2009 Self-Publishing Workshop, Resort on Carefree Boulevard, N. Fort Myers, FL.
2009 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Michfest Fundraiser, Nattick, MA.
2009 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, and Lesbian Theatre Workshop at
Honors College (annual lecture series) University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg.
2009 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, and The Inconvenient Truth about Teena
Brandon, keynote at Gender Conference at Pacific University, Forest Grove,
OR.
2009 The Parmachene Belle in Greetings from Lesbos, Maine, St. Lawrence Arts
Center, Portland, ME.
2009 Ugly Ducklings: Scenes and Documentary, (panelist), St. Lawrence Theatre,
Portland, ME.
2009 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, An Evening of Scenes and
Monologues by Carolyn Gage, University of Southern Maine, Gorham.
2009 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, University of Maine, Farmington.
2009 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Stetson University, DeLand, FL.
2009 The Parmachene Belle, UU Church of Saco and Biddeford, Saco, ME.

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2009 Monologue Workshop and The Parmachene Belle, Maine Assoc. of
Community Theatres Conference, Auburn.
2009 The Parmachene Belle and The Lesbian Tent Revival, We are 1, Durham, NC.
2009 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter and The Parmachene
Belle, Black Hills Equality Center Pride, Rapid City, SD.
2009 The Pros and Cons of Self-Publishing, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
Business of Writing Conference, Freeport.
2009 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Intensive Workshop (6 days), Michigan Womyns
Music Festival, Hart, MI.
2009 The Parmachene Belle, UU Church, Brewster, MA.
2008 What is Terror for Women? radio panel for On the Issues Magazine radioblog,
October 31.
2008 Lesbian Theatre, (lecture) Tisch School of Performing Arts, New York
University, NYC.
2008 An Evening of Dyke Drama with Carolyn Gage, North Star Caf, Portland, ME.
2008 Gage on Stage, TOSOS II, New York City and Venus Productions, Laurel, MD.
2008 Souvenirs from Eden, (reading), Lesbian History Tour, Mount Desert Island,
ME.
2008 The Lesbian Tent Revival, Intensive Workshop, Michigan Womyns Music
Festival, Hart, MI.
2008 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Superstition Mountain Resort, Apache
Junction, AZ.
2008 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, SWAN Day, Maine Women
Writers Collection and International Center for Women Playwrights, Portland,
ME.
2008 The Countess and the Lesbians, Maine Association of Community Theatres
Conference, Dover-Foxcroft, ME
2008 The Countess and the Lesbians, St. Lawrence Arts Center and Center for
Ethics in Action, Portland, ME.
2008 Entracte and The Obligatory Scene, reading by Stage Q, and Lesbian Tent
Revival, National Womens Music Festival, Madison, WI.
2008 The Parmachene Belle, You Are the Main Character workshop and reading of
The Goddess Tour, Resort on Carefree Boulevard, N. Ft. Myers, FL
2008 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, Portland Stage Company,
actors benefit, Portland, ME
2008 Workshop of Babe: An Olympian Musical, Arizona Womens Theatre Company,
Scottsdale, AZ.
2007 Lesbian Tent Revival, Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Hart MI.
2007 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, An Evening of Lesbian All-
Stars, sponsored by WMPG, Portland, ME.

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2007 You Gotta Love A Lesbian: An Evening with Two Lesbian Playwrights, Cork Arts
Theatre, Republic of Ireland.
2007 Lesbian History Grove, JulySeptember, Lesbian Radio, WMPG, Portland,
ME.
2007 Calamity Jane Sends A Message to Her Daughter, International Center for
Women Playwrights Festival, Dramatists Guild Offices, NYC.
2007Acting Lesbian: A Workshop, Theatre Unbound, Minneapolis.
2007 Acting Lesbian: A Workshop, Stage Q, Madison, WI.
2007 Ugly Ducklings, hosting reading, University of West Virginia, Morgantown.
2007 Libra Series Writers Residency, University of Maine, Machias.
2007 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Calamity Jane Sends A Message to
Her Daughter, Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, Ireland.
2007 Workshop, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, (Maine Writers and Publishers
Alliance), Deer Isle, Maine.
2007 Panel, Ugly Ducklings: The Documentary (screening), Rainbow Business and
Professional Association, Portland, ME.
2007 Presenter, Festival of the Book, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Portland,
ME.
2006 Panelist, Ugly Ducklings Campaign, Maine Youth Action Network Conference,
South Portland.
2006 Panelist, Ugly Ducklings Campaign, University of Maine, Farmington.
2006 Panelist, Ugly Ducklings Campaign, Belfast, Maine.
2006 Lesbian Readers Theatre, Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Hart, MI.
2006 Panel participant, screening of Ugly Ducklings:The Documentary, University of
New England, Portland, ME.
2006 Quand sexe ne veut pas dire intimate, 5e Colloque international dtudes
lesbiennes Bagdam Espace lesbian, Toulouse, France.
2006 Adapting Historical Figures for the Stage, (workshop) International Center for
Women Playwrights Annual Retreat, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
2006 The Parmachene Belle, reading of Ugly Ducklings, National Womens Music
Festival, University of Illinois, Normal, IL.
2006 Resisting the Dominant Paradigm, workshop, Stonecoast MFA Creative Writing
Program, Univ. of S. Maine ,Stone House, Brunswick.
2006 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, Maine Association of
Community Theatres Festival, Bath, Maine.
2006 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, St. Josephs College, Philadelphia.
2005 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Stonewall Center, Univ. of Massachusetts,
Amherst.
2005 Lesbian Stereotypes and Archetypes, (workshop) Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
ME.
2005 Lesbian Theatre Workshop, GSA Day, Brunswick High School, Brunswick, ME.

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2005 When Sex Is Not the Metaphor for Intimacy (workshop) and co-leader of Andrea
Dworkin Memorial, Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Hart, MI.
2005 Playwriting Workshop, Stonecoast Writing Program, Univ. of Southern Maine,
Portland.
2005 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, Dragon Farm Gathering,
Rockland, ME.
2005 Bringing Lesbian History to Life, and Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her
Daughter and playwriting panel, Saints and Sinners National Gay and Lesbian
Writers Conference, New Orleans.
2005 Writing the Historical Monologue, (workshop), University of Southern
Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
2005 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, A.P.E., Northampton, MA.
2005 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Gulfport Womyns Festival, Camp
Sisterspirit, Ovett, MI.
2005 Ugly Ducklings:: How I Came to Write a Play Where the Lesbian Doesnt Kill
Herself, (paper for a panel), New England Womens Studies Conference,
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.
2005Surviving the Dominant Culture: A Radical Workshop combined with Take Back
the Stage: A Performance and Workshop on Non-Traditional Roles for Women,
Colby College, Waterville, ME.
2005 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, University of Maine at Orono.
2005 Artist-in-Residence, The Resort on Carefree Boulevard, N. Ft. Meyers, FL.
2005 Changing the Channel on Violence Against Women, SUNY Rockland
Community College, Suffern, NY.
2004 Womens Theatre Retreat, Damas Gracias Center, Gilboa, NY.
2004 Directors Forum, St. Lawrence Performing Arts Center, Portland, ME
2004 Reading, The Spindle, (talk-back), Messenger Theatre,HERE Performance
Space, NYC.
2004 Reading, Thanatron, (talk-back), Pen and Brush Club, NYC.
2004 Paradigms and Performance, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL.
2004 Cookin With Typhoid Mary, (talk-back) Maine Women Writers Collections
Women, Health, and Representation Conference, University of New England,
Westbrook, ME.
2004 Monologues and Scenes, Venus Theatre, Washington, DC.
2004 Monologue and Scene Performance Intensive, Michigan Womens Music
Festival, Hart, MI.
2003 Reception for playwright, sponsored by Venus Theatre, Warehouse Theatre Caf,
Washington, DC.
2003 Lecture on Thanatron, University of Connecticut at Stamford.
2003 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, GLBT Community Center/ Chatham
College, Pittsburgh.

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2003 Lizzie Borden and Bridget Sullivan: Hidden in Plain View (paper) Humanities
and Law Conference, University of New England, Portland.
2003 Lesbian Feminism: Paradigms and Paradigm-Shifting, (lecture) and reading of
Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist, University of Connecticut, Stamford.
2003 Ugly Ducklings, reading, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Bangor, ME.
2003 Monologues and Scenes, In Other Words Bookstore, Portland, OR.
2003 Monologues and Scenes, Mother Kalis Books, Eugene, OR.
2003 Monologues, Kingsley Center for Girls, Arcadia, FL.
2003 Lesbians and Theatre: The Case of the Missing Paradigm, Bates College,
Lewiston, ME.
2003 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, lesbian scene workshop, Resort on
Carefree Boulevard, N. Ft. Meyers, FL.
2003 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Lizzie Borden and Lesbian Theatre: Axes
to Grind, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE.
2003 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.
2002 The Rules of the Playground, (reading), Maine Womens Studies Consortium
Conference, Portland, ME.
2002 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Queens University, Belfast, Northern
Ireland.
2002 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, L. Inc. (lesbian organization), Cork,
Ireland.
2002 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, St. Johns Cultural Center, Limerick,
Republic of Ireland.
2002 Louisa May Incest, Actors Conservatory Theatre, Portland, ME.
2002 Louisa May Incest, Maine Association of Community Theatres Festival,
Rockland, ME.
2002 Case of the Missing Archetype, University of Southern Maine Osher Lifelong
Learning Institute, Portland.
2002 Lecture on The Vagina Monologues, University of Maine at Augusta, Augusta,
ME.
2002 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
2002 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Hollins University, Lynchburg, VA..
2002 Louisa May Incest, Battered on Broadway (reading), When Sex Is Not the
Metaphor for Intimacy, (lecture) National Womens Music Festival, Muncie, IN.
2001 Monologues, Alix Dobkin/Trish Williams Concert, Worchester, MA.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Case of the Missing Lesbian Archetype
University of Connecticut, Storrs.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, St. Cloud College, MN.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, University of New England, Portland, ME.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, National Womens Studies Association,
Minneapolis.

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2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Bailiwick Theatre, Chicago.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Womens Week, Provincetown, MA.
2001 Lizzie Borden and Lesbian Theatre: Axes to Grind, State University of New York
at Geneseo, Geneseo, NY.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Sappho in Love, (staged reading)
Moondance International Womens Film Festival, Boulder, CO.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Thanatron (reading) National Womens
Music Festival, Muncie, IN.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Non-Traditional Roles for Women,
Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA.
2001 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, and Lizzie Borden and Lesbian Theatre:
Axes to Grind, University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT.
2001 When Sex Is Not the Metaphor for Intimacy, Bloodroot, Bridgeport, CT.
2000 Writing Lesbian History: Outing the Dead or Owning Our Own? Womens
Private Writing/Writing Womens History Conference, Univ. of New England,
Portland, ME.
2000 Sacred Theatre: Rehearsing the Vision, (workshop), Feminist Spiritual
Community Twentieth Anniversary Retreat, Naples, ME.
2000 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, and Transgender Panel, LGBT Pre-
Conference, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Capitol Hill
Performing Arts Center, Washington, DC.
2000 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, DC Arts Center, Washington, DC.
2000 Authors reception and book-signing, Backstage Books, Washington, DC.
2000 Evening of Scenes and Monologues, Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick, ME.
2000 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Resort on Carefree Boulevard, Ft.Myers,
FL.
2000 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Womyns Energy Bank, St. Petersburg,
FL.
2000 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Unitarian Universalist Church, Madison,
WI
2000 When Sex is Not a Metaphor for Intimacy, Annual Wartmann Gay/Lesbian
Lecture Series, Unitarian Universalist Church, Madison, WI.
2000 Evening of Scenes and Monologues, Room of Her Own, Madison, WI.
2000 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, State Univ. of New York, Cortland, NY.
1999 Artemisia and Hildegard (staged reading), Maine Womens Studies Conference,
Augusta, ME
1999 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Dykes on Stage: Curtains for Patriarchy,
Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg, PA.
1999 Non-Traditional Roles for Women, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA.
1999 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Colorado College, Colo. Springs, CO.

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1999 Evening of Scenes and Monologues, Bluestocking Books, NYC.
1999 Evening of Scenes and Monologues, A Different Light Bookstores, NYC.
1999 Artemisia and Hildegard, An Evening of Monologues and Scenes for Lesbian
Actors, Lesbian Theatre Workshop, Natl. Womens Music Festival, Muncie, IN.
1999 Artemisia and Hildegard, Thanatron (reading), Campfest, Oxford, PA.
1999 The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, Cedar Crest College, Allentown,
PA
1999 Dykes on Stage: Curtains for Patriarchy, Alliance for Sexual Diversity,
University of Southern Maine, Portland.
1999 Muzzling the Muse (panelist), Outwrite National Gay and Lesbian Writers
Conference, Boston.
1999 Perpetrating Performance: Trauma on the Stage, (panel), Association for
Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Toronto.
1999 Pedagogically Queer, (panel), Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Conference, Toronto.
1998 Tara and Other Lies, Maine Womens Studies Conference, Farmington, ME.
1998 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, The Matilda Joslyn Gage Centennial
Conference, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI.
1998 Lizzie Borden and Lesbian Theatre: Axes to Grind, Washington College,
Chesterton, MD.
1998 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Campfest, Oxford, PA.

THEATRE/ FILM/ POETRY COMPETITIONS

2013 Winner, Wesleyan Press Poetry Competition, 13 Songs Inspired by Sappho.
2013 Radicals, Maine Playwrights Festival, Acorn Productions, Portland, ME.
2012 The Spindle, National Finalist, Womens Work Festival, Pride Films and Plays
Competition, Chicago.
2011 The Ladies Room, National Finalist, Heidemann Award, National 10-Minute
Contest, Actors Theatre of Louisville.
2011 Stigmata, Winner, Maine Literary Award, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
2009 Babe: An Olympian Musical, named as ne of the ten most noteworthy lesbian
plays in the US, Curve Magazine, San Francisco.
2009 The Goddess Tour, Maine Playwrights Festival, Acorn Productions, ME.
2007 The Poorly-Written Play Festival, Maine Literary Award in Drama, Maine
Writers and Publishers Alliance.
2006 Ugly Ducklings: The Documentary, dir. by Fawn Yacker, Frameline Intl. Film
Festival, San Francisco.
2006 The Poorly-Written Play Festival, Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play
Festival.

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2005 Entracte, Third-place Winner, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation One-Act
Competition, Hollywood, CA.
2005 The Pele Chant, national semi-finalist for the Eileen Heckart Senior Drama
Competition, Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio
State University, Columbus.
2004 Ugly Ducklings, nominated for American Theatre Critics/Steinberg Award. (Best
new play of the year produced outside New York)
2004 Ugly Ducklings, National Lesbian Theatre Award, Curve Magazine, Los
Angeles.
2004 The Poorly-Written Play Festival, National Finalist, George P. Kernodle One-
Act Play Competition, University of Arkansas.
2004 The Spindle, National Finalist, John Gassner New Play Festival, Stony Brook
Univ., NY.
2004 The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, National Finalist, Jane Chambers
Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
2003 Thanatron, Best Productions of 2003, Portland Phoenix, Portland, ME.
2003 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, Winner, Boston Theatre
Slam, Another Country Productions, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Boston.
2003 No Dobermans Allowed: A Separatist Manifesto, National Semi-finalist
Manifesto Competition, The Playwrights Center, Minneapolis.
2003 The Spindle, Semi-Finalist Mill Mountain New Play Competition, Roanoke, VA
2002 The Pele Chant, national semi-finalist, Association for Theatre in Higher
Education One-Act Play Competition, San Diego, CA.
2001 The Parmachene Belle, Finalist, Maine Playwrights Festival, Portland, ME.
2001 Sappho in Love, Winner Best Stageplay, Moondance International Womens
Film Festival, Boulder, CO.
1998 Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist, National Winner, Off-Off Broadway Original
Short Play Festival, produced by Samuel French, NYC.

EXPERIENCE: TEACHING

2014 Seminar instructor, Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing, Univ. of Southern Maine.
2004 Instructor, Playwriting and Lesbian Poetry, Univ. of Southern Maine Continuing
Eduction Program, Portland, ME.
1999-2014 Touring lecturer, workshop presenter, resident theatre artist to colleges and
universities. (See Public Lectures and Appearances)
1998-9 Visiting Professor, Directing, Organizing Community-Based Theatre, Bates
College, Lewiston, ME.
1999 Adjunct Professor, Interactive Survey of Theatre, Univ. of Southern Maine,
Gorham.

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1998 Adjunct Professor, Intro to Theatre Arts, Play Analysis, and Intro to Womens
Studies, University of Southern Maine.

EXPERIENCE: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/ FOUNDER

2001-2014 Founder and Director, Cauldron & Labrys Productions, Portland, ME.
1992-93 Director and Resident Playwright, League of Lesbian Actors, Santa Rosa, CA.
1989-91 Founder and Artistic Director, NTM Productions, Ashland, OR.
1986 Founder and Artistic Director, Barclay Theatre, Oregon City, OR.
1985 Founder and Artistic Director, Maude Kerns Art Theatre, Eugene, OR.

EXPERIENCE: RECENT DIRECTING

2014 To Rome With Love, Footlights in Falmouth, ME.
2014 SCUM: An Afternoon with Valerie Solanas, PortFringe, Portland, ME.
(pending)
2013 Crossing the Rapelands, PortFringe, Portland, ME.
2012 The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived, MeACT Festival, Lucid Stage,
Portland, ME.
2011 Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist, (staged reading) Lucid Stage, Portland, ME.
2011 The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived, Lucid Stage fundraiser, Portland, ME.
2011 Speak Fully The One Awful Word (staged reading), Harriet Beecher Stowe
Conference, Brunswick, ME.
2010 Brett Remembers (staged reading), Wurlitzer Foundation, Taos, NM.
2009 The Ladies Room (reading), Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Hart, MI.
2008 Babe: An Olympian Musical (concert/reading), Arizona Womens Theatre
Company in Scottsdale, and Theatre Unbound, Minnneapolis.
2008 The Countess and the Lesbians, Center for Ethics in Action and St. Lawrence
Arts Center, Portland, ME.
2007 The Rules of the Playground, Center for Ethics in Action, Evening of Womens
Anti-War Plays, Portland.
2006 Entracte, The Obligatory Scene, and Bite My Thumb (reading), Cauldron &
Labrys Production at Space Gallery, Portland, ME.
2006, 2010 The Parmachene Belle, Cauldron & Labrys, Portland, ME.
2005 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, Cauldron & Labrys,
Portland, ME.
2004 Artemisia and Hildegard (co-director), Cauldron & Labrys, Portland, ME.
2003 Thanatron, Cauldron & Labrys Productions, Portland, ME.
2002 Cowboy Morning by Ksenija Dragunskaya, From Away Festival, Portland Stage
Company, Portland, ME.

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2002 The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women, Cauldron & Labrys Productions,
Portland, ME.
2002 Louisa May Incest, Cauldron & Labrys Productions, Portland, ME.
1999 Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist (staged reading), Bates College, Lewiston,
ME.
1999 Artemisia and Hildegard, National Womens Music Festival, Muncie, IN.

EXPERIENCE: RECENT PERFORMANCE

2014 Excerpts from The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman, The Second Coming
of Joan of Arc, and Babe for To Rome With Love, The Footlights, Falmouth,
ME.
2013 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter, excerpts The Parmachene
Belle, Michigan State University Center for Poetry and Women in the Arts
Festival, E.Lansing, MI.
2013 The Parmachene Belle and Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her
Daughter, Apache Junction, AZ.
2013 Crossing the Rapelands, PortFringe, Portland, ME.
2011 Lace Curtain Irish, (reading) Maine Association for Community Theatres
One-Act Festival, Auburn.
2009 The Parmachene Belle (UU Church, Biddeford, ME; Maine Assoc. of Community
Theatres Conference, Auburn; We Are One, Durham, NC; Black Hills Pride, SD;
UU Church, Brewster, MA; Lord Leebrick Theatre, Eugene, OR.)
2008-2010 Gage on Stage, TOSOS II, NYC and Venus Productions, Laurel, MD; Univ.
of CT, Stamford.
2008 The Parmachene Belle, Resort on Carefree Boulevard, Ft. Myers, FL.
2008 An Evening of Dyke Drama with Carolyn Gage, North Star Caf, Portland, ME.
2007 Guest Artist, The Second Coming of Joan of Arc and Calamity Jane Sends a
Message to Her Daughter, Dublin International Gay Theatre Festival, Ireland.
2006 The Parmachene Belle, National Womens Music Festival, Indiana.
2005-10 Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter (Ft. Myers, FL, New
Orleans, Hattiesburg, MI, Rockland and Portland, ME, New York City, Rapid City,
SD; Eugene, OR; Portland, ME)
1989-2011 The Second Coming of Joan of Arc (Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, San
Francisco, Chicago, Indianapolis, Santa Rosa, Mendocino, Minneapolis,
Madison, Kalamazoo, Colorado Springs, Northern Ireland, etc.)
2002 Louisa May Incest, Portland and Rockland, ME. and Indianapolis.
1999 Artemisia and Hildegard, Oxford, PA and Muncie, IN.

PLAYS: ONE-ACTS


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Aint Got No
The A-Mazing Yamashita and the Goldiggers
Artemisia and Hildegard
Battered on Broadway
Bite My Thumb
Black Eye
The Boundary Trial of John Proctor
Calamity Jane Sends A Message to Her Daughter
Cookin With Typhoid Mary
The Countess and the Lesbians
The Drum Lesson
Entracte
The Evil That Men Do: The Story of Thalidomide
The Gage and Mr. Comstock
The Great Fire
The Greatest Actress Who Ever Lived
Harriet Tubman Visits A Therapist
Hermeneutic Circlejerk
Heterosexuals Anonymous
Jane Addams and the Devil Baby
A Labor Play
Lace Curtain Irish
The Ladies Room
Little Sister
Louisa May Incest
Mason-Dixon
The Obligatory Scene
The P.E. Teacher
The Parmachene Belle
Patricide: A Play in One Minute
The Pele Chant
The Play-reading Committee
The Poorly-Written Play Festival
Radicals
The Rules of the Playground
SCUM: An Afternoon with Valerie Solanas
Souvenirs from Eden
Stage Left
Til the Fat Lady Sings

PLAYS: FULL-LENGTH

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The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women
Coming About
Esther and Vashti
The Goddess Tour
Sappho in Love
The Spindle
Stigmata
Thanatron
Ugly Ducklings

PLAYS: ONE-WOMAN SHOWS

Crossing the Rapelands
The Last Reading of Charlotte Cushman
The Second Coming of Joan of Arc

PLAYS: MUSICALS

The Amazon All-Stars
Babe
How to Write a Country-Western Song
Leading Ladies
Women on the Land

PLAYS: ADAPTATIONS

Amy Lowell: In Her Own Words
La Btarde: The Life of Violette Leduc
Brett Remembers
Deep Haven
Emily & Sue: A Love Story in 5 Scenes and 4 Seizures
I Came To Show You Death: Scenes on Lesbians and Dying by 19
th
-Century, New
England, Women Writers
The Opoponax (adaptation of three novels of Monique Wittig for performance)
Rachel and Dorothy
Speak Fully the One Awful Word (adaptation of Lady Byrons Vindication)
Vita and Violet
We Too Are Drifting (screenplay)

NOVELLAS AND PAMPHLETS

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13 Propositions for Rewiring the Lesbian Brain
Birth of a Lesbian: A Science Fiction Autobiography
The Gaia Papers: In Search of a Science of Gaia

UNPUBLISHED BOOKS AND NOVELLAS

The Godmothers
Kayties Guardian
Terms of the Will
Thumbing: A Memoir

LANGUAGES

Frenchreading knowledge.

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

The Dramatists Guild
Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance
Maine Association of Community Theaters (2012 Secretary)
2000-2008 International Center for Women Playwrights
(2007-8, Chair, Diversity Task Force and Diversity Liaison)

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born 14 March 1952, Richmond, Virginia

REFERENCES

Kate Greene
Prof. of Political Science
University of Southern Misssissippi
Hattiesburg, MI
kate.greene@usm.edu

Rebecca Nesvet
Field Chair, Creative Writing
School of Humanities
University of Gloucestershire
Park Campus, The Park, Cheltenham

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Work phone: +44 (0)1242 523433
Work e-mail: rnesvet@glos.ac.uk
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