2004- Author, Songwriter/ Multi-media artist -- "Never Better ". A Documentary examining unending illness, insufferable pain and the laughter needed to endure it. Using interviews, multi-media, monologues and music, it uniquely chronicles a rarely told story of sickness that never ends . It may be hard to comprehend, but terminal illness might not seem quite as bad when one considers a rarely researched realm: that of the "Interminable Illness". 'Never Better' is the theme song. 2004 - Artistic Coordinator - "Fashion of the Music"- Anchor Arts Starter Grant Award; Three month Workshop for teens to twenty-somethings encouraging dreams and self-esteem; Culminating in a final production exploring the effect of music on fashion and vice versa. June, 2004 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Center. Newport, RI. 2004 - Production Consultant - Teargas - a Musical by Greg Nissen about the effect of Big Corporations on the average citizen. Two Acts with music and visuals. @ the Brecht Forum, NYC. 2004 April. 2003 - Playwright/Director - FOREIGN WHEELS - One Act with Visuals and Music ~ A Look at Life In A Chair. Produced by The Girl Scouts of America, {Northeast Corridor} in association with Anchor Arts. Disability Awareness Symposium. November 2003. 2003 - Artist -In-Residence/ Playwright/ Songwriter - A Four Letter Word - A One Act Play with Film, Visuals, Song; About the coexistence of FEAR to HOPE. Covering the Station Night Club Fire in Warwick, RI in which 100 people perished & the War in Iraq in which hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iraqis have perished. CVS Highlander Charter School. Performed @ CCRI Media Center, Providence, RI. June. Playwright/Composer/Lyricist from BEYOND WORDS The Musical:
- a Play, a Radio Drama, a Book & a Documentary will follow people's (younger to older) bouts with their approaches to grieving and their approaches to going on. All in order to further learn how to cry, how to grieve and how to heal along with them. Playwright/Author - Radio Drama, Children's Book -"Sky Monsters -The Terribles" - About the disappearing Twin Towers; Offering comfort through imagery, words & wonder. Radio Drama due February, 2006. 2001- Artist-in-Residency/Playwright/Songwriter/Director: A Drop of Truth In A Brand New Century. Examination of the truth about fear…of guns, gangs and safety in schools as expressed through word, song, artwork, hip-hop, dance and rap. In conjunction with Peter Sheehan. Providence, RI. TBA - Artist-In-Residency/Rhode Island State Council of the Arts. 2000 - 2001 ~ THE SHUT-INS PROJECT ~ In celebration of the New Year and the new century, ANCHOR ARTS distributed THRESHOLD - THE RADIO DRAMA at no charge to hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, and any other shut-in who requested it. Like last year, ~THE SHUT-INS PROJECT ~ was particularly focused in Rhode Island but also included locations in New England and New York. Non Profit Production. ANCHOR ARTS. New England ~ New York performances/distribution. December - February REPRESENTATIVE PAST PROJECTS: 2000 - Artist-in-Residence/Playwright/Instructor - "Picturing Words & Wording Pictures." This deals with such issues as race, drugs, disabilities, divorce, difference, school shootings, teen pregnancy, ecology or current events. 2000 - Artist in Residence, A Drop of Truth, based on a story by Peter Sheehan. The journey of a raindrop from sky to ocean. Norman Bird Sanctuary. Sponsored by R.I.S.C.A/Island Arts. April. 1999 - Playwright/Director/Composer/Lyricist, from Beyond Words : The Musical ~ ALL ABOUT TIME; a sampling of monologues and music looking at time and how much can happen in time. T Salon, NYC. December. 1999 -Playwright/Composer/Lyricist/Director from Beyond Words : The Musical ~ SEA FEVER, as per above, including from Riverdance, Deidre Goulding as the "Sea Nymph". Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI. September. 1999 - Screenwriter -- THRESHOLD, an adaptation of the original play. A futuristic fable set at the end of the 20th Century through the year 2017. Examination of the fragility of the world's environment as examined from Earth and Space. A "Who Done IT" that makes an impact so profound that it alters the way mankind relates to itself and to its planet. June. 1998 - Playwright -- from Beyond Words: The Musical ~ ODE TO A DAD, James Winter Concert - A Monologue by Maureen Barnes. Performed by Loren Small. Newport Baptist Church in Newport, RI. June. Playwright & Instructor -- "FAMILY LITERACY SUMMIT": "THE GUSHY PEOPLE", a book ( possible CD ROM ) for children. It is about how we are all different and yet, how we are all the same. "The Gushey People" are made of sponge. They absorb everything and so they offer many life lessons. Providence Convention Center, Providence, RI. April. 1998 - Filmmaker "USA Volleyball - New England Style" a documentary on the USA Volleyball Tournament as represented in the New England Region. Shot on location at the Navy Educational Training Center in Newport, RI. January. 1997 - Librettist, Lyricist, Composer & Director -- from Beyond Words: The Musical ~ PREVAILING WINDS, Set on a chartered sailboat , it concerns the sojourn of nine individuals who hit storms at sea… inside and out. Book by Maureen Barnes, Lyrics by Barnes & Milner Music by Atwood, Barnes, Milner & Weiss, Magician's Birthday Performance Center, The Seamen's Institute, The Rotunda, Easton's Beach, Newport, RI. June-September. 1997 - Playwright & Director -- SKIING BLIND, A Cabaret-Reflecting A Journey 1997 - Playwright & Performer -- "THE POETIC PALETTE", Original Readings from The Newport Review: A Journal of Art, Literature & Ideas. Newport Congregational Church, Newport, RI. February. 1996 - Playwright/Director/Composer/Lyricist, from Beyond Words : The Musical ~ MIXED MESSAGES, an evening of musical theater that attempts to ask the all too familiar quandaries that "mixed messages" can cause in everyone's life. Music-In-A-Mansion Series. At the Elks Mansion, Newport, RI. June. Playwright/Director/Composer/Lyricist-- from Beyond Words: The Musical ~ MIXED MESSAGES, an evening of musical theatre that combines two summer themes and two very important Newport experiences: Romance and Sailing. It follows shifting courses, emotional buffeting and those out-to-sea feelings so often found in one's unending search for some safe port of unconditional love. Initial Workshop Version. The Chatsworth, NYC. February. 1995 - Screenwriter/Co-Director--"Rare Renaissance Man", a Documentary by Maureen Barnes and Dennis Evans, on the creative life of Cultural Commissioner John Chatty. Seaman's Institute, Newport, RI. December. 1995 - Playwright/Director -- from Beyond Words: The Musical ~ SOUNDS OF THE HOURGLASS. Echoing sentiments about the essence of angels, the mystery surrounding the passage of time and vagaries involved in the prospects for the future. Original music and visual art bring celestial citizens down to earth while time-keepers of all sorts manage to stop the clock just long enough for the audience to hear the Sound Of The Hourglass. Trinity Church, Newport, RI. December. 1994 - Playwright & Director -- THE SEA OTTER, an environmental tale of the first oil-covered sea otter to die as a result of the Valdez oil spill in Alaska. At Interarts Theatre, Palenville, NY. September. 1994 - Playwright -- FROM FAIRY TALES TO APRIL FOOLS, A Modern Myth with Music. A comic triangle investigating the age old quip: "It's not what you say but how you say it". Interarts Theatre, Palenville, NY. September. 1993 - Playwright & Director-- THE SEA OTTER. This dramatic monologue with original music and visual art is about the plight of the first oil-covered sea otter found dying following the 1989 Valdez Oil Spill in Alaska. Set on a space station in the year 2017, an astronaut recalls this troubling environmental tale. The piece involves pertinent quotations & environmental visuals. These beautiful but often disturbing pictures serve to enhance this cautionary tale. NASA photography is added startling reality to the play. RI Committee for The Humanities in conjunction with Harvest by the Sea. The Seaman's Institute, Newport, RI. October. 1993 - Playwright/Director -- THE SEA OTTER, Benefactors of the Arts, Carroll Auditorium, Rogers High School, Newport, RI. November. 1993 - Playwright/Director -- THRESHOLD, a Futuristic Fable in three acts based in part on an idea by Sergei Sikorsky. World Scholar Athlete Games, Environmental Theme Day, O'Hare Auditorium, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI. June. 1993 - Director--LIES written & performed by Ron Parker, a One Man Show. 1993 - Playwright/Composer/Lyricist-- from Beyond Words: The Musical ~ THIRTY NINE & STILL SAMPLING. Selections from eight original plays with music & dance. The common bond that strings together these pieces is the search for the eternal verities when looking for love, whether that love be platonic or otherwise. The J.J. Shubert Penthouse at The Dramatist Guild, NYC. February. 1991 - Playwright & Director -- THRESHOLD, a Futuristic Fable in Three Acts based in part on an idea by Sergei Sikorsky. XOX Gallery, Providence, RI. March 1990 - Playwright & Director -- THRESHOLD, a Futuristic Fable in Three Acts based in part on an idea by Sergei Sikorsky. Soviet American Conference on World Dangers: FACING APOCALYPSE; Newport Institute of Non-traditional Medicine, Moscow. Salve Regina University, Performed simultaneously in Russian & English. Newport, RI. June. Playwright/Director--"Spending our Children's Inheritance- Exhibiting Errors in the Environment", a staged reading of THRESHOLD geared for the Exhibit, 1989 - Choreographer -- Very Special Arts Festival, "True Colors", a series of dances in wheelchairs and out of them. Performed by the Break-A-Leg Players, Colt State Park, Bristol, RI. July. 1989 - Playwright & Director -- THRESHOLD, a Staged Reading of the Futuristic Fable in Three Acts based in part on an idea by Sergei Sikorsky: Premiere. Staged Reading, The Chatsworth, NYC. February. 1989 - Playwright -- TO PLEASE A LADY, A Play in Two Acts with Music & Dance. Commissioned by the Swanhurst Chorus, performed by the Swanhurst Chorus, The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theater, the Island Moving Company, Cumberland Company, Children of St. Michael's School and Others. Rogers High School Auditorium, Newport, RI. January. 1988 - Artist-in-Residence, SHAKE-A-LEG, {a Center providing new possibilities for those with Spinal injuries}. Performing Arts Coordinator, Instructor and Playwright. Newport, Rhode Island. Summer. 1988 - Playwright -- FOREIGN WHEELS, a multi-media tragicomedy with Music & Dance. An honest look at life in a chair. Eisenhower House/Fort Adams, Newport, RI. August. 1987 - Playwright -- GLENDANCE ON PLASTIC, a Multi-Media performance by Choreographer Glenda Medeiros, Cambridge Multi-Cultural Arts Center. Funded by the Mass. Arts Lottery and The Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA. June. 1986 - 1987 Editorial Assistant -- The Scleroderma Society, Inc., including its quarterly, "Scleroderma Outlook"; NYC. 1986 - Playwright -- DESPERATE WOMEN, a comedy in one act about living with and learning from childhood memories as adults. Ensemble Studio Theater, Octoberfest, NYC. October. 1985 - Writer, Technical/Narrative--"Achievement Convergence Disparity Amongst Majority & Minority Students" a Analytical Study. 1984 Research Assistant-- "Coltrane's World", by Eric Nisenson & Robert Palmer, (Doubleday). 1981 - 1982 Writer-In-Training Program -- "Ryan's Hope", ABC Studios, NYC. Claire Labine, Program Director. 1981 - Playwright -- FROM FAIRY TALES TO APRIL FOOLS, (a Modern Myth In Two Acts) Staged Reading, Theater Development Fund, Time Square, NYC. February. 1980 - 1081 Journalistic Reporting/Public Relations--Alaska D-2 Lands Issue Tour; Carlson, Rockey & Associates, NYC. 1980 - Research Assistant-- "Round About Midnight", A Portrait of Miles Davis by Eric Nisenson, (Dial Press, 1982). 1979 - Assistant to Aboldshar Farman-Farmaian--author of "Iran: How and Why - The Hostages" (Working Title) Responsible for First Draft editing, rewrites and assigned research. 1979 - Screenwriter-- "The Daytime TV Man", co-written with Nicholas Benedict. A quirky study of the fine line between one actor's character and characterization, complicated by an Iowan Toll Booth Operator's obsessive stalking. Optioned in 1980. Rewritten and updated in 1999. EDUCATION: AWARDS AND ACADEMIC HONORS: PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS: 1979 "Untangling the Knots" -- A Sourcebook of Life and Career Planning and Resource Development, by Maureen Barnes. South East Regional Resource Center, Juneau, Alaska. 1979 "Inner Dimensions" -- by Maureen Barnes, Twyla Coughlin and Betty Long. Alaska State Department of Community and Regional Affairs. Juneau, Alaska. REPRESENTATIVE FUTURE PROJECTS: 2001- 2002 Beyond Words The Musical-- A Work In Progress about the search for unconditional love, the creative process & the attack on 9/11 on the Twin Towers as seen through the eyes of seven different kinds of artists and seven different kinds of simple and not so simple folk. Playwright -- The Habit Of Being, a One Woman Show based on the book of the same name. Examining the insight, wit and courage of short story writer Flannery O'Connor. With special focus on her struggle with Lupus Erythematosus. 2000 Playwright -- Relaxin' At Camarillo, a Drama with Music in Three Acts about the relationship between Charlie Parker, the legendary jazz musician, and his Jewish, Californian psychiatrist. Based on a story by Eric Nisenson. 2001 "Passengers In The Park "-- A Work In Progress, a Teleplay about three generations of a family owned horse and carriage and the stories surrounding its passengers. Set in Central Park, NYC. 2003 "FROM THE GOLDFISH BOWL" -- Screenplay based on Novella of same name. A true tale about being stalked before the term "stalked" even existed. |
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