RUTH MARGRAFF

Ruth Margraff has been called a leader in the new opera, music/theater movement in America and just received her 4th Rockefeller Foundation commission with Big Red Media, a NYSCA Individual Artist award, a Fulbright new opera award (Greece) and was selected for a CultureConnect envoy to Calcutta (India). Her work has been developed and produced by Hourglass Group/Century Center Ballroom/PS122, BAM Next Wave and BAMCafe, the Apollo, CAMI, HERE/Harp, Public, Cooper Union, Lincoln Ctr, Kitchen, NYTW, Guggenheim Museum, etc. (NYC); internationally at the 2005 Festivalul International de Teatru de la Sibiu Festival (Transylvania, ROMANIA), 2005 Karantena Performing Arts Festival (Dubrovnik, CROATIA), Artemovszk 38 Flagship on the Danube River, Trafó-Kortars Muveszetek Haza, Hungarian National Theatre/Dramaturgs' League (Budapest, HUNGARY), 2005 Poisti Vlna Next Wave Festival, Prague Theatre Institute (Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC), 2001 Beogradski Letnji Festival/Countess Ljubice Museum, Rex Centre and Dah Teatar (Belgrade, SERBIA), Bijenale Vizuelnih Umetnosti/Ukrstanja 10th Biennial of Visual Arts (Pancevo, Yugoslavia) 2002 Bolshoi Zal American Series/Library for Foreign Literature and 2003 Novaja International New Drama Festival/Golden Mask Association/Moscow Art Theater (Moscow, RUSSIA); 2003 Rebetiko Music Conference/Melina Mercouri Hall (Isle of Hydra, GREECE), Theater Nohgaku/National Noh Theater of Japan (Tokyo, JAPAN), Proximity Lab/Canadadian Council (Vancouver, CANADA) throughout Great Britain and nationally at Actors Theatre of Louisville Apprentice Co. Winter Showcase (Kentucky), Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park/Rosenthal Plaza (Ohio); Playwrights' Center, Red Eye, Walker Art Center (Mpls); Salvage Vanguard, Rude Mechanicals, Fronterafest, Nerve Dance Co., Deborah Hay Dance Co., Sharirworks (Austin); Seattle Rep. (Seattle); Northeastern University (Boston); University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa (Alabama); Undermain, Club Dada (Dallas); Perishable, AS220 (Providence); Iowa Playwrights' Workshop (Iowa City); Bottom's Dream, Audrey Skirball-Kenis, Overtone Industries (Los Angeles), etc.. Ruth’s work is published by Kendall/Hunt(University of Arizona), Watson Gutpill/Backstage Books, American Theatre, Theater Forum, Dramatist, Johns Hopkins, Manchester, NuMuse Anthology/Brown, Chain/Temple, Epoch/Cornell, Conjunctions/Bard, Autonomedia, etc. Ruth has been the recipient of grants, awards and honors from the Jerome Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Theatre Communications Group/ITI, Bellagio , NEA/TCG, Arts International, Trust for Mutual Understanding of New York, CultureConnect, TCG/Metlife, etc. and has taught at the University of Texas/Michener Center, Brown University, Fordham, Yale School of Drama, Allihies Language & Art Centre (Ireland) etc. Ruth is an alumnus of New Dramatists and HERE’s Harp artist residency, core member of the Playwrights’ Center and co-leader of a Theatre Without Borders initiative on theater & peacebuilding with Brandeis University’s Slifka Coexistence International. She is represented by Susan Schulman Literary Agency, and is Associate Professor of Writing at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago.