Mary Humphrey Baldridge
GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play
Written by: Mary Humphrey Baldridge
Directed by: Elizabeth Ripley
Photo by: Danielle Horn
...the play does have a brooding intensity that not only builds to a creepy finale, but pays off intellectually as we see the idea for "Frankenstein" get patched together in Mary's mind. ...Perhaps Genesis' strongest virtue is in showing that social stigmas can maintain a chokehold over human desires, even among the wanton leisure class. By God, it is The Real World.
~This Week On Stage, NYC~
Written by: Mary Humphrey Baldridge
Directed by: Elizabeth Ripley
Photo by: Danielle Horn
...the play does have a brooding intensity that not only builds to a creepy finale, but pays off intellectually as we see the idea for "Frankenstein" get patched together in Mary's mind. ...Perhaps Genesis' strongest virtue is in showing that social stigmas can maintain a chokehold over human desires, even among the wanton leisure class. By God, it is The Real World.
~This Week On Stage, NYC~
NEW PLAY! LAND WARRIOR
Playwright
"I have always been interested in the line between reality and unreality."
~MHB~
MARY HUMPHREY BALDRIDGE
34-54 10 Street, Long Island City, NY 11106
(718) 278-0702
mhb3454@nyc.rr.com
Member Dramatists Guild, NYC
(Founding) Member Playwrights Guild of Canada
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RUTH & ROBERT & ROBERT & RUTH
Canadian premiere 2005, FemFest, Sarasvati Productions, Winnipeg; staged readings: Carol Shields Festival of New Works, Winnipeg; Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC
GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play
NYC/USA premiere 1994, co-produced by The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and Deep River Productions. Originally titled THE MARY SHELLEY PLAY - awarded Canada Council three-month artist's grant; Canadian premiere 1978 at Regional Theatre, Theatre Calgary; productions at the Poor Alex, Toronto, Theatre 3, Edmonton, Ryerson University, Toronto, University of Western Ontario and Evergreen College, Olympia, WA. Published by Playwrights Union of Canada (PUC) Play Service.
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOMENT
NYC/USA premiere, The Neighborhood Group Theatre on Theatre Row, 1984, directed by Jeff Zinn; REVISED and revived by independent producing company/NYC, 1987, directed by Phillip Warner; Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC, 2000. Canadian premiere 1974, Theatre 3, Regional Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, directed by Mark Schoenberg; productions at Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon, Medicine Hat Firehall Theatre, Vancouver Community College;hour-long radio adaptations over CBC National/Canada and ABC Australia. Title scene from …MOMENT included in Taking the Stage: Selections from Plays by Canadian Women, Playwrights Canada Press, 1994. Published by Playwrights Union of Canada (PUC) Play Service.
THE REVENGE OF THE DINOSAUR LADY
Canadian premiere 2004, GOYA Theatre, Ottawa.
LA BONNE DAME
Dance/drama, text adapted from work of George Sand. NYC/USA Premiere 1998, French Institute/Alliance Française, NYC (Performances in English and French); The Kaye Playhouse, 2001; Little Flower Theater, LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts & Music and Art, 2002.
THE SANITATION CHRONICLES (with Paul Brno)
NYC/USA Premiere, Love Creek Productions, NYC, 2005, directed by George Spaventa; staged reading Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC; Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios, 2007, directed by Peter DeMaio.
ONE-ACT PLAYS
BRING BACK LILLIAN WALD - East Village Chronicles, 2004, Metropolitan Playhouse, NYC, directed by Harold G. Baldridge.
statenislandferryA-train play (IN MEMORY) - The Neighborhood Playhouse, 2003, directed by Steve Ditmyer.
MONSTERS - two short plays, THE REAL LARRY TALBOT and the time we've all been dreaming of… (about Rimbaud & Verlaine), published by Cubicle Press, 2004.
Other, multiple-produced plays include - TONIGHT AT CALGARY THEATRE HALL! (commissioned by Theatre Calgary for City of Calgary's 100th anniversary, toured Province of Alberta); THE LUNCHBOX REVUE (commissioned for inauguration of new theatre in Calgary); adaptation of Shakespeare's RICHARD III (commissioned by Theatre Calgary for city-wide Jr. High School tour); THE SUICIDE MEET; melodrama HOW THE WEST WAS WON; OFF THE HOOK (commissioned by The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, NYC); hour-long radio dramas produced over CBC Radio Canada (eg., "Servants of Cerberus" on the cult program Nightfall).
~MHB~
MARY HUMPHREY BALDRIDGE
34-54 10 Street, Long Island City, NY 11106
(718) 278-0702
mhb3454@nyc.rr.com
Member Dramatists Guild, NYC
(Founding) Member Playwrights Guild of Canada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
RUTH & ROBERT & ROBERT & RUTH
Canadian premiere 2005, FemFest, Sarasvati Productions, Winnipeg; staged readings: Carol Shields Festival of New Works, Winnipeg; Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC
GENESIS: The Mary Shelley Play
NYC/USA premiere 1994, co-produced by The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and Deep River Productions. Originally titled THE MARY SHELLEY PLAY - awarded Canada Council three-month artist's grant; Canadian premiere 1978 at Regional Theatre, Theatre Calgary; productions at the Poor Alex, Toronto, Theatre 3, Edmonton, Ryerson University, Toronto, University of Western Ontario and Evergreen College, Olympia, WA. Published by Playwrights Union of Canada (PUC) Play Service.
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MOMENT
NYC/USA premiere, The Neighborhood Group Theatre on Theatre Row, 1984, directed by Jeff Zinn; REVISED and revived by independent producing company/NYC, 1987, directed by Phillip Warner; Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC, 2000. Canadian premiere 1974, Theatre 3, Regional Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, directed by Mark Schoenberg; productions at Persephone Theatre, Saskatoon, Medicine Hat Firehall Theatre, Vancouver Community College;hour-long radio adaptations over CBC National/Canada and ABC Australia. Title scene from …MOMENT included in Taking the Stage: Selections from Plays by Canadian Women, Playwrights Canada Press, 1994. Published by Playwrights Union of Canada (PUC) Play Service.
THE REVENGE OF THE DINOSAUR LADY
Canadian premiere 2004, GOYA Theatre, Ottawa.
LA BONNE DAME
Dance/drama, text adapted from work of George Sand. NYC/USA Premiere 1998, French Institute/Alliance Française, NYC (Performances in English and French); The Kaye Playhouse, 2001; Little Flower Theater, LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts & Music and Art, 2002.
THE SANITATION CHRONICLES (with Paul Brno)
NYC/USA Premiere, Love Creek Productions, NYC, 2005, directed by George Spaventa; staged reading Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC; Theatre 54 @ Shetler Studios, 2007, directed by Peter DeMaio.
ONE-ACT PLAYS
BRING BACK LILLIAN WALD - East Village Chronicles, 2004, Metropolitan Playhouse, NYC, directed by Harold G. Baldridge.
statenislandferryA-train play (IN MEMORY) - The Neighborhood Playhouse, 2003, directed by Steve Ditmyer.
MONSTERS - two short plays, THE REAL LARRY TALBOT and the time we've all been dreaming of… (about Rimbaud & Verlaine), published by Cubicle Press, 2004.
Other, multiple-produced plays include - TONIGHT AT CALGARY THEATRE HALL! (commissioned by Theatre Calgary for City of Calgary's 100th anniversary, toured Province of Alberta); THE LUNCHBOX REVUE (commissioned for inauguration of new theatre in Calgary); adaptation of Shakespeare's RICHARD III (commissioned by Theatre Calgary for city-wide Jr. High School tour); THE SUICIDE MEET; melodrama HOW THE WEST WAS WON; OFF THE HOOK (commissioned by The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, NYC); hour-long radio dramas produced over CBC Radio Canada (eg., "Servants of Cerberus" on the cult program Nightfall).