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~
LAND WARRIOR - Finalist Centenary Stage Company
Susan Glaspell contest & Staged Reading, 2010, dir.
Jessica Beltz; Staged Reading, Neighborhood Playhouse,
dir. Harold G. Baldridge, 2007; Reading,Workshop Theater
Company, 2009, dir. Steve Ditmyer.
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
Lifetime Member Dramatists Guild, NYC
(Founding) Member Playwrights Guild of Canada
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THE REVENGE OF THE DINOSAUR LADY
Drama Dock, Vashon, WA, 2010, dir. Elizabeth Ripley. Finalist 2009 Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest. Canadian premiere 2004, GOYA Theatre, Ottawa.
RUTH & ROBERT & ROBERT & RUTH
Canadian premiere 2005, FemFest, Sarasvati Productions, Winnipeg; staged readings: Carol Shields Festival of New Works, Winnipeg; Staged Reading, Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC, dir. Harold G. Baldridge
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, dir. Rick McNair; 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, dir. Jeff Zinn; REVISED and revived by independent producing company/NYC, 1987, dir. Phillip Warner; Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC, 2000. Canadian premiere 1974, Theatre 3, Regional Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, dir. 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.
LA BONNE DAME (with Deborah Zall, Choreographer)
Dance/drama, text adapted from work of George Sand. NYC/USA Premiere 1998, French Institute/Alliance Française, NYC (Performances in English and French), dir. Harold G. Baldridge; The Kaye Playhouse, 2001; Little Flower Theater, LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts & Music and Art, 2002.
ONE-ACT PLAYS
BRING BACK LILLIAN WALD - East Village Chronicles, 2004, Metropolitan Playhouse, NYC, dir. Harold G. Baldridge.
statenislandferryA-train play (IN MEMORY) - The Neighborhood Playhouse, 2003, dir. Steve Ditmyer.
NEW PLAY
The COLD HOUSE - Staged Reading, Neighborhood Playhouse, 2010, dir. Mary & Harold Baldridge
~MHB~
MARY HUMPHREY BALDRIDGE
34-54 10 Street, Long Island City, NY 11106
(718) 278-0702
mhb3454@nyc.rr.com
Lifetime Member Dramatists Guild, NYC
(Founding) Member Playwrights Guild of Canada
_____________________________________________________________________________________
THE REVENGE OF THE DINOSAUR LADY
Drama Dock, Vashon, WA, 2010, dir. Elizabeth Ripley. Finalist 2009 Mountain Playhouse International Comedy Playwriting Contest. Canadian premiere 2004, GOYA Theatre, Ottawa.
RUTH & ROBERT & ROBERT & RUTH
Canadian premiere 2005, FemFest, Sarasvati Productions, Winnipeg; staged readings: Carol Shields Festival of New Works, Winnipeg; Staged Reading, Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC, dir. Harold G. Baldridge
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, dir. Rick McNair; 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, dir. Jeff Zinn; REVISED and revived by independent producing company/NYC, 1987, dir. Phillip Warner; Workshop at The Neighborhood Playhouse, NYC, 2000. Canadian premiere 1974, Theatre 3, Regional Theatre, Edmonton, Alberta, dir. 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.
LA BONNE DAME (with Deborah Zall, Choreographer)
Dance/drama, text adapted from work of George Sand. NYC/USA Premiere 1998, French Institute/Alliance Française, NYC (Performances in English and French), dir. Harold G. Baldridge; The Kaye Playhouse, 2001; Little Flower Theater, LaGuardia High School for Performing Arts & Music and Art, 2002.
ONE-ACT PLAYS
BRING BACK LILLIAN WALD - East Village Chronicles, 2004, Metropolitan Playhouse, NYC, dir. Harold G. Baldridge.
statenislandferryA-train play (IN MEMORY) - The Neighborhood Playhouse, 2003, dir. Steve Ditmyer.
NEW PLAY
The COLD HOUSE - Staged Reading, Neighborhood Playhouse, 2010, dir. Mary & Harold Baldridge