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Press Quotes for What Once We Felt
November 16th, 2009
A beguiling and ambitious play! The very talented Ann Marie Healy’s dark futuristic comedy lines up a series of provocative concepts and sends them spinning.
- David Cote, Time Out New York
A first class premiere for a $20 ticket!
- Michael Sommers, NewJerseyNewsRoom.com
A sci-fi flavored drama getting an impressive production by director Ken Rus Schmoll and crisp dialogue from Ann Marie Healy. A cautionary tale about technology that might make you think twice before you buy that Kindle.
- Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News
Director Ken Rus Schmoll highlights the all-pro cast’s delivery of Healy’s sparkling dialogue beautifully.
- Sam Thielman, Variety
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What Once We Felt / The New York Times
November 8th, 2009
The divide between the city’s scrappy downtown theater scene and the moneyed uptown institutions can sometimes seem impenetrable. But Lincoln Center Theater’s new LCT3 series was created to bridge that gap. This fall the company opens its season of three productions at the Duke on 42nd Street with What Once We Felt a new play by Ann Marie Healy about a novelist of the future whose book becomes the last to be printed on paper.
Grim parable? Macabre comedy? Naturalist drama? Given that subject matter, it could be any of the above, or a little of all three. Ms. Healy’s quirky comedy Have You Seen Steve Steven, about an oddball family inhabiting a suburban McMansion, was produced by the downtown theater collective 13P.
Directing What Once We Felt is another up-and-comer from the Off and Off Off Broadway world, Ken Rus Schmoll. His work has been seen at places like Performance Space 122 and presented by groups like the Clubbed Thumb company. He directed another notable 13P production, Anne Washburn’s “Internationalist,” which moved to the Vineyard Theater. The cast of What Once We Felt includes Opal Alladin, Mia Barron and Marsha Stephanie Blake.
- By Charles Isherwood
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What Once We Felt, a new play produced by Lincoln Center Theater
November 8th, 2009
Runs until Saturday, November 21.
- Extensive information and photographs available on The Lincoln Center Theater Web site
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Playwriting Biography
November 7th, 2009
Ann Marie Healy’s play What Once We Felt was a finalist for the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a recent finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. It is being produced at Lincoln Center’s LCT3 venue this fall, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll, and at About Face Theater in Chicago in Winter 2010.
Her play The Legend Of Minnie Willet was developed at the National Playwrights’ Conference (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center) last summer. Have You Seen Steve Steven was developed at the Sundance Theater Institute in the summer of 2007 and subsequently produced by 13P, the Obie-award winning collective, directed by Anne Kauffman. (TimeOut NY and FlavorPill picks). The Night That Roger Went To Visit The Parents Of His Old High School Girlfriend premiered in the 2006 EST Marathon of One-Acts plays (directed by Andrew McCarthy). Now That’s What I Call A Storm was the recipient of a development fellowship with MCC Theater (directed by Jo Bonney), and produced by Edge Theater Company in 2004, directed by Carolyn Cantor and featuring Marylouise Burke (TimeOut NY picks). Dearest Eugenia Haggis was developed through LAByrinth Theater’s 2004 summer intensive, The Cape Cod Theater Project and Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks. It was recently published in the anthology: Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays by Clubbed Thumb.
Ann Marie’s plays are published through Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts, PLAY: A Journal of Plays, and The Kenyon Review. She is an affiliated artist with the Obie-Award winning theater company Clubbed Thumb, with whom she has often collaborated over the last ten years, including productions and workshops of her plays Beach and Somewhere Someplace Else. She is also member of MCC’s Playwrights’ Coalition; a member of 13P; a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab; a former member of EST’s Youngblood and a writing fellow at New River Dramatists.
Ann Marie was awarded a 2006/07 Sloan Commission for her new play exploring the life and work of evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers. She is currently working on commissioned plays for Clubbed Thumb/NYSCA, Yale Rep and Playwrights Horizons. She recently completed her MFA with Paula Vogel and Bonnie Metzgar at Brown University (through the Lucille Lortel Fellowship.)