Jeanmarie Simpson Playwright · Actor · Director Licensing

2003 · Nevada Museum of Art, and Nevada Shakespeare Company

Amigas, and The Road to Mecca

Marjorie, and Elsa Barlowe

Amigas, and The Road to Mecca

Years

2003

Role

Marjorie, and Elsa Barlowe

Company

Nevada Museum of Art, and Nevada Shakespeare Company

Credit

Directed by Cameron Crain, and by Zakes Mokae

The productionTwo productions in one year

Amigas was a two-woman performance adapted from a book of letters between the expatriate Chilean poets Emma Sepulveda and Marjorie Agosin. Jeanmarie played Marjorie; L. Martina Young portrayed Emma. Agosin, whose family fled the Holocaust, speaks Yiddish with a Chilean accent.

The Road to Mecca was directed by Zakes Mokae, a South African director with lived Apartheid experience, closely connected to Athol Fugard’s iconic work.

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Two productions in one year

Position in the record

Production 7 of 9

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This is production 7 of 9 listed on the site, and it appears in full on the resume alongside every other acting, directing and playwriting credit since 1982.

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The Road to Mecca, directed by Zakes Mokae
Amigas, and The Road to Mecca
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