Jeanmarie Simpson Playwright · Actor · Director Licensing
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The Work

Thirteen plays, a published collection, nine productions, twenty-four directing credits, and two decades of commentary. This is the route into all of it.

Macbeth, the company

Five ways in

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The Plays
The Plays Thirteen titles, filterable by cast size and running time 02
When Churchyards Yawn and Other Plays, second edition
The Collection When Churchyards Yawn and Other Plays, second edition 03
Jeanmarie Simpson as Anne Hathaway in Shakespeare’s Will
Past Work Nine productions from Macbeth to Heretic 04
Richard III, Nevada Shakespeare Company
Directing Twenty-four credits, 1985 to 2008 05
A Single Woman, the script
Writing Scripts, commentary, and how to request them Start with the plays
Minimal staging, and language rich enough to carry the weight of it. The working method

Where most people start

Three plays

What has been staged

Production history
2010 to 2019 HERETIC, The Mary Dyer Story Mary Dyer Arizona Theatre Matters, and on tour 2009 to 2010 Coming In Hot Seventeen characters Kore Press, on tour 2008 The Color of Rose Rose Kennedy Theatre 40, Beverly Hills 2007 Shakespeare’s Will Anne Hathaway Theatre 40, Beverly Hills 2006 A Single Woman, the film Jeannette Rankin. Author and executive producer. Feature film 2004 to 2005 A Single Woman Jeannette Rankin. Playwright. Oats Park Arts Center, then The Culture Project, New York 2003 Amigas, and The Road to Mecca Marjorie, and Elsa Barlowe Nevada Museum of Art, and Nevada Shakespeare Company 2001 Romeo and Juliet Lady Capulet Nevada Shakespeare Company 2000 Macbeth Lady Macbeth Piper’s Opera House, Virginia City, Nevada
Coming in Hot is a tour de force. If you haven’t seen it, seek it out. Tucson Weekly
Directing

Twenty-four productions

From the inaugural Quilters in 1989 to As You Like It in 2006, with Richard III in 2001 as the favourite.

Directing credits
Writing

Plays, and the commentary around them

American Theatre Magazine, NEON, BroadwayWorld and Common Dreams, alongside thirteen plays.

The writing
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