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Morality Play

Posted on March 13, 2012 | Plays

Book and lyrics by Burroway, with music by Curtis Powell and Matthew K. Kiedrowski, a musical adaptation of the Barry Unsworth novel of that name is under development in Chicago. It had its first fully …

An Interview with Janet Burroway, by Jocelyn Cullity

Posted on September 1, 2011 | Interviews

From The Writer’s Chronicle, Volume 44, Number 1, September 2011. Excerpt Cullity: If you had one thing—only one thing—that you wanted to get across to apprentice-writers, what might it be? Burroway: This: Right now—whether you’re in writing …

Dew Point

Posted on April 9, 2011 | Plays

A ten-minute play, reading at Chicago Dramatists, June 2011; finalist for the Heideman Award of Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2012.

Medea with Child

Posted on March 13, 2010 | Plays

It’s an old, old story: Daddy falls in love with a younger woman, and Mom says it’s okay, but then she murders the woman and her father and the kids… Winner of the Reva Shiner …

A Woman of Letters: An Interview with Janet Burroway

Posted on April 10, 2009 | Interviews

From Saw Palm.

Janet on Symbolism and Metaphor

Posted on April 7, 2009 | Video & Audio

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Long Time No See

Posted on April 9, 2008 | Plays

A ten-minute play, produced at Bloomington Playwrights Project, Bloomington, Indiana, July – Aug. 2008, reprised Nov. 2009. Finalist for the Heideman Award of Actors Theatre of Lousiville, 2010. Published in Narrative Magazine Spring 2012.

Parts of Speech

Posted on March 13, 2004 | Plays

Parts of Speech was given readings with Jane Alexander in the leading role, in a staging by Edwin Sherin, at the Florida State University Conradi Theatre, 2004; at the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, 2007; winner of …

Division of Property

Posted on March 13, 2001 | Plays

Winner of the 2001 Arts & Letters Prize (chosen by Lanford Wilson), produced at Milledgeville, GA, April 2002, published in the Spring 2002 issue of Arts & Letters. Produced for the Imago One-Act Festival at …

Sweepstakes

Posted on February 11, 1999 | Plays

Reading at the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, Oct. 1998 (finalist in the annual Dramarama competition); production by the Arts Repertory Theatre at Tallahassee Little Theatre, Feb. 11-21, l999; reading, the Royal National Theatre Studio, …

Opening Nights

Posted on April 9, 1997 | Plays

Opening Nights, (radio adaptation with Charles Olsen) production by the Tallahassee Repertory Company; sponsored by WFSU TV and the FSU School for the Production of Film, Television and the Recording Arts; transmission WFSU (NPR) summer l997.

Texts for Dance

Posted on March 13, 1997 | Plays, Texts for Dance

Dadadata: Homage to John Cage; The Empty Dress; Text/Tile.