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Interview with Open to Hope

Posted on January 5, 2016 | Interviews

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A Mini-Documentary with Kevin Featherly

Posted on May 24, 2015 | Interviews, Video & Audio

This Think Piece Publishing mini-documentary chronicles Janet’s visit to Minneapolis on Aug. 15, 2014, where she gave a reading from the book, and later she sat down with journalist Kevin Featherly for an on-camera interview. …

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Interview with Florida Humanities

Posted on June 26, 2014 | Interviews

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Janet Burroway answers Bernard Pivot’s questionnaire

Posted on January 9, 2014 | Video & Audio

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Realest(ate) Love

Posted on February 8, 2013 | Video & Audio

Lyrics by Janet Burroway; Music by Philip Wharton. Caroline Worra, soprano; Michael Ching, piano.

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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

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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.