ELLEN
MADDOW
Ellen Maddow is a founding member of Talking Band, and has written, composed
music for and performed in a majority of its works. Plays she has written for the
company include Shimmer and Herringbone (with Paul Zimet), Lemon Girls,
or Art for the Artless, Fusiform Gyrus - A Septet for Two Scientists and Five Horns, Burnished By Grief, The Golden Toad (with Paul Zimet), The Peripherals, Panic!, Euphoria! Blackout, Flip Side, Delicious Rivers, Painted Snake in a Painted Chair and five pieces about the avant-garde housewife, Betty Suffer. Recently she performed in Existentialism created and directed by Anne Bogart at La Mama, and The Following Evening written and directed by Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone at PAC-NYC . She received an NYC Women’s Fund Award for her play Lemon Girls or Art for the Artless and a Drama Desk Award for her performance in Clare Barron’s Dance Nation at Playwrights Horizons. She is the recipient of an Obie Award for Playwriting, a Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theatre, McKnight and NYFA Playwriting Fellowships and an NEA/TCG Award for Playwrights, She was Member of the Open Theatre and is an alumnus of New Dramatists.
NEW PLAYS BY
ELLEN MADDOW
BURNISHED BY GRIEF
Burnished By Grief is a sinister romantic comedy is inspired by Ellen Maddow’s work as a mediator in Brooklyn Civil Court, where she has witnessed how the city’s extraordinary diversity, combined with close living, has produced complex misunderstandings and remarkable relationships. It is a chaotic, over-stimulated urban mash up filled with constant motion, scrambled energy and the overlapping realities of race, culture and multiple generations. Seven characters long for a pocket of stillness, the solace of beauty, relief from loneliness and the possibility of falling head over heels in love with their opposites.