She became a U.S. citizen in 1951. Fornes's large body of work includes more than 35 original plays spanning 1961 to 2000. As a writer, she resisted labels, telling The New York Times in 2000, I don't feel any responsibility [to Cubans or Cuban-Americans] at all. The celebrated playwright, director, translator, lyricist, and seven-time Obie Award winner, has been an influential voice in American theatre for more than four decades and a highly-regarded teacher of playwriting. Even when she finally leaves him and marries a new man, Mark, she cannot give up Julio, who continues to torment her and eventually drives her into a murderous rage, the cost of which will be her sanity and freedom. Fornss breakthrough came quickly, in 1965, with successful productions of both There, You Died! In 1945, she moved to New York City with her mother and sister. This volume, her second of collected plays, includes the recent Mud, The Danube, Sarita . Her teenage years are marked by men coming and going from her life, an early pregnancy, and a volatile love affair with Julio that continues into adulthood. It may sound selfish, but in my workshops I teach people to write about whatever comes to their minds. When asked about her work as a lesbian playwright in 1999 by, , she continued that theme, "Being gay is not like being of another species. Ms. Forns (pronounced for-NESS) made a name for herself early in her career with antic and allusive work that drew on the renegade, absurdist spirit of the 1960s and helped define Off Off Broadway and the American avant-garde. The aria is a climax to a roundabout story that unfolds in 20 short scenes over 90 minutes, taking place from 1939 to 1947. 10 (Fall, 1984), pp. She asks her classmate Yeye (Gabi Campo) to divine whether Julio really loves her. Paperback ($24.95), Ebook ($24.95) Buy. Theater World Friends Bring Ailing Playwright Closer to Home. The New York Times, The New York Times, 6 Feb. 2013. . Vanasco, Jennifer. After her father died in 1945, she moved with her mother and sister to the United States, becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951. The Obies cited three of her plays that were produced that year. The Forns Institute, an initiative of the Latinx Theatre Commons (LTC), aims to preserve and to amplify Mara Irene Forns's legacy as a teacher, mentor and artist, through workshops, convenings and advocacy. Omissions? [c] It was the last play she completed before health problems ended her writing career. Forns was raised in what she described as an artistic environment, telling the audience at a 1994 Dramatists Guild event. She does not know by whom. Sarita is a play/musical by Maria Irene Fornes. Margaret Harrington and Michael Sean Edwards from The Danube by Mara Irene Forns at Theatre for the New City, 1983. Forns taught playwriting workshops at theatres and universities around the world, including Yale, Princeton, and Brown. Fornss friend and filmmaker Michelle Memran documented Fornss creative life through her battle with dementia in the 2018 film. 29-34. Carlos Forns died from a heart attack in 1945, prompting Carmen Forns to immigrate to the United States that year, taking 15-year-old Forns and her sister, 16-year-old Margarita, with her. Hans Hofmann Paintings, Bio, Hans Hofmann Paintings, Bio, Ideas. The Art Story, n.d. Interview: Maria Irene Forns and Bonnie Marranca. Performing Arts Journal, Winter, 1978, Vol. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize with her play And What of the Night? She looks much younger than when I last saw her, dressed now in a thrift-store silk navy coat, circa 1930s, and a black wool cap tilted gently to the left. She was also a master of stage silence.. Review: The Many Unusual Stages of Fefu and Her Friends. The New York Times, The New York Times, 25 Nov. 2019. What interests me is the mental and organic life of an individual. Miss Fornss lyrics, like her book, seem to have a sweetly irrelevant relevance, Clive Barnes wrote in his New York Times review of the 1969 production. When you write a play you are in such intimate relationship with itBecause in the process of creating a character or a world, one has to be humble, one has to allow for the play's images to take overYou have this very profound connection with it, and suddenly somebody who doesn't know anything about it (who immediately starts reading the play thinking, "What do I want to do with it?") She had had Alzheimers disease for some time. The Conduct of Life (1985) . I'm writing about how people deal with things as an individual, not as a member of a type. She wrote more than 40 stage works and directed her own works as well as classic drama. 200 N. Riverside Drive She has received eight Obie awards in such categories as distinguished playwriting and direction and best new play for Promenade (1965), The Successful Life of 3, Fefu and Her Friends, The Danube (1982), Mud, Sarita (1984), The Conduct of Life, and Abingdon Square (1987). While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. The Legacy of Maria Irene Forns: A Collection of Impressions and Exercises. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art , Sep., 2009, Vol. In 2000, Forns told The New York Times. This year, Refocus refocuses on Latino playwrights, in partnershipwithPregones/PRTT. Her other later plays included Mud (1983), about a woman whose attempt to escape her life amid stifling ignorance on a remote farm is violently derailed; The Danube, an early-1980s story of a sweet romance that shrivels, as if by a poisoned world; The Conduct of Life (1985), about the savage home life of a Latin American soldier whose job is torturing prisoners; Abingdon Square (1987), about a young womans emerging self-awareness, both sexual and spiritual; Enter the Night (1993), a play about mortality and personal responsibility set in Manhattan during the AIDS plague; and Letters From Cuba (2000), a sweet-tempered autobiographical play based on decades of letters that Ms. Forns had received from a brother who never left Havana. Her best-known play, Fefu and Her Friends (1977), explores womens relationships with one another. A nine time Obie award winner, Forns became known as American Theatres Mother of the Avant-Gard as well as the mother of Latinx theater. Forns and the Magic in the Room. AMERICAN THEATRE, Theatre Communications Group, 7 Nov. 2018. Maria Irene Fornes (fawr-NAYS) was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1930. The Obie Awards do not use set categories but are adapted as circumstances require. Plays: Mud, The Danube, The Conduct of Life, Sarita by Maria Irene Fornes. But a young soldier named Mark stops her and falls in love with her. She never staged the play herself, and it is considered "a precursor" to her work as a playwright. Fornesian Animality: Mara Irene Forns's Challenge to a Politics of Identity., Barnes, Clive. Forns became a recognized force in both Hispanic-American and experimental theatre in New York. 1985 Obie Award for Best New American Play: 1986 Playwrights U.S.A. Award for translation of Virgilio Piera's. Still, over a long career during which she wrote dozens of plays, many of which she directed herself, and fostered the high-minded idea of the sovereign playwright by producing experimental plays and teaching a generation of younger playwrights, Ms. Forns gained a reputation within the theater world as an underrecognized genius. Dabney won the 1984 Obie Award for her performance. While pursuing visual art (and a romance with Harriet Sohmers Zwerling) in Paris in 1953, she saw the original production of, in French, a language she did not understand. The play, Ms. Fornss final one, was commissioned and given its premiere by the Signature Theater Company in Manhattan, culminating an entire season devoted to her work. It is aesthetic but it is also spiritual. Maria Irene Fornes Directed by: Rubina Vidal Location: Theatre B Friday, March 24, 2017 - 8:00pm Saturday, March 25, 2017 - 8:00pm When young Sarita sees her crush, Julio, flirting with other women, she vows to do the same with men, and she becomes pregnant. Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1705, Phone:319-335-2700Fax:theatre@uiowa.eduSite Map Login. Maria Irene Fornes: Profession : Writer, Playwright, Theatre Director . Hoffman is remembered as both an influential artist and influential teacher, a path Forns herself would repeat in her lifetime. Smith, Michael. ". , inspired by her correspondence with her eldest brother, who remained in Cuba throughout his life. Memran, Michelle. Sarita is in a constant struggle between love and lust, love winning out in the end. They fall in love and marry. She refused to confine herself to merely writing about her experiences as a Cuban, or a woman, instead choosing to write about whatever inspired her. Set in a house in New England in 1935, the eight female characters rehearse a presentation theyre planning to give for a charity event. The pair clasps hands as Sarita inquires fearfully about her future and "what they will do" to her in the asylum. Forns wrote characters of all kinds. The play tells the story of the fiery-tempered Sarita Fernandez, who is gradually torn apart by her sexual desires and moral values to the point of insanity. As time went on, though Ms. Forns never entirely eschewed allegory and elaborate metaphor, her work grew more realistic and psychologically probing. FERNANDO: Fela's tenant; age range: 60-68. Photograph of Rodolfo Daz and Sheila Dabney in the production, Sarita Object details: Physical object city: New York, New York, United States Physical object type: Scrapbook press clippings Digital object format: Image . But her only work to appear on Broadway, a 1966 comedy called The Office, directed by Jerome Robbins, closed in previews. 8, No. Preamble: Sarita Is Fit. Shaw, Helen. In her lifetime Forns would author over 35 plays, five with musical collaborators. Mara Irene Forns (May 14, 1930 - October 30, 2018) was a Cuban-American playwright, theater director, and teacher who worked in off-Broadway and experimental theater venues in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Tax ID Number: 13-6192346. Why The Broadway Body is Bad. Mara Irene Forns (May 14, 1930 - October 30, 2018) was a Cuban-American *avant garde *playwright and director, who was a leading figure of the off-off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. As a teacher, though, she spoke of the importance of training the next generation of Latinx playwrights, telling Bomb in 1984. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 1988 Obie Award for Best New American Play: 1990 New York State Governor's Arts Award, This page was last edited on 15 January 2023, at 16:41. , Winter, 1978, Vol. Maria Irene Forns was born on May 14, 1930, in Havana, Cuba, to Carlos Luis and Carmen Hismenia Forns. [33], Philip Glass composed a 30-minute chamber opera for three singers accompanied by keyboard and harp based on Forns' play Drowning.[34]. A memorial to those who lost their lives in 2018. For her there was no division between writing dialogue for a character and thinking how the actor playing that character would hold her hands onstage, or where the chair would be placed, or how the light would fall at the end of the scene. It has to do with poverty and isolation and a mind. "[10], Forns was a lesbian and included gays and lesbians in several of her plays. Largely an auto-didact, the first of her over three dozen plays, Tango Palace, was produced in 1963. Forns' awards were for Direction (2), Playwrighting (2), Best New American Play (2), Distinguished Plays, Special Citation, and Sustained Achievement. Forns's career as a playwright was sparked by several events. JULIO: Sarita's lover; age range: 15-23. The production includes violence, strong language, partial nudity, and the use of a weapon. It might not be ideal, but you can work here and earn a living. Though she had previously directed some of her own work, Forns shifted to directing all of her own premieres after a 1973 production of her 1968 play Mollys Dream, with music by Cosmos Savage. Maria Irene Fornes: Plays is a collection of four plays by one of the most distinguished playwrights in America. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Forns grew up in Havana, the capital of Cuba. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Irene-Fornes, The New York Times - Mara Irene Forns, Writer of Spare, Poetic Plays, Dies at 88. At its core, her work asks what it means to be human. The Good Scene: Off Off-Broadway. The Tulane Drama Review, Summer, 1966, Vol. Furthermore, her refusal to only write about Cuban or Latin American experiences proves that playwrights of color deserve the chance to write about whatever they want, whenever they want and should not be forced in writing about the trauma of their race or ethnicity. [21] First produced by the New York Theater Strategy at the Relativity Media Lab, the play's eight women gather to plan a fundraising presentation, real women engaged in a banal activity. In that play, the character who stands in for Ms. Forns is a dancer who is given few lines but expresses herself in eloquent movement, practicing balletic moves in her Manhattan apartment. 84. Obie Awards, American Theatre Wing, n.d. Alfaro, Luis. None of us could singSo my interest in art was a question of personal pleasure. We had no means of support in Cuba. She was a leading figure of the off-off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Both Fernando and Sarita refuse, Sarita because she still wants to go to school, and Fernando because Sarita is a "rude brat." She opens her arms for a hug. Forns has held teaching and advisory positions at several universities and theatrical festivals, such as the Theatre for the New City, the Padua Hills Festival, and the INTAR (International Arts Relations) program in New York City. La Maestra Forns Has Left the Room, but What a Room! AMERICAN THEATRE, Theatre Communications Group, 7 Nov. 2018. Theater: Promenade, Wickedly Amusing Musical. The New York Times, The New York Times, 5 June 1969. Hailed as game-changing, provocative, and genius, Fefu and Her Friends is one of the most influentialand invisibleplays of the 20th century. After attending a French production of Samuel Beckett's WAITING FOR GODOT, Forns decided to devote her creative energies toward playwriting. #Stageworthy News of the Week, Next Wave Festival Review: 300 el x 50 el x 30 el , The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window Review. 1-32. Its like Hofmanns push-pull in that the narrative doesnt control how the play proceeds, but the development of the energies within the play., In the 1950s Ms. Forns lived in Europe, mostly in Paris, where she was inspired, she said, by the original production of Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot.. Sarita (1984) dramatizes the struggle between accepted moral values and personal sexual desires. BOMB 10 Fall 1984. One night, she finally finishes a good-bye letter and goes to the Empire State Building to commit suicide. "[24] Mud exemplifies Forns' familiar technique of portraying a female character's rise opposed by male characters. Svich, Caridad, et al. 3 (Winter, 1978), pp. "Playwright Mara Irene Forns's production of her play MUD a .. Fefu y sus amigas ha sido traducida al espaol por Mara Irene Forns. [3] The piece is an allegorical power struggle between the two central characters: Isidore, a clown, and Leopold, a naive youth. Tom Stoppard on the Jews of Vienna, Here Lies Love Review: Disco Night With Imelda Marcos By David Byrne, What is immersive theater? [1], In 1982, Forns earned a special Obie for Sustained Achievement; in 1984, she received two Obies for writing and for directing three of her own plays: The Danube (1982), Mud (1983), and Sarita (1984). in 1990. Mara Irene Forns; Productions: Sarita (INTAR 53 Theatre, 1984) Tweets by CubanTheater Lighting designer and frequent Forns collaborator Anne Millitello won an Obie that year for Sustained Excellence of Lighting Design, and Forns herself won for both playwriting and direction. The relationships of things in space is intangible. In the next scene, Sarita, now 14 years old, tells her mother, Fela, that she is pregnant. The pair earned Forns her first Obie Award in 1965. [22][23] Forns called it "a pro-feminine play rather than a feminist play",[24] while one critic praises its exploration of the possibilities and risks of women's friendships. Seller Inventory # 4910368-n Forns wrote some of her most ambitious and celebrated works in the 1980s: Mud, a love triangle about an impoverished, rural woman's quest for self-improvement through education; Sarita, about a young Latina's experience of desire in the Bronx in the 1940s; The Conduct of Life, about the women in a violent military officer's home during a brutal Her productions were unforgettable. Like much of her writing, Tango Palace stresses character rather than plot. Irene was a pioneer in the American theater, though innovation was not her goal, James Houghton, the founding artistic director of Signature, said in an email in 2013. Forns was posthumously awarded a place on the Lucille Lortel Playwrights sidewalk. An absurdist two-character play, it was later renamed Tango Palace and produced in 1964 at New York City's Actors Studio. The playwright Mara Irene Forns in 2000. Sarita is flustered because she saw her crush, Julio, getting aroused while talking to a different girl. 1930". Sarita (Maria Irene Fornes) Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: This series contains texts of short stories; excerpts from larger prose works; scripts for derived works; excerpts from plays; and complete texts of short plays. Set in a house in New England in 1935, the eight female characters rehearse a presentation theyre planning to give for a charity event. Moment to Moment: With Maria Irene Forns, Autumn 2002. The Brooklyn Rail, 25 Feb. 2008. She attended the Obie Awards ceremony when passed the age of 100. Fornss plays are demanding of her audience. World Premiere in 1984 at INTAR in New York City. She was really a magical maker of theater.. Maria Irene Fornes 1930- Fornes is a pioneering avant-garde dramatist who helped create the off-off-Broadway forum during the 1960s. 28-30. I felt that I lacked the objectivity to make the play really sharp and for me to be sure exactly what I was doing. As she explained in a 1984 interview with, Fornss most famous work may be the 1977 play. The playwrights Paula Vogel, Sarah Ruhl, Nilo Cruz and Eduardo Machado, among others, credit her as an influence. Fornesian Animality: Mara Irene Forns's Challenge to a Politics of Identity. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 35.1 (2020): 9-28. 159-176. In Mara Irene Forns' 1984 musical "Sarita" presented in a rare staged reading free online through October 16th as part of Roundabout's Refocus Project we first meet the title character (portrayed by Darilyn Castillo) as a 13-year-old parochial school student in the Bronx in 1939. "[10] She lived with Sohmers in Paris for three years, and after their relationship ended Forns returned to New York City in 1957. She said, however, that she was not focused on examining such characters: "Being gay is not like being of another species. Her first foray into writing, in 1961, was an exercise in artistic solidarity with writer Susan Sontag, her partner at the time. Rebecca Aparicio (she/ella) is a New York based bilingual director and writer. She merely wrote from her gut, creating highly theatrical, impactful and visceral work., In late August, the Public Theater in Manhattan staged a 12-hour marathon of staged readings of Ms. Fornss work, led by the director JoAnne Akalaitis. A favorite of many critics, theater scholars and fellow playwrights, who often declared that her achievements far outstripped her fame, Ms. Forns came to playwriting relatively late her first artistic pursuit was painting and never earned the popular regard of contemporaries like Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, John Guare and Lanford Wilson. Sarita attempts to write several goodbye letters over the years, but she always ends up forgiving Julio. She wrote more than 40 stage works and directed her own works as well as classic drama. When young Sarita sees her crush, Julio, flirting with other women, she vows to do the same with men, and she becomes pregnant. Biography Mara Irene Forns (1930-2018) was born in Havana, Cuba. Though she had previously directed some of her own work, Forns shifted to directing all of her own premieres after a 1973 production of her 1968 play, with music by Cosmos Savage. I dont mean that if the dog is far from the master, it means that the dog is angry at the master. It has nothing to do with men and women. Review: Fefu And Her Friends Showcases Women As They Are: WNYC: New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News. WNYC, 2019, World Premiere play trailers or revival play trailer. 4 (Summer, 1966), pp. If you're gay, you're a person. Perhaps her best-known play was Fefu and Her Friends, a 1977 drama first presented by New York Theater Strategy, a company she helped found. That is more in Fornss story than in composer Leon Odenzs score, which is lively, eclectic, Latin-tinged, accompanied by piano and bongos although there is an aria by Castillo that is astonishing in its force and its feeling. Awards by Mara Irene Forns : Check all the awards nominated and won by Mara Irene Forns. The dramatic equivalent of a collection of poems, Richard Eder of The Times wrote of the play when it was presented Off Broadway in 1978. Included in this exploration is a critical analysis of Fornes' literary work through a sampling of plays within her vast expanse of literature: The Conduct of Life, Sarita, Fefu and Her Friends, and Mud. Scott T. Cummings considers comic sketches, opera libretti and unpublished pieces, as well as her best-known plays, in order to trace the evolution of her dramaturgy from the whimsical Off-Off Broadway . Instead, she worked in a shoe factory. Similar to the Hollywood Walk of Fame, this permanent monument in New York is dedicated to great, off-Broadway playwrights. Among the playwrights Forns taught are Migdalia Cruz, Caridad Svitch, Nilo Cruz, Anne Garca-Romero, Karen Zacaras, Elaine Romero, Cusi Cram, Luis Alfaro, Eduardo Machado and many others. Maria Irene Forns Biography. Forns Institute, Latinx Theatre Commons, n.d. Maria Irene Forns and Allen Frame. BOMB, Fall, 1984, No. "[19], She came close to having her work performed on Broadway in April 1966, when Jerome Robbins directed The Office starring Elaine May. Writing a decade later in the journal. JUAN: A friend and drummer. She passed away in Manhattan in 2018 at the age of 88. Please review its full disclosure statement. She would continue to use found objects as inspiration for her plays: second-hand furniture, a servants diary, and a language-learning record all became the starting point for plays. Mara Irene Forns, Writer of Spare, Poetic Plays, Dies at 88. The New York Times, The New York Times, 31 Oct. 2018. 106- 111. [2], In August 2018, as Fornes' death neared, a 12-hour marathon performance of excerpts from her works was staged at New York's Public Theater.[29][30]. Her family was poor, and she had little formal education, though her parents were book lovers and her mother, Carmen, taught school. Mara Irene Forns Biography. The three main male characters, Julio, Mark, and Fernando each represent a potential path for Sarita's affections and love. You are currently processing an exchange. Fornss work is strikingly original. She directed the premieres of the vast majority of her own plays and also was at the helm of several productions of classics (Hedda Gabler, Uncle Vanya) and new works by emerging playwrights, often her playwriting students. She later told an interviewer: "I didn't speak any French at all. Hoffmans work synthesized the techniques he had studied and practiced in EuropeCubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Surrealisminto what became Abstract Expression. The piece also explores the way the mind experiences poverty and isolation. Reflection on Contribution to Anti-Racist Theatre. The Signature Theatre opened its season with a double bill of, Forns constructed this piece from the hand-written diary of Evelyn Brown (18541934), who recorded her work at repetitive tasks in someone else's home in 1909 in rural, An enactment of the 1431 trial of Joan of Arc. Over the course of a day, these women address complex issues of gender, sexuality, class and mental health. Theater: Promenade, Wickedly Amusing Musical.. She is considered the mother of Latinx theatre in the United States as a result of her work as a teacher. Ms. Forns with, from left, her fellow playwrights Arthur Miller, John Guare, Edward Albee and Horton Foote before a round-table discussion at the Signature Theater in 2000. I'm writing about how people deal with things as an individual, not as a member of a type."[31]. 1 (1984), pp. She was also co-founder of the Padua Hills Festival and Workshop, which produced new, site-specific works in Claremont, California, from 1978-1995. Fornss most famous work may be the 1977 play Fefu and Her Friends, which inaugurated a more realistic period in her writing. Fela at first thinks her tenant, Fernando (an older man), has raped Sarita, but Sarita confessed that she'd been seeing many men and boys and she doesn't know who gave her the baby. 3 (Sep., 2009), pp. Richard Eder of The Times wrote of the play. Distorted scenery in later scenes places Sarita in a context that reflects her psychological state. From 1954 to 1957, Forns lived in Paris, studying to become a painter. It was directed by Forns and starred Sheila Dabney as Sarita. [17] With it, Forns also established her production style, which required her participation in the entire staging process. 106- 111. , Fall, 1984, No. Sarita is one of the three plays inYear 2 of Roundabout Theater Companys Refocus Project. Mara Irene Forns was a prolific writer and an iconic figure in American theater. "[3] In a 2013 interview, Tony Kushner said: "She had terrifyingly high standards and was terribly blunt about what others did with her work. Its hard to separate Forns the writer from Forns the director, Marc Robinson, a Yale professor who edited a collection of essays about her work, said in 2013. The Great Depression contributed to ongoing economic difficulties as well. Locally in New York City, as the director of the INTAR Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Lab in the 1980s and early '90s, she mentored a generation of Latin playwrights, including Cherre Moraga, Migdalia Cruz, Nilo Cruz, Caridad Svich, and Eduardo Machado. Mara Irene Forns (May 14, 1930 - October 30, 2018) was a Cuban-American playwright, theater director, and teacher who worked in off-Broadway and experimental theater venues in the last four decades of the twentieth century. About. More than just a prolific playwright, Forns was also a director and a teacher. Mara Irene Forns Forns was born on May 14, 1930, in Havana, Cuba, to Carlos Luis and Carmen Hismenia Forns. For most of the second act, Sarita struggles internally with her love for her new husband, Mark, and her lingering passion and desire for Julio. There was ongoing conflict between the ruling oligarchy in Cuba, which was backed by the United States, and a coalition of others seeking better wages, more rights, and social justice in the nation. [20], In Fefu and Her Friends (1977), Forns begins and ends with the audience seated as a single group facing a traditional stage. [22][23], In Forns' exploration of the world of Hispanic women in the US, the title character of Sarita begins in 1939 as a 13-year-old unwed mother in the South Bronx and at the end of the play enters a psychiatric hospital at the age of 21. MARIA IRENE FORNES . In 2000, Forns told, Forns's career as a playwright was sparked by several events. We came here for economic reasons. Thoughts: Of the four plays that I have read by the lovely Maria Fornes, this is the only . They dont document how they think, how they see. "Maria Irene Fornes b. The short scenes felt like little spells. Hispanic Playwrights-in-Residence Laboratory, 1982 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement. Leopoldstadt Review. After her father's death . And it turned my life upside down. That is the argument of this important new study, the first to assess Fornes's complete body of work. Fornss numerous awards include nine Obies, and in 1972 she received a Guggenheim fellowship. Lorraine Hansberrys Greenwich Village, Obie Winners: English, Martyna Majok, Ping Chong, Anne Bogart, Ralph Lee, etc. If you're gay, you're a person. There is a Dada zaniness here that creeps up on you where you least expect it, and a topsy-turvy Brechtian morality that is most attractive.. Taking up painting, she studied for a time with the Abstract Expressionist Hans Hofmann, whose push-pull theory of painting that the juxtaposition of abstract forms and their surrounding space creates a sense of depth and movement influenced her work as a playwright and director. 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