photo by Terry St Cyr
Constance Congdon
Broadway Play Publishing Inc Playwright of the Year 1990
Constance Congdon wrote her first play, GILGAMESH, in 1976 and after it was produced, couldn't stop, and put aside her work as a poet. Since that time she has had plays produced in Moscow, Helsinki, Brixton, Manchester, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shelykovah, Russia, as well as all over the United States. Her plays CASANOVA and DOG OPERA were produced at the Public Theater in New York. TALES OF THE LOST FORMICANS is her most well-known play and has had over eighty productions world-wide, including in New York by the Women's Project. THE AUTOMATA PIETA, commissioned and produced by San Francisco's American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory, will be re-mounted at the Magic Theater in January 2000. She has written three librettos for operas and eight plays for children. The Profile Theater in Portland, Oregon is devoting an entire season to her work for their 2000 season. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, a member of PEN and the Dramatists Guild, and currently teaches playwriting at Amherst College.
BOARDERS (one-act)
Tales of the Lost Formicans and Other Plays