ARTS ALLIANCE Spotlight: Terry Marks w/ Helen Murray, American Stage
Season 2, Episode 211, Nov 04, 03:26 PM
Photo: Helen Murray and Terry Marks
In this episode of Arts Alliance Spotlights..., CEO Terry Marks talks with Helen Murray, Producing Artistic Director of the acclaimed American Stage. Fresh from Wierd in St. Pete (which she wrote), American Stage debuts The Mountaintop in early November, followed by an immersive Tinsel Town in the venue and A Wonderful Life featuring local favorite Gavin Hawk and Helen in a heartwarming 75 min retelling of the classic holiday story, Wonderful Life where one actor plays every character in Bedford Falls. The 2025 provocative line-up includes: This Girl Laughs This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing; Hair; Fat Ham plus their education classes and Beyond The Theater series. https://www.americanstage.org/
Murray brings an impressive multi-disciplinary career to American Stage. She is the recipient of the Puffin Foundation Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist, the Washington Canadian Partnership Award for Leadership in the Arts, and her play Redder Blood won the 2016 Jewish Playwriting Contest. She is the outgoing Executive Director of the Aurora Fox Theatre in Aurora, Colorado. Before that she served as Artistic Director of the Hub Theatre in Virginia.
She has built an artistic career on championing new play development both for up and coming and well established writers. Her own original plays have been produced by the Hub Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Arts West, Malibu Playhouse, the JCC of Northern Virginia and have been seen at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival; she continues to mentor for the Writer's Guild Initiative out of NYC. She has directed across the country including Malibu Playhouse, The Hub Theatre, The Aurora Fox, Montgomery College, Spooky Action Theatre, and the Kennedy Center P2S. In addition to her roles offstage, Helen has worked as an actor in many Washington, D.C. area theaters, including Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Theatre J, Forum Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Rorschach Theatre, Keegan Theatre, the Inkwell, the Source Festival, and the Beckett Centenary Festival. Helen has also appeared in numerous independent films and commercials. Her co-adaptation of Wonderful Life earned her a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding New Play, and her original play, Abominable, was nominated for the national Steinberg New Play Award. She is also the recipient of the Puffin Foundation Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist, the Washington Canadian Partnership Award for Leadership in the Arts, and her play Redder Blood won the Jewish Playwriting Contest.
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Murray brings an impressive multi-disciplinary career to American Stage. She is the recipient of the Puffin Foundation Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist, the Washington Canadian Partnership Award for Leadership in the Arts, and her play Redder Blood won the 2016 Jewish Playwriting Contest. She is the outgoing Executive Director of the Aurora Fox Theatre in Aurora, Colorado. Before that she served as Artistic Director of the Hub Theatre in Virginia.
She has built an artistic career on championing new play development both for up and coming and well established writers. Her own original plays have been produced by the Hub Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Arts West, Malibu Playhouse, the JCC of Northern Virginia and have been seen at the Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival; she continues to mentor for the Writer's Guild Initiative out of NYC. She has directed across the country including Malibu Playhouse, The Hub Theatre, The Aurora Fox, Montgomery College, Spooky Action Theatre, and the Kennedy Center P2S. In addition to her roles offstage, Helen has worked as an actor in many Washington, D.C. area theaters, including Folger Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, Theatre J, Forum Theatre, Theatre Alliance, Rorschach Theatre, Keegan Theatre, the Inkwell, the Source Festival, and the Beckett Centenary Festival. Helen has also appeared in numerous independent films and commercials. Her co-adaptation of Wonderful Life earned her a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding New Play, and her original play, Abominable, was nominated for the national Steinberg New Play Award. She is also the recipient of the Puffin Foundation Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist, the Washington Canadian Partnership Award for Leadership in the Arts, and her play Redder Blood won the Jewish Playwriting Contest.
#americanstage #beyondthetheater #terrymarks #stpetersburgartsalliance #arttalks #helenmurray #theater #musicaltheater #downtownstpete #stpete #stpetefl #tampabay #radio #radiostpete