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FRONT LINES: POLITICAL PLAYS BY AMERICAN WOMEN. Alexis Greene & Shirley Lauro, editors

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WELCOME TO THE WEBSITE OF ALEXIS GREENE: AUTHOR, BOOK and MAGAZINE EDITOR, ARTS and ENVIRONMENTAL JOURNALIST, AND PUBLICIST



Alexis Greene lives in New York City, where she writes about the arts, about women and about the environment. Author and editor of nine books about theater, she currently is Public Relations Director for the Community Environmental Center in Long Island City, Queens.

Her newest book is DURANG IN AN HOUR, a critical study of the American comedic playwright Christopher Durang, published by Smith & Kraus.

Other recent books include REBECK IN AN HOUR, a critical study of the American dramatist Theresa Rebeck; FRONT LINES: POLITICAL PLAYS BY AMERICAN WOMEN, edited with Shirley Lauro; THE STORY OF 42ND STREET, co-authored with Mary C. Henderson, and CURTAIN CALL: CELEBRATING A CENTURY OF WOMEN DESIGNING FOR LIVE PERFORMANCE, a 112-page art catalogue that Alexis edited for an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

In 2005, Alexis received the Special Achievement Award from the Ph.D. Alumni Association of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. With Shirley Lauro, Alexis was a finalist in 2009 for the Second Biennial Collaboration Awards of the New York Coalition of Professional Women in the Arts & Media.

Alexis is a member of PEN, The Authors' Guild and the League of Professional Theatre Women. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.








Selected Works:Click on a title below to go to the book's page

ARTICLES and BLOGS
THEATER HISTORY
A tantalizing journey through the grand historic theaters of the world's greatest thoroughfare.
CRITICAL STUDIES
This critical study of the late dramatist Wendy Wasserstein will be published in April 2013 by Smith & Kraus.
A concise and pungent look at an innovative American playwright. Published by Smith & Kraus.
Theresa Rebeck is that rare item, a commercially successful female playwright. This critical look is published by Smith & Kraus.
ART CATALOGUE
ANTHOLOGY OF PLAYS
Alexis Greene & Shirley Lauro Editors
WOMEN and THEATER
Essays and memoirs celebrating three decades of women writing for the English-speaking theater
Luxuriously in-depth interviews with playwrights such as Lynn Nottage, Paula Vogel, Cherrie Moraga
BIOGRAPHY
The definitive life of the producer and philanthropist who helped found the experimental world of Off Broadway

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