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2012 Works in Progress |
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Amy Lowell, youngest daughter of the wealthy and prominent Massachusetts textile and banking family, published her first book of poems in 1912. It was not a success. Nonetheless, this powerful and passionate woman had found her purpose and vision that year. She continued to write and to publish for the next 13 years and eventually received the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. In addition to her own writing, she was a persuasive and untiring promoter of the “new movement” in American poetry. She travelled widely across the nation educating people about the works of Edwin Arlington Robinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, and others. In this performance, adapted from Lowell’s own work, you can witness this unique American woman, as she rehearses for our “input” her remarks for an upcoming lecture tour across the United States. J-Powers has adapted and directed this work for the stage.
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Featuring… Casey Kramer |
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Casey’s career has been marked by women in need of lawyers, guns and money. She was awarded the 2012 L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award for her work as “Rima” in Dolly West’s Kitchen at The Banshee. She worked with Studio Five in Shepard’s A Lie of the Mind; My Sister in This House at Deaf West; and, as “Ma Joad” in the popular Steinbeck send-off Of Grapes and Nuts for SeaGlass Theatre. The Celtic Arts Center hosted her in The Beauty Queen of Leenane. At The Theatre at Boston Court, she appeared in the world premiere of Unfinished American Highwayscape #9 and 32 by Carlos Murillo, directed by Jessica Kubzansky. She has garnered awards for Happy Birthday, Freddie!, Tower of Masks, 1789: The French Revolution, Romeo and Juliet, Just Like Home, A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Loyal Women. A Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio, Los Angeles audiences saw her “Martha” in the Studio production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by Barbara Bain, with special blessing from Edward Albee. Television credits include McBride, Criminal Minds, Dexter, Grey’s Anatomy, The Event, and Awake. Films include, The Runner Stumbles, The Lone Star Letters, Such Great Joy, The Substance of Things Hoped For, The Counter and Watercolors. She has enjoyed wicked luck in other ancillary pursuits as writer, trompe l’oeil muralist and skydiver. Many thanks to John Powers and congratulations on the Torrance Centennial!
Reel and news at TheRealCaseyKramer.com. Casey is represented by Rectangle Entertainment. |
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Casey Kramer in performance as Amy Lowell at Nakano Theatre |