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Rosalyn Drexler Biography ((?)-)

Addresses: Home: 400 W. 43rd Street, New York, N.Y., 10036.

SIDELIGHTS: Vocalist with jazz group Écoutez at S.n.a.f.u. in New York City.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

playwright

Famous Works

• Plays Published
• The Line of Least Existence and Other Plays, 1967; Theatre Experiment, 1967; Collision Course, 1967-68; Methuen Playscripts, 1969; The Off-Off Broadway Book, 1972; Fiction, 1972.
• Plays Produced
• Home Movies, Judson Church, Provincetown Playhouse, NYC, 1964; The Investigation, Miami University, Ohio, 1979, Theatre Company of Boston, 1966, New Dramatist's Committee, NYC, 1966, Milwaukee Repertory, 1966,Open Space, London, England, 1969; The Line of Least Existence, Judson Poets' Theatre, NYC, 1969, Theatre of the Living Arts, Philadelphia, 1970, Traverse, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1968, New York, Network Theatre, New York,1980; Hot Buttered Roll, New Dramatist's Committee, New York, 1968, Milwaukee Repertory, 1966, Open Space Theatre, London, England, 1969; Skywriting, Cafe Au GoGo, New York, 1968, Dowling College, 1973; The Ice Queen, The Proposition, Boston, 1973, Kornblee Gallery (with puppets),1965; Softly and Consider the Nearness, Manhattan Theatre Club, 1973,West Carolina University, Cullowee, NC, 1973; The Bed Was Full, New Dramatist's Committee, 1972; She Who Was He, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 1974; New York Theatre Strategy, New York, 1974; Travesty Parade, Center Theatre Group, Los Angeles, 1974; The Writer'sOpera, Theatre for the New City, New York, 1979; Graven Image, Theatre for the New City, 1980, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1980; Vulgar Lives, La Mama, New York, 1979; The Tree Artist, Gateway, Long Island, NewYork, 1981; Starburn, Theatre for the New City, New York, 1983; The Mandrake, Center Stage, Baltimore, 1983; Dear, SoHo Repertory, New York, 1983; Room 17C, Omaha Magic, Omaha, NE, 1983; Delicate Feelings, Theatre for the New City, New York, 1984.
• Books
• I Am the Beautiful Stranger (novel), 1965; One or Another (novel), 1970; To Smithereens (novel), 1972; The Cosmopolitan Girl (novel), 1975; Starburn: The Story of Jenny Love (novel), 1979; Bad Guy (novel), 1982; books written under pseudonym of Julia Sorel, (novelizations of movies)--Rocky, 1976; Dawn, Story of a Teenage Runaway, 1976; Alex, The Other Side of Dawn, 1977; See How She Runs, 1978; Unwed Widow (novel), 1975.
• Anthologies
• The Bold New Women, 1966; New American Review, 1969.
• Reviews, Articles, Criticism
• Vogue, movie reviews; New York Times, Sunday Arts and Leisure section, movies, theatre and art; Sports Illustrated, Esquire, The Village Voice, Viva, Madamoiselle, Harper's Bazaar, Craft Horizons, Paris Review, MS, New York Magazine.
• Principal Film Appearance
• Who Does She Think She Is?, an hour film about Rosalyn Drexler, distributed by New Yorker Films.
• Principal Television Appearances
• Sunday Morning, CBS, 1980; David Frost Show; Dick Cavett Show.
• Theatre-Related Career
• Teacher, creative writing, University of Iowa Writers Workshop, 1976-77;teacher, playwriting, Miami University Center for the Performing Arts, OH, 1979; teacher, playwriting, and directed a new play, Oberlin College, OH, 1980;teacher, playwriting, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1981-82; teacher, playwriting, Hofstra, NY, 1980; teacher, playwriting, Rhode Island University, 1982; distringuished visiting writer and teacher, creative writing and dream literature, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA, 1983; New York University's Writers Conference, Vermont, 1983; teacher, creative writing, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 1983-84.