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Marilyn Campbell is a published playwright, award-winning actress, independent producer, teacher and co-founder of the Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, Illinois. Her co-adaptation with Curt Columbus of Crime and Punishment won Chicago's 2003 Joseph Jefferson Award, Best New Adaptation and was subsequently published by Dramatic Publishing. Since its publication, Crime and Punishment has enjoyed numerous productions across the country including the following: Arden Theatre Company; Round House Theatre; Orlando Shakespeare Festival, where it won Top Pick at the 2005 Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays; Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; 59E59 Street Theatre in New York City; and in 2009, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Indiana Rep and Intiman Theatre among others. Campbell's other full-length plays include the award-winning My Own Stranger, a co-adaptation based on the writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton; The Beats, based on the writings of the 1950's beat poets (which starred David Cromer as Allen Ginsberg); and The Gospel According to Mark Twain, a co-adaptation based on the later writings of Mark Twain, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland. Campbell is currently writing a new play, commissioned by Writers' Theatre and based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, entitled The Monster's Lullaby. She is also co-authoring and performing in an original comedic work with her daughter, Maria Merrin, entitled Mixing It Up. For more, please visit www.marilynRcampbell.com.
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