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Mary Hall Surface's work has been featured at Seattle Children's Theatre, Dallas Children's Theatre, Arizona's Childsplay, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, as well as ten productions at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. , in every region of the US, as well as in Ireland, France, Peru, Germany, Italy and across Canada. An anthology of five of her plays, Most Valuable Player and Four Other All-Star Plays for Middle and High School Audiences was published by Smith and Kraus. She has been nominated for four Helen Hays Awards for Outstanding Direction -- for the Round House Theatre's TinTypes ('93), for TFA's Grimm Tales ('00),Sing Down the Moon ('01) and Perseus Bayou ('02) (for which she recieved the award) and for the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play for Sing Down the Moon, Perseus Bayou and Mississippi Pinocchio (all three written with composer David Maddox). A national leader in her field, she was the director of New Visions 2000: One Theatre World, a national festival of theatre for young people and families, co-produced by the Kennedy Center and ASSITEJ/USA in May 2000. Her recent projects include , A Light in the Storm, based on the book by Karen Hesse, which opened at the Kennedy Center in October 2001 and The Odyssey of Telemaca, her sixth collaboration with David Maddox, which will premiere at Theater of the First Amendment in June 2004.
Visit Mary Hall Surface at Willie Bell Music
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