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Lenora Champagne is American playwright and performing artist.

Early years

As a child, Champagne wanted to be a doctor. She graduated with a B.A. in English from Louisiana State University, 1972, a M.A. in Drama from New York University, 1975, and a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University, 1980. She moved from Lousiana to New York City in the early 1970s expecting to be a painter, but took up performance art instead.

Career

From 1993-2000, Champagne was a member playwright at New Dramatists. Champagne is a professor and head of Theatre and Performance at Purchase College, SUNY.

Works

Champagne is the author of one book and also a number of essays, plays and performance texts.

• Out from Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists (1993) ISBN-13: 978-1559360098

Plays include:

• Memory's Storehouse (2011)
• Photo Finish (2010)
• Staying Afloat (2008)
• Traces/fades (2007)
• L'heure blue (2007)
• La Recherche du Pain Perdu (2006)
• Mother’s Little Helper (2003)
• Memoirs of a Cajun-American Princess (2003)
• The Mama Dramas (2002)
• Coaticook (2002)
• Dusk (2000)
• The Singing: a cyberspace opera (book and lyrics) with composer Daniel Levy (1998)
• Wants solo (1997)
• Wants for 3 actors (1996)
• My Nebraska (1996)
• Flying Home (1996)
• Valentine’s Day, 1980 (1996)
• The Best Things in Life solo (1993)
• The Best Things in Life for 3 actors (1994)
• A Tourist’s Guide to the Big Easy (1996)
• Creole, a Tropical Fantasy (1993)
• The Knowledge Project (1992)
• With You the Rest of… (1991)
• Isabella Dreams the New World (1993)
• On, Say, Can You See? (1990)
• Dr. Charcot’s Hysteria Shows (1988-89)
• Out from Under (1989)
• Women without Parts (1988)
• Sarah Bernhardt Meets Her Waterloo (1987)
• Fractured Tales from There to Here (1987)
• Winter Heat (1987)
• As Ready, Apart from Herself (1986)
• Home (1986)
• The Eye of the Garden (1985)
• Fractured Juliet (1985-86)
• From the Red Light District (1984-85)
• Reptile Warmth (1984-85)
• The Way to the River (1984)
• Flying Home (1983-84)
• Manna (1983)
• Getting Over Tom (1982)
• Women in Research (1981-82)

Awards

Selected awards include:

• 1996 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award for Wants (for 3 actors)
• 1993 Native Voices/Native Visions Playwriting Award for Isabella Dreams the New World

Personal life

Champagne lives in New York City's West Village with her husband, playwright and director Robert Lyons, and their daughter Amelie.

References

1. Rowe, Claudia (13 October 2002). "Performance Art In and Out of the Classroom". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
2. Dunning, Jennifer (1 June 2005). "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; A Tradition of Dance That Untraditionally Graced the Shores of Manhattan". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
3. Anderson, Jack (4 November 1984). "THE STAGE: 'RED LIGHT'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
4. Leja, Lauren, It's Crazy—Troubles of Modern Life at the ICA, retrieved 19 September 2015
5. ^ Lenora Champagne, retrieved 19 September 2015
6. Lenora Champagne, retrieved 19 September 2015
7. About, retrieved 19 September 2015
8. Tallmer, Jerry (5 August 2010), What did Nostradamus know about Soho’s fate?, The Villager, retrieved 19 September 2015

External links

• Website for Lenora Champagne

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