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  • I Am My Own Wife: Studies for a Play about the Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf

    I Am My Own Wife: Studies for a Play about the Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf - Paperback

    I Am My Own Wife: Studies for a Play about the Life of Charlotte Von Mahlsdorf - Paperback

    By Doug Wright

About Doug Wright Books

Doug Wright's Quills received the 1995 Kesselring Prize for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club and a 1995 Village Voice Obie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Playwriting. Wright also wrote the screenplay adaptation of Quills, making his motion picture debut. The film was named Best Picture by the National Board of Review and was also nominated for three Oscars. Some of Wright's other plays include Interrogating the Nude, Watbanaland, The Stonewater Rapture, Dinosaurs, and a musical, Buzzsaw Berkeley, which features songs by Michael John LaChiusa. Wright has a bachelor's degree from Yale University and an M.F.A. from NYU. A member of the Dramatists Guild and the New York Theatre Workshop, he has taught playwriting at NYU and Princeton University.