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Sybille Pearson
Resident Bookwriter / Playwright

Phone: 212 992 9326
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Office: 113A Second Avenue 1FL

Biography

Sybille Pearson wrote the book for the musical Baby for which she received a Tony nomination. A revised version of Baby will be at The Papermill Playhouse in the spring of 2004.  She is the author of the plays: Sally and Marsha , Phantasie, Watching The Dog, Unfinished Stories, which was selected for publication in The American Theatre Magazine and True History and Real Adventure, a play with music (composer Mel Marvin).   Be Bold, a play commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles on the life of Salka Viertel, directed by Gordon Davidson, will go into production at the Taper in July 2004.  She is currently at work on Promise Me, a play on the life of the pianist Mona Golabek which is to be produced by the Mark Taper Forum in 2005.  She has won the Berrilla Kerr Award for Playwriting, the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, has been a recipient of a Rockefeller Playwrights Fellowship, a Ucross Fellowship, a participant at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference, the Sundance Playwrights Conference and the Sundance Theater Lab. She is a founding member of The Playwrights Circle at The New York Theatre Workshop and an Artistic Resident at the Vineyard Theater in New York City.  She is a Panelist for the O'Neill Musical Theater Conference, and a member of the Dramatists Guild.