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Late Night in the Emst Lab The<1tre Department of' Theatre and Dance What Keeps Me Here College of'Arts and Humanities Mard1 16, 22, & 23 at 11pm; March 17 at Bpm University ofHawai'i at Mano;1 ~ Prin~don ~ ~edpi1per About the Playwrightj Playwright, screenwriter; and sometime actress Beth Henley first entered the critical spotlight in 1978 when Crimes oF the Heart ~~Wn the Great American Play Contest sponsored by the Directed by. Glenn Cannon Actors Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky. The play went on to win Scenic Design: Kelly Berry several more awards, including the New Yor* Drama Critics Ci~le Costume Design: Sandra Finney Award For best new American play and the Pulitzer Prize For lighting Design: Vincent Uem drama, both in 1981. Henley also received a Tony Award Technical Diret:UJr: Gerald Kawaoka nomination For best play and, five yr!ars later; an Academy Award nomination For best adapted screenplay. The play and Cast (in order of"a ppearance}: subsequent film ~rsion showcased Henley as one oFa new breed Lenny Magrath: Natalie Mihana McKinney oFAmerican dramatists dedicated to preserving regional voices Chick Boyle: Rasa Radha Foumier on the stage. Doc Porter: Scot Davis Elizabeth Becker Henley was bom May 8, 1952, in Jackson, Meg Magrath: Amy Joy Matsen Mississippi, the daughter oFan attomey and an actress. Early on Babe Botrelle: Lauren Marie Kepa a she dreamed oF becoming an actress, and to that end she Barnette Uoyd: Jeremy G. Pippin eamed a B.F.A. at Southern Methodist Uni~rsity in 1974. While at SMU, fhe wrote her first play, the one-act Am I Blue, Setting: which was produced at SMU's Margo Jones Theatre in 1973. The kitchen oF the Magrath home in the small town oF In 1976, she moved to Los Angeles to li~ with at:UJrjdiret:UJr Hazlehurst, Mississippi. The play happens o~Diane Keaton, Jessica Scene II - The Next Moming Lange, and Sissy Spacek as the three sisters, with additional perFormances by Tess Harper and actor/playwright Sam Shepard. Henley Followed the success oF Crimes oF the Hegrt with There will be one intermission The Miss Firecracker Contest. First produced onstage in between Acts I and II- at which time Los Angeles in 1980, the play ~~Wuld likewise be adapted into a reffeshments will be available Hollywood film with a screenplay by Henley. Her most recent For purchase on the Upper Lanai. play, lm00ssible Marrii!J!e- debuted off-Broadway in 1998, written while Henley was pregnant with her first child. Please tum offor silence allpagers, Today, Henley lives in CaliFornia with her son, Patrick. phones and digital watches. No photography or video recording is allowed. Please reFrain From eating, drinking Produced by special ammgement with Dramatists Play Service, or smoking in the theatre. Inc. Originally produced by Actors Theatre oF Louisville, Inc. in February 1979. Crimes OF The Heart recei~d its New tOr* For large print programs or program inFormation premiere at the M anhatten Theatre Club, in 1980. Produced on in alternate Formats, please contact the House M anager; or the Broadway Stage by Wamer Theatre Productions, Inc./Claire call the Kennedy Theatre Box Office at 9 56-7655 (vjt). Nichtem, M ary Lea Johnson, Martin Richards, Francine LeFrak.