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THE MARBLE MUSE by Diane Baia Hale

Rome, Italy—1858: Pioneering American female sculptor Louisa Lander has always dreamed of an artistic career, but the stigma of being a woman in her field has made the going hard. When famed author Nathaniel Hawthorne visits Rome and commissions a bust from her, she thinks her luck has turned. Hawthorne’s motives, however, may not be quite what they seem. She has no idea where her relationship with the celebrity creator of The Scarlet Letter will lead her, nor the price she will pay because rival sculptor William Wetmore Story feels that the commission should have gone to him. Based on a true story.

Directed by Rachel Berney Needleman

Starring

Elizabeth Dennehy, Christopher Franciosa, Belen Greene, Abigail Marks, Joey Maya, Andrew Thacher

Writer Bio

Diane Baia Hale is an award-winning Chicago-based playwright. Her historical drama The Marble Muse was a winner for Boomerang Theatre Company’s 2016 First Flight Festival and took third prize in the 84th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition (2015) in the Stage Play category. A semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2015 National Playwrights Conference, The Marble Muse also earned third prize for the 2015 Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women and received an Honorable Mention for the Ohio State University—Newark 2015 New Play Contest. Other full-length dramas include Rake (finalist, 2013 Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Play Competition; semi-finalist, 2014 Pride Films and Plays Contest), The Wisdom of Serpents (finalist, 2009 Jane Chambers Award), and The Lion’s Share. A 2009-2011 Senior Network Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, Diane is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the International Centre for Women Playwrights.

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