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Marnich began writing for television when she joined the HBO drama Big Love as staff writer for the show's third season. She remained on that show through its fifth and final season. Since, she worked on Showtime's The Big C and The Affair (as co-executive producer); and for AMC's Low Winter Sun.
Biography. Melanie Marnich’s plays include Quake, Blur, Tallgrass Gothic, These Shining Lives, Calling All, Beautiful Again, The Sparrow Project and A Sleeping Country. A Sleeping Country won the 2007 Kaplan Award for Playwriting from Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and received its world premiere there in March 2008.
These Shining Lives is a play written by Melanie Marnich. [1] It is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company - a watch factory based in Ottawa, Illinois . The play showcases the danger women faced in this workplace and highlights the wider lack of concern companies had for protecting the health of their ...
Time: 1920s and 1930s. Cast Size: This play is written to accommodate 6 actors, but there are as many as 18 roles if the doubling recommended in the script is ignored. Male Characters: 2 (who also double as 7 other minor characters) Female Characters: 4 (who also double as 5 other minor characters) Characters That Can Be Played by Any Gender: 4.
While this play focuses on something tragic, playwright Melanie Marnich has written a play that is truly a roller coaster ride. With the expected moments of sadness also come many moments of laughter, beauty and fun.
Melanie Marnich's plays include Quake, Blur, Tallgrass Gothic, Beautiful Again These Shining Lives and Cradle of Man, which will receive its world premiere at Florida Stage, and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award.
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Sep 20, 2018 · Melanie Marnich’s one-act, directed by Kristin Davis, details the radioactive history of the “Radium Girls” of Ottawa, Illinois. Painting the dials of the watches and clocks at the Radium...
