Barbara Field
Barbara Field was a playwright whose work has been seen at theaters across North America and Europe.
Education
Field was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota.Career
She wrote adaptations of such great works of literature as Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol, both by Charles Dickens, and of Scaramouche, by Rafael Sabatini. Great Expectations won the L.A. Drama critics award in 1996. Other plays include Neutral Countries, co-winner of the Humana Festival's Great American Play contest in 1983, and Boundary Waters, for which she received a DramaLogue Award in 1992. She also authored three books, New Classics from the Guthrie Stage and Barbara Field, Collected Plays, Vol I & II.Field was a co-founder of The Playwrights' Center and served as playwright-in-residence at the Guthrie Theater from 1974 to 1981.