Marisha Chamberlain


Marisha Anne Chamberlain is an American writer. Her most recent work, the libretto for Mortals & Angels, a collaboration with American composer Carol Barnett, premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2016, a companion piece to their widely produced collaborative piece, The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass. Her stage plays, both original works and adaptations are widely produced. Her debut novel, The Rose Variations, was published by Soho Press in 2009. Her play, Scheherazade, won the Dramatists Guild/CBS National Award, and in her screenplay version, played on public television across the country, and was screened at the British Film Institute Festival in the category of Best of American Public Television.

Libretti

Plays

  • Hope for Breakfast, Playscripts Inc.
  • The Canterville Ghost, Playscripts Inc., 2004
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Playscripts Inc., 2004
  • Young Jane Eyre, Playscripts Inc., 2004
  • Evergreen, Playscripts Inc., 2004
  • Little Women, Playscripts Inc., 2003
  • Scheherazade, Dramatists Play Service, 1985
  • Scheherazade Litag Theaterverlag, Bremen, Germany, 1991

Fiction and poetry

  • The Rose Variations, Soho Press, 2009,
  • Powers, 1981,