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ROSEMARY ZIBART

Author - Journalist - Playwright - Mother - Grandmother

(WORKS AND AWARDS - SEE BELOW)


ROSEMARY ZIBART




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This hit Santa Fe production was also
a hit in New York City
July 26 and 27, 2008 at therianttheatre.com

 

VIDEO COMING SOON!!

 

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Rosemary Zibart: A Dramatist of the Heart

Rosemary Zibart is a Santa Fe writer who’s worked in every media from TV scripts to stories for children. Her articles in Parade Magazine, Time Magazine, USA Today and the Christian Science Monitor tackled issues such as how art can transform at-risk teens, and promoting the adoption of teenagers and other children.

One article featured the “Heart Gallery,” a movement begun in Santa Fe in which professional photographers shoot portraits of adoptable children and the portraits are hung in public venues like galleries, banks and shopping malls. The piece spurred people to take action and now Heart Galleries have been been established in forty-five states.

Another key topic for Rosemary is the experience of mental illness on families. In

 

Santa Fe, she helped produce a production in Santa Fe called “Minds Interrupted; Stories of Lives Affected by Mental Illness”, a series of heartfelt monologues by family members and individuals diagnosed with serious mental illness. Other performances of “Minds Interrupted” are scheduled for different communities.

About ten years ago, Rosemary returned to an old love, the theater, and has been writing plays, most of which have been produced locally; others have gained national recognition. See listing of plays, screenplays and stories below. 

Nowadays, Rosemary enjoys playing with her grandchild Brandon. She is continually inspired and humbled by the beauty of Santa Fe and its wonderfully diverse and talented residents.

 


Works

Short Plays (10-15 minutes):

Lim-bi-do – a menopausal woman struggles
with ambivalence about her fickle Libido
in the form of a sexy young vamp.

Performance Museo Cultural, July, 2008, with Genia Michael as Libido and Carmela Rapazzo as Lois)

Floss – a couple contemplates divorce
during morning floss.

Performance Museo Cultural, July, 2008,
with Joey Hegarty and Barry Hazen

Bastard – (2006 Benchwarmers, Santa Fe Playhouse; “Short and Sweet Play Fest; Sidney, Australia) – SEE PERFORMANCE

The Call – (2004 Benchwarmers, Santa Fe Playhouse)

A Lion’s Tale – an escaped lion spurs existential angst in a married couple.

Auction – an innovative solution to a tough issue – the future of the State of Israel. (2009 Benchwarmers, Santa Fe Playhouse)–
View excerpt

A Quickie, for God’s Sake - a couple debates careers and copulation.

The Call – produced at Voices of Fire Festival, University of New Mexico, 2000 and Santa Fe Playhouse, NM, 2003

Full-length Plays:

All Too Human – Frederick Nietzsche vies with Paul Rée for the attention of Lou Salomé but who will succeed in this battle of emotion over intellect…. (Semi-finalist, 2008 Eugene O’Neill National Playwriting Conference)

The Jewel in the Manuscript - when a frantic Fyodor Dostoevesky hires a young stenographer Anna Snitkina to help complete a novel in a month, love ensues… (Semi-finalist, 2009 Eugene O’Neill National Playwriting Conference)

One Act Plays:

Babe, Inc. – at a futuristic robotic dating service, a real woman, Dia, substitutes for a robotic Babe to accompany a man, Martin, to his mother’s funeral and the results are HAYWIRE! (Winner, 2007 NAAA Playreading Festival, Staged Reading held at Soho Theater, London); 2007, Last Frontier Play Festival, Valdez, AL; 5th place, 2008 Windsor Fringe; 2008 Strawberry One-Act Festival, NYC) – Stay tuned for video excerpt...

Plays for Youth:

My Dear Doctor – based on life of the first woman physician Elizabeth Blackwell. As Dr. Blackwell struggles to establish a medical practice in New York City in 1856, she also adopts an insecure young orphan Kitty. Will she succeed as a doctor and as a single mom?
Tied for 2nd place in the 2010 Jackie White Memorial Children’s Playwriting Contest


Never Ever Land – two children abandoned by their mother on the edge of the desert discover Dorothy’s silver slipper that she dropped on her way back from Oz and try to wish themselves back to Oz and out of their scary predicament.
Received Honorable Mention in 2008 Marilyn Hall Award for Youth Theatre; Beverly Hills Theatre Guild


Get It? – young people wrangle with issue of sexual harassment (Played in Santa Fe area schools for 6 years.)

 


Novels for Young People:

True Brit: Beatrice Arrives – a privileged English girl, Beatrice Agatha Sims escapes war-torn London in 1941 and ends up in the dusty town of Santa Fe with a no-nonsense public health nurse named Clem.
True Brit is being published Summer, 2011 by Artemisia Publishers with illustrations by George Lawrence.

Werner Berlinger - inspired by the 1000 Jewish orphans who arrived in the United States from Europe to escape Nazi Germany. Werner ends up on New York’s lower East side coping with loss and his love for Anika, another child displaced by the war.


The Last Day of My Life – sixteen-year-old Nina awakes from a horrifying nightmare in which she dies – as a single snowy day plays out hour-by-hour, Nina wonders if she truly will die…


Screenplays:

Trophy – a talented young photographer who’s stuck in a small New Mexico town caring for her invalid father meets a sharp New York celebrity. When a spark lights between them, the young woman is drawn to the big city with dreams of pursuing her photography but quickly becomes disenchanted with glam and glitter and must decide how to create her own future.

Dirty Linen – a Jewish girl in the Civil Rights era South learns that her father is complicit in a scheme to sell gas-polluted property to poor blacks in the community and must decide whose side she’s on.

Kaita – A Vietnam vet bonds with an African orphan, adopted by a U.S. family, who’s traumatized by his experience as a boy soldier. To save the boy, the vet must face demons from his own past.


Websites

www.thecrookedhouse.com - video-based stories, resourcse, a write-in forum and blog address the challenges of growing up with a parent who has mental illness

www.mindsinterrupted.com - describes the creation and presentation of Minds Interrupted: Stories of Lives Affected by Mental Illness – a series of monologues by people impacted by mental illness


Video Productions

Architectural Styles in New Mexico - 40-Minute video on the history of architecture in New Mexico (1988)

Looking  Back - Oral histories in a small Maryland town, (1985)


Writing / Journalism

Freelance Journalist 1986-2008 Parade, Christian Science Monitor, Time Magazine, Washington Post, USA Today

Author - Kidding Around in San Francisco, Travel Guide for Young people; John Muir Publications, 1989


Memberships and Awards

Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and Dramatist Guild

 “Angel in Adoption” - Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute, 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CONTACT ROSEMARY: rzibart -at- earthlink.net