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Sharon Sassone, also known as ShaSha, is an award-winning playwright residing in Portland, Oregon, where she received the 2006 Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama for her play, Hebrew Lessons,[1] and won the 2006 Lake Oswego Playwriting Competition with Poor Micky Spencer's Daughter Ordeal.[2]

Sassone is a native Chicagoan and spent most of her forty-plus-year career in Chicago, where she acted, coached, directed, and produced at her intimate 40-seat theatre, A Stage of One's Own, located under the El tracks on Damen and North Avenues in historic Wicker Park and Bucktown.

Sassone was among the founders of the Chicago Rhinoceros Theatre Festival, the Around-the-Coyote Festival, and the Chicago Dramatists Workshop, and she hosted many new theatre companies in her space from 1987 to 1997.

In 1997, Sassone relocated to Oregon to be near her sons who had already moved there. She began working with the Bluestockings and founded the Portland Dramatists Workshop which encourages and assists budding playwrights. Sassone continues to act, write, and produce in Portland[3][4] and is the Artistic Director of the Portland Dramatists Workshop.[5]

Sassone's plays include:

  • Fort Vancouver
  • Hebrew Lessons
  • My Life as a Cow
  • Kama Sutra Wednesdays
  • Details at Eleven
  • Little Brown Fucking Machines
  • The Conditions of Unconditional Love
  • Meow
  • A Room of My Own
  • Jerusalem Story
  • Poor Micky Spencer's Daughter Ordeal
  • Golden Mountain
  • Mabel in Rebellion
  • Mad Dogs and Englishmen

and many more.


References

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  1. ^ http://www.literary-arts.org/fellowships/past_writers.php
  2. ^ "2006 Playwriting Competition". Spotlight: News & Events at Lakewood Center for the Arts 53 (6): 19. May 2006.
  3. ^ Ben Raines. "Theater reviewed: Cafe con Leche", The Oregonian, 1998-2-13.
  4. ^ http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/festival_artists.html
  5. ^ http://www.cnrg-portland.org/node/5723
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