Cynthia L. Cooper
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By any other name?
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know her as:
'Cindy'
or plain old
'Cyn'
(photo by Arthur Zaczkiewicz)
know her as:
'Cindy'
or plain old
'Cyn'
(photo by Arthur Zaczkiewicz)
Selected Works
How She Played the Game (here) is a vibrant one-person play that tells the stories of six spirited women from sports history: 'inspirational' said Billie Jean King, 'makes you feel like praising,' the Village Voice.
What's Up
More Jewish Women You Should Know, The Anne Frank Center USA, May 16, 6:30 pm**The WikiLeaks Project, New York Theater Workshop Mon @3, Feb 2013**Silence Not, A Love Story with Gihon River Press, Oct 24, Anne Frank Center NYC**Gretel Bergmann from "How She Played the Game," Aug 23, Anne Frank Center NYC**Prisoner Diary Project Museum of Tolerance-NY, July 2012 (here), NYC**SILENCE NOT, A Love Story, Holocaust Museum, DC, book signing**CHEATING JUSTICE Book Court, Brooklyn**League of Professional Women in Theater Blog, (here).**HOW SHE PLAYED THE GAME, PASSAGE Women's Conference, PA** SENTENCES AND WORDS Manchester Coll. IN**SILENCE NOT, A Love Story, Finalist, "Best Historical Fiction," Books & Authors**SOR JUANA Whittier, CA**SECOND SIGHT, The Hive, NYC**Saving Grace Portage Comm Th, WI ** FRONTLINES with Words of Choice
MOCKERY OF JUSTICE (here). A search for the truth behind a woman's murder and the case that propels 'The Fugitive' to fame.
NEW WORLD COURT TO JUDGE GENDER-BASED WAR CRIMES (here) The new International Criminal Court is a step forward for women victims of war violence -- Women's Enews
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NONFICTION AUTHOR
Cynthia L. Cooper is the author of several nonfiction books, including:
Bush and Cheney drove the nation to war based on false information, authorized illegal surveillance, adopted torture, and changed the nature of our democracy forever. Now it's time to hold them accountable.
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The tragic murder of Marilyn Sheppard was followed by other tragic murders in the Cleveland area. Why did authorities blame Dr. Sam and hide the evidence that showed his innocence, but pointed to a troubled windowwasher, Richard Eberling, finally arrested decades later for another murder.
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PLAYWRIGHT
Cynthia L. Cooper's plays -- Full-Length Plays, One-Act and Short Plays, and Plays for Young Audiences -- are stylized, humorous and dramatic stories of human quirks and challenges. Ten full-length and 20-plus one-act plays have been produced throughout the U.S., as well as in Canada, England, Israel, New Zealand, and elsewhere, and are published in 15 volumes. A playwriting profile tells all.
Plays include:
Plays include:
Also available as Go Girl Go, a version for K-7 young audiences featuring a girl in a soccer camp and for four women performers.
What did Babe Didrikson, Sonia Henie, Gertrude Ederle, Althea Gibson, Eleanora Randolph Sears and Gretel Bergmann have in common? All were exceptional athletes who broke sports barriers in history with accomplishments that exceeded those of the men around them. Uplifting tales for all ages and genders!
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OTHER Plays:
~Works of Art -- winner of the Pen & Brush Playwriting Contest 2002 and the Nantucket Short Play Festival; a woman sculptor tries a creative approach to marketing. Short play. Read 'Works of Art' online.
~SILENCE NOT, A Love Story -- NEW -- During a time of economic crisis, a Jewish woman and Catholic man find love and courage in resisting the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the early 1930s. Full-Length play. 2009 Publication: Gihon River Press.
~Sentences and Words -- A ten minute play in which two women, the lawyer for a defendant and a victim's mother, struggle with the death penalty; in Rowing To America and Other Short Plays. Short play.
~Words of Choice A collection of shorts from several writers, woven into an ensemble performance.
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~Works of Art -- winner of the Pen & Brush Playwriting Contest 2002 and the Nantucket Short Play Festival; a woman sculptor tries a creative approach to marketing. Short play. Read 'Works of Art' online.
~SILENCE NOT, A Love Story -- NEW -- During a time of economic crisis, a Jewish woman and Catholic man find love and courage in resisting the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the early 1930s. Full-Length play. 2009 Publication: Gihon River Press.
~Sentences and Words -- A ten minute play in which two women, the lawyer for a defendant and a victim's mother, struggle with the death penalty; in Rowing To America and Other Short Plays. Short play.
~Words of Choice A collection of shorts from several writers, woven into an ensemble performance.
See more in PLAYS.
JOURNALIST
Cynthia L. Cooper is an independent journalist whose articles have appeared in magazines, websites, newspapers and television, garnering several awards along the way. Excel Award for Under the Influence.
"A Cancer Grows" in "THE NATION"
Stories include:
~Holocaust Women's Rape Breaks Decades of Taboo in Women's eNews
~The Gulf Rush: Katrina workers are the latest catastrophe in In These Times
~A Cancer Grows: Medical Treatment in Women's Prisons Ranges from Brutal to Nonexistent in The Nation reprinted in TomPaine.com
~Help, Is It a Conspiracy?-- Drugs You're Being Blocked from Getting in Glamour Magazine
~Women Documentary Filmmakers as Social Activists in Women's Enews
~Touched by a Centurion -- Group works to free inmates in tainted capital cases in American Bar Association Journal (ABAJ)
~A Human Rights Community in the Ford Foundation magazine
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~Holocaust Women's Rape Breaks Decades of Taboo in Women's eNews
~The Gulf Rush: Katrina workers are the latest catastrophe in In These Times
~A Cancer Grows: Medical Treatment in Women's Prisons Ranges from Brutal to Nonexistent in The Nation reprinted in TomPaine.com
~Help, Is It a Conspiracy?-- Drugs You're Being Blocked from Getting in Glamour Magazine
~Women Documentary Filmmakers as Social Activists in Women's Enews
~Touched by a Centurion -- Group works to free inmates in tainted capital cases in American Bar Association Journal (ABAJ)
~A Human Rights Community in the Ford Foundation magazine
See more in ARTICLES.