Cynthia L. Cooper

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How She Played the Game the complete, enriching 65-minute version is now available, along with arrangements for rights, from Brooklyn Publishers.

Selected Works

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Full-Length Plays

Running On Glass ... A woman scholar and her running buddy imagine a pop up museum of spirited women from sports history. A successor to How She Played the Game: 'inspirational' -- Billie Jean King// 'makes you feel like praising' -- Village Voice. See 'Full Length Plays.'

News & Quotes

The Match, Women, Theatre and the Holocaust, Remember the Women Institute, JCC Manhattan, April 20, 2023**The Accounting Department, TAFE (Theatre Arts For Everyone). York, PA, March 3-5, 2023**~First Online Talk with Cindy Cooper**~I Was a Stranger Too, The Neighborhood House (Wellstone Center), St Paul, MN, January 26-29 2023**Talk, Limmud, UK, December 2022**The Prize (about Dr. Patricia Bath), We [HEART] Women Doctors, Nov.12, 2 pm, Episcopal Actors Guild**Panel, Breaking Glass, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, CN, Nov 4 2022; Interview, Lori Raupe, WinWinWomen.TV, Oct 31, 2022**All Databases Are Incomplete, Rutgers University, Remember the Women Institute, Oct 27, 2022; Interview by Theatre Revolution**Stones of Tiananmen, Rehearsal for the Truth Festival, Vaclav Havel Literary Foundation, Bohemian National Hall, NYC, June 20, 2022**I Was A Stranger Too, Jewish Plays Project, Finalist Selection: Free Audio Selection and Vote**I Was A Stranger Too, Women, Theatre and the Holocaust VI, Remember the Women Institute, with JCC Manhattan, online, April 26 2022**All Databases Are Incomplete, Intimate Partner Violence, Art, Education and Advocacy, Roosevelt House, Remember the Women Institute, April 11, 2022, NYC**The Brief (about Ruth Bader Ginsburg), StatueFest at College, Multicultural Center, SUNY Purchase, March 25, 2022**The Alchemy of Zoom, Literary Discourse Society, Online Feb 13 2022**I Was a Stranger Too, Finalist, Trish Vradenburg Jewish Play Prize, Theatre J**All Databases Are Incomplete, Moment Gallery, 'She's Gone'**The Prize, White Mouse Productions, Orlando FL**Better Theatre and a Better World, Find Your Light Podcast**The Prize (about Dr. Patricia E. Bath), Queens STEM Girls, 2021**At the Train Station in Munich, pub in 'She Persisted,' 10-Min Plays, Applause Books**StatueFest On Stage, co-producer, Sept-Oct, NYC, The Brief: Ruth Bader Ginsburg**Five Short Plays by Cindy Cooper, Julia's Reading Room, League of Professional Theatre Women, Sept 17 2021**Here Lived (Hier wohnte), Cntr for Family Holocaust Research**Strange Light, publ Next Stage Press**The Brief (on Ruth Bader Ginsburg), StatueFest Four**I Was A Stranger Too, Play Readings With Friends, May 2021, Virtual**StatueFest: Put A Woman On A Pedestal, co-producer, Mar-June 2021**'Here Lived, Hier Wohnte,' Women, Theater, the Holocaust, 2021, Remember the Women Institute, Virtual**All Databases Are Incomplete, April 2021, Pace Justice Center, Virtual**The Accounting Department, Wine Box Players, Mar 2021**Sentences and Words, The Accounting Department and Password, Western Connecticut State University, Dec 2020 ** All Databases Are Incomplete, Artists and Writers Respond to Domestic Violence, Dec 1, 2020, performed by Lisa Pelikan, Remember the Women Institute ** Writers Reading, 3G Theater, SF** Speaker View, B Street Theatre New Play Brunch, Sacramento, July **Password, a Zoom play, New Circle Theatre Co**Spyglass on AirPlay**Determined Women Podcast**Speaker View, New Circle Theatre Co**I Was A Stranger Too, (excerpt) Theatre Unbound, MN Mar-Apr (postponed)**Over the Line, Honor Roll Playwrights, Theater for the New City, NY, Mar (postponed)**Sentences and Words, Theatre Tuscaloosa, AL Mar 2020**Spyglass, New Circle Theatre Co., Reading, Jan 6 2020**Isabella Goodwin in 10x10, East Broadway Theatre Co. NYC**Book Launch: Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom, Bluestockings Books**Essay, What We Bring Forth, Emerge Gallery, Shout Out Saugerties**Book Talk- No Person Above the Law, Delhi NY**New York State Summer School of the Arts -- Playwriting**Entrepreneur, New Circle Theatre Co. at The Chain Theatre, NYC, June**Bend the Arc, Stonewall Event, Michael Powell Cntr NYC**Running On Glass, EgoActus Theatre, NYC, Torn Page**The Box, Remember the Women Institute NYC**Heaven Scent, New Circle Theatre Co, Michael Warren Powell Cntr, NYC**Casa, 29th Street Rep**Running On Glass, Venus Theatre Laurel, MD**Living Newspaper Women's Edition, Rising Sun Governor's Isl. w/ Ego Actus **Running on Glass, SUNY Delhi, NYSSSA**Running on Glass, Dramatists Foundation & Michael Warren Powell Cntr, NYC**Works of Art, Firehall Theatre, Niagara Falls, Canada**The Spoken and the Unspoken and A Congolese Refugee, Ronald Feldman Gallery NYC**Babe, RoverWerks, Plano, TX**Untold Stories of Jewish Women: At The Train Station in Munich; Gretel Bergmann; The Spoken and the Unspoken, Museum of Jewish Heritage, NYC ** The Accounting Department, Feisty Women Festival, NYC **Bend the Arc, The UNaugeration, NYC** At the Train Station in Munich, Remember the Women Institute, Center for Jewish History, NYC **Over the Line, 29th St Playwrights, Future Is Female**Fool Me Once, MultiStages, NYC **Morning in America: Primary Stages **Sentences and Words, Wellsboro PA ** Louis Braille: The World At Your Fingertips, Hangar Theatre, NY**Stones of Tiananmen, Urban Stages, NYC, dir, Keira Loughran

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Theatre Publications

THEATRE PUBLICATIONS by Cynthia L. Cooper (Cindy Cooper)
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At The Train Station in Munich

In 'She Persisted' Ten Minute Plays by Women Over Forty

A German Jewish woman working as resistance fighter in the underground 'coaches' her older self while awaiting a train to freedom from Nazi soldiers. Published in'She Persisted: Ten Minute Plays by Women Over Forty,' by Applause Books/Rowman and Littlefield.

SILENCE NOT, A Love Story

Silence Not, A Love Story
Gihon River Press

SILENCE NOT, A Love Story
Gihon River Press: 'Best Historical Fiction, Books and Authors; Finalist, Best Book in Drama/Performing Arts by ForeWard Magazine. Large print; also online orders.

SPECIAL:Print copies for $5 plus shipping of $2.50 by emailing plays@cyncooperwriter.net

Read ForeWord Review

See Full Length Plays for more information.
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STRANGE LIGHT

Strange Light
Next Stage Press

STRANGE LIGHT
Next Stage Press

A woman lawyer, her gay partner, and a mother struggling with Alzheimer's, and a race to find love.

"A poem of a play."

See Full Length Plays for more information
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LOUIS BRAILLE: THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS

Dramatic Publishing
Text, score, tape

LOUIS BRAILLE: THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
Cynthia L. Cooper & Joel Vig, book; Jane Smulyan, lyrics; Annie Lebeaux, music
Award-Winning
Script, Score, Rehearsal CD and Performance Arrangements, DRAMATIC PUBLISHING
Piano Score
Rehearsal CD (with voices)
See Plays for Young Audiences for more information.
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The New Press

FRONT LINES: Political Plays by American Women, from The New Press, edited by Alexis Greene and Shirley Lauro. 'Hot button' plays, including 'Words of Choice.'
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Sentences and Words in The Women's Project
Smith and Kraus

Independent Press

Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom, Editor

Writer: Rhymes with Ryan; Tru Luv

Paperback: Amazon

Print ISBN 9781078109413

E book: Amazon, Google Play, Barnes and Noble

E book ISBN 9781912924028

Gretel Bergmann in Crossing Boundaries
Human Kinetics Books
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How She Played the Game [45 min version] in Women Heroes
Applause Books
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'How She Played the Game' at Randolph Macon College.
Order-Brooklyn Publishers,Info Below.(Photo, Ken Parks)

How She Played the Game
Brooklyn Publishers

HOW SHE PLAYED THE GAME

Complete, 65 minute version, with performance royalty purchase possible.

CONTACT: BROOKLYN PUBLISHERS

See here for more onsite information.

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Saving Grace in Elvis Monologues
Heinemann
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Babe and Swinging Marilyns in Baseball Monolgues
Heinemann
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The Note from Sisters of Sisters in Audition Monologs for Students Actors II
Meriwether Press
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Eleonora Randolph Sears and Althea Gibson in Great Monologues from the Women's Project
Smith and Kraus
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Equity from Reachin' in Hit the Nerve
Henry Holt
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Gretel Bergmann in More Golden Apples
Papier-Mache Press
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How She Played the Game in Language and Literature Arts

EMC/Paradigm
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