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 and Happenings

The Match, Banned Books and Burned Books, Zoom, Remember the Women Institute, Online, Nov. 12, 2023**The Match, Equity Library Theater NYC, Aug. 12, 2023**Through the Sands of Time, Montauk Library, Aug 2**Selections, Resource Guide: Women, Theater and the Holocaust, Remember the Women Institute**The Match, Women, Theatre and the Holocaust, Remember the Women Institute, April 20, 2023, Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan**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 by Cynthia L. Cooper (Cindy Cooper)
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She Persisted, Applause Books: 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

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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

LOUIS BRAILLE: The World At Your Fingertips, Dramatic Publishing

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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FRONT LINES: Political Plays by American Women; Words of Choice, editor, writer

The New Press; Words of Choice

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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The Women's Project and Productions, Short Plays: Sentences and Words

Sentences and Words in The Women's Project
Smith and Kraus

Short Plays on Reproductive Freedom: Editor; Writer: True Luv, Rhymes With Ryan

Choice Theater 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

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Women, Theater, and the Holocaust

Bibliography, Women, Theater, and the Holocaust, 5th Edition
Includies eight plays by Cynthia L. Cooper, and one essay.

Gretel Bergmann in Crossing Boundaries

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

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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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