Anne Dimock

Anne Dimock

Anne Dimock is an author, librettist and playwright. Her plays and an opera have been produced in California, New York, Minnesota, and Hawaii. Her dramatic writing focuses on music-theatre, opera, comedies, adaptations, and always includes strong roles for women. Her plays include The Voyage Taking Shape, Roxanne(dot)com, Debbie Does Death and Woman Bakes American Flag Cake (The Matriot Act). She is currently...
Anne Dimock is an author, librettist and playwright. Her plays and an opera have been produced in California, New York, Minnesota, and Hawaii. Her dramatic writing focuses on music-theatre, opera, comedies, adaptations, and always includes strong roles for women. Her plays include The Voyage Taking Shape, Roxanne(dot)com, Debbie Does Death and Woman Bakes American Flag Cake (The Matriot Act). She is currently working on a play about the conflicting values within the realm of treatment for serious mental illness – the autonomy of an individual, and the dignity of their person and wellbeing

Anne Dimock is also a narrative writer working in fiction and nonfiction. Her novel, Against The Grain. which explores racial discrimination in the early 1960s in New Jersey, was published in 2022. Her nonfiction book, Humble Pie – Musings on What Lies Beneath the Crust, was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award. She has received awards, fellowships and residencies for her narrative writing. She is currently working on a science fiction novel about the exit of humans as a species.

She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York.

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Plays

  • The Voyage Taking Shape by Anne Dimock
    Cast: 
    3–10
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 3 more
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    Keyword: death, Tibetan bardos + 5 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, movement/physical, opera, verse
    Keyword: death, Tibetan bardos, the afterlife, dance, choral, operatic, transformation
    A young girl dies. As she moves from her past life to her next, she is escorted by a corps of beings who help her navigate each bardo – the intervals between lives. There are three death bardos: the painful bardo of dying, the luminous bardo of the reality of one’s mind, and the karmic bardo of becoming. . The first bardo is painful; the second is luminous; and the third is transformative.
  • Roxanne(dot)com by Anne Dimock
    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: unrequited love, feminism + 3 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, romantic comedy, zoom
    Keyword: unrequited love, feminism, lame technology, Cyrano de Bergerac, ageism
    Age and wit prevail over youth and beauty in a 21st century re-telling of Cyrano de Bergerac. Set as a modern-day office romance with all the trappings of texting, Tweeting, Skyping and webinars, Roxanne(dot)com explores what happens to Cyrano’s story when the genders are reversed.