Elizabeth Primamore

Elizabeth Primamore

Elizabeth Primamore is an author and playwright. Her short stories are published in Sweet Tree Review (Fall, 2019), The Opiate (Spring, 2020), and Hawaii Review (Spring, 2020). Her latest book is titled Shady Women: Three Short Plays (Upper Hand Press, 2018). She is the recipient of the Bernard and Shirley Handel Playwriting Award and was a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference....
Elizabeth Primamore is an author and playwright. Her short stories are published in Sweet Tree Review (Fall, 2019), The Opiate (Spring, 2020), and Hawaii Review (Spring, 2020). Her latest book is titled Shady Women: Three Short Plays (Upper Hand Press, 2018). She is the recipient of the Bernard and Shirley Handel Playwriting Award and was a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her personal essays have been published in the anthologies From A to LGBTQ (650 Press, 2016) and Pain and Memory (2009). Primamore is a fellow at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. She holds a PhD from the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Plays

  • The Professor and Michael Field by Elizabeth Primamore
    Cast: 
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    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic + 1 more
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    Keyword: Transgender, forbidden Lesbian love
    Genre: biography, docudrama/historic, drama
    Keyword: Transgender, forbidden Lesbian love
    In 1965, Professor Phillip Messiter struggles against the constrictions of his original gender as he battles to draw attention to Michael Field, a 19th century British poet with a secret of his (or should I say her) own. Field is the pseudonym for Katherine Bradley and her niece Edith Cooper – who are lovers as well as collaborators.

    The play melds two timelines and Michael Field is based on a true story.

  • Undone by Elizabeth Primamore
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Murder-mystery, love + 4 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, mystery/thriller
    Keyword: Murder-mystery, love, grief, loss, gay, Lesbian
    UNDONE tells the story of Professor Susan Ponti, whose partner Diana has died of cancer. Diana’s doctor has been murdered, and Susan is a suspect. But is she guilty? NYPD Detective Victoria “Vic” Zingarra thinks so, and does her best to pin the crime on Susan. A murder investigation pushes both Susan and Vic to the brink of psychological breakdown before the truth is finally revealed. UNDONE is a play about...
    UNDONE tells the story of Professor Susan Ponti, whose partner Diana has died of cancer. Diana’s doctor has been murdered, and Susan is a suspect. But is she guilty? NYPD Detective Victoria “Vic” Zingarra thinks so, and does her best to pin the crime on Susan. A murder investigation pushes both Susan and Vic to the brink of psychological breakdown before the truth is finally revealed. UNDONE is a play about loss and grief, and the guilt of surviving.