Barbara Kingsley

Barbara Kingsley

Barbara Kingsley is a New York resident whose playwriting credits include Under This Roof, I Am Proof of Me – A final Visit with Emily Dickinson, and Living In The Blue Zone (winner of the 9Thirty Theatre Co. 2009 one-act playwriting competition and produced in the 2010 A Fresh Assortment/Earth Week, One-Act Festival). Barbara is also co-author of two screenplays: Henry Wind and Flourtown (2008 Official...
Barbara Kingsley is a New York resident whose playwriting credits include Under This Roof, I Am Proof of Me – A final Visit with Emily Dickinson, and Living In The Blue Zone (winner of the 9Thirty Theatre Co. 2009 one-act playwriting competition and produced in the 2010 A Fresh Assortment/Earth Week, One-Act Festival). Barbara is also co-author of two screenplays: Henry Wind and Flourtown (2008 Official Selection: Palms Springs Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, SSHF Film Festival and Flickerfest Intl. Film Festival).
Writing awards include Eugene O’Neill NPC 216 Semifinalist,
MSAB/National Endowment For The Arts - Artist Initiative Grant, and MRAC - Next Step Grant. She is a member of The 72nd St Playwrights Collective, The Playwrights’ Center (MN) and Dramatists Guild (NY). Barbara also served as an adjunct faculty member in the University of Minnesota Dept. of Theatre and Dance, from 1998 – 2013.

Plays

  • UNDER THIS ROOF by Barbara Kingsley
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Cleveland, Post WWII recovery + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, period
    Keyword: Cleveland, Post WWII recovery, american race relations
    “What if …” in 1948, in the Negro neighborhood of Central, Cleveland, Mamie Warren finds herself in need of household help after her husband, Raymond’s roofing accident? And “What if …” on recommendation of a friend Mamie agrees to hire a down-on-her-luck girl named Bessie for the job? And “What if …” when the “girl” arrives she is inexperienced, older than they are, White, and with problems of her own?...
    “What if …” in 1948, in the Negro neighborhood of Central, Cleveland, Mamie Warren finds herself in need of household help after her husband, Raymond’s roofing accident? And “What if …” on recommendation of a friend Mamie agrees to hire a down-on-her-luck girl named Bessie for the job? And “What if …” when the “girl” arrives she is inexperienced, older than they are, White, and with problems of her own?

    Set against the back-drop of post WW II recovery, this four character,
    two-act play examines the question of race, gender, age, power, family,
    and love on an ever-shifting axis - with often unexpected results, both
    comic and painful.