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词条 Cusi Cram
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  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Production history 

  3. Personal life

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox person
| name = Cusi Cram
| image = Cusi Cram, Lilly Awards, June 2015.PNG
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|9|22}}
| birth_place = Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
| occupation = Playwright, screenwriter, actress, model
| education = Brown University (BA)
Juilliard School (GrDip)
| spouse = Peter Hirsch
| parents = Lady Jeanne Campbell
| relatives = Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll (maternal grandfather)
Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook (great-grandfather)
| years_active = 1980–present
| residence = Greenwich Village, New York
}}Cusi Cram (born September 22, 1967) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actress, model, director, educator, and advocate for women in the arts.[1] After signing with Wilhelmina Models at 13-years-old, Cram went on to originate the role of Cassie Callison on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live. Following her graduation from Brown University, Cram attended the [https://www.juilliard.edu/drama/playwriting Lila Acheson American Playwrights Program at Juilliard.][1] She focused on play-writing and screenwriting, namely for the series Arthur, The Octonauts, and The Big C. She also wrote and directed a short film Wild & Precious through a fellowship through the prestigious Directing Workshop for Women at the American Film Institute. Her film played at over 20 festivals nationwide and was the recipient of the Adrienne Shelly and Nancy Mallone awards.[2] Her plays have been produced in by: Primary Stages, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Denver Center, Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts, The Williamstown Theater Festival, South Coast Repertory, Barrington Stage, The Atlantic Theater Company, New Georges, and on numerous stages large and small all over the country.[1] She had her off-Broadway debut at 59E59 Theaters in 2009 with her play A Lifetime Burning. She has taught at ESPA at Primary Stages, Columbia University, Fordham University and is currently an Assistant Arts Professor in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.[1] Cram lives with her husband, Peter Hirsch, a seven-time Emmy winning writer who has developed and written for many television programs for younger audiences.[3]

Early life

Cusi Cram was born in Manhattan, New York City,[4] on September 22, 1967,[5] to Lady Jeanne Campbell, daughter of Ian Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll, and granddaughter of Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook; Lady Jeanne was married at the time to John Cram III, a descendant of railroad developer Jay Gould.[4] Her biological father, however, was Bolivian[6] and worked at the United Nations.[6][7] She identifies as Latina and has written extensively about her Latino roots in her plays.[8][9][10][11]

Cram's first foray into the world of theater came at age six when she played the role of Moth in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival.[12] Campbell had previously been married to Norman Mailer, with whom she remained friends after their divorce.[4] Mailer's later wife Norris Church, a former actress and model, suggested that Cram try out modelling.[4] At age 13, she did, becoming the youngest model ever to sign with Wilhelmina Models, Church's former agency.[4] At the time, Cram attended the Chapin School in Manhattan.[4] Of her modeling days she has said, "And at the time—and I think times have changed a lot—[the look] was very blonde and blue eyed, so I was considered very, very ethnic looking ..."[7]

Career

While working with Wilhemina, Cram modeled for a variety of publications including Interview, Seventeen, Brides, and Young Miss.[4] While still 13, she joined the cast of the soap opera One Life to Live on ABC.[4] She originated the role of Cassie Callison,[13] a job that required her to leave the Chapin School for the Professional Children's School which allowed her time to both study and participate in filming.[4] She eventually transitioned from acting to playwriting during her twenties, graduated from Brown University in 1990, and landed a job writing for the animated PBS show Arthur.[14][15]

Cram worked in regional theaters in Massachusetts, California, and Colorado, and had some of her work produced Off-Off-Broadway.[16] Her work on Arthur inspired her 2009 play Dusty and the Big Bad World.[17] The Arthur spinoff Postcards from Buster was subject to a controversy that eventually involved United States Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings after an episode depicted a Vermont family with two lesbian mothers.[17] Dusty, which premiered at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, was a comic retelling of the controversy.[17] Cram's Off-Broadway debut also came in 2009 when her play A Lifetime Burning, based on the experiences of author Margaret Seltzer and the discovery of her partially fictitious memoir Love and Consequences, was produced at 59E59 Theaters by Primary Stages.[16]

Aside from Arthur, Cram has also written for the Cbeebies children's television series The Octonauts,[18] and contributed two episodes to the Showtime comedy-drama The Big C.[19] As of January 2014, she teaches playwriting as part of the joint Fordham University – Primary Stages Master of Fine Arts program.[20]

Production history

Title Date premiered TheaterNotes Source(s)
Landlocked1999|11|11}} Miranda Theatre [21]
The End of It All2000|6|15}} South Coast Repertory Part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival [22]
Normal2003|3|1}} Actors Theatre of Louisville One-act play, anthologized in Trepidation Nation [23]
Corduroy2004|1|11}} Theatreworks USA Musical, with book by Cram and music by Scott Davenport Richards

Based on the children's book of the same name by Don Freeman

 [24]
Predator2004|6|29}} Echo Theater Company One-act play [25]
Fuente2005|7|9}} Barrington Stage Recipient of the 2004 Herrick Theater Foundation New Play Prize

Previewed beginning June 30

 [26][27]
All the Bad Things2006|2|15}} The Public Theater Produced by LAByrinth Theater Company [28]
Lucy and the Conquest2006|7|12}} Williamstown Theatre Festival [29]
Dusty and the Big Bad World2009|1|29}} Denver Center Theater [17]
A Lifetime Burning2009|8|11}} 59E59 Theaters Produced by Primary Stages [30]
Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation2011|11|11}} Lewis Center for the Arts Based on Lope de Vega's Fuenteovejuna [31]
Radiance2012|11|16}} Bank Street Theater One-act play

Produced by LAByrinth Theater Company

 [32]

Additionally, Cram's one-act West of Stupid was anthologized in The Best American Short Plays 2000-2001.[33] She has also performed two one-woman shows, Bolivia and Euripidames, at New Georges in New York City.[33]

Personal life

Cram lives with her husband, Peter Hirsch, also a writer on Arthur, in Greenwich Village, New York.[17][33]

References

1. ^1 2 3 {{Cite news|url=https://tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/dramatic-writing/595807888|title=Cusi Cram|access-date=2018-03-06}}
2. ^{{Cite news|url=http://adrienneshellyfoundation.org/cusi-cram/|title=Cusi Cram - Adrienne Shelly Foundation|last=http://adrienneshellyfoundation.org|work=Adrienne Shelly Foundation|access-date=2018-03-06|language=en-US}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386535/|title=Peter K. Hirsch|website=IMDb|access-date=2018-03-06}}
4. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{cite news|last=Small|first=Michael|title=At 13, Cusi Cram Doesn't Kid Around; Already a Cover Girl, Now She's Scrubbing Up for the Soaps|url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20079895,00.html|accessdate=December 5, 2013|newspaper=People|date=August 3, 1981}}
5. ^{{cite news|title=Cusi Cram's fictional siblings spar, jab amid suspicions, sex|url=http://thevillager.com/villager_327/cusicrams.html|date=August 5–11, 2009|last=Tallmer|first=Jerry|newspaper=The Villager|accessdate=February 16, 2014}}
6. ^1 http://www.playbill.com/article/cusi-crams-lifetime-of-learning-com-163542
7. ^1 http://theintervalny.com/interviews/2014/08/an-interview-with-cusi-cram/
8. ^{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/cusicram?lang=en|title=Cusi Cram (@cusicram) {{!}} Twitter|website=twitter.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-06}}
9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/5223/lucy-and-the-conquest|title=Lucy and the Conquest|website=www.samuelfrench.com|access-date=2018-03-06}}
10. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.samuelfrench.com/p/5606/fuente|title=Fuente|website=www.samuelfrench.com|access-date=2018-03-06}}
11. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317280453|title=Taylor & Francis Group|website=www.taylorfrancis.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-06}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=Up Close: Radiance Playwright Cusi Cram|url=http://labtheater.org/2012/08/up-close-radiance-playwright-cusi-cram/|work=Inside Labyrinth|publisher=LAByrinth Theater Company|accessdate=December 14, 2013|date=August 31, 2012}}
13. ^{{cite book|last=Terrace|first=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of Television Series, Pilots and Specials 1974-1984|year=1985|publisher=New York Zoetrope|location=New York City|isbn=0918432618|page=308}}
14. ^{{cite news|authorlink1=Robert Simonson|last=Simonson|first=Robert|title=Cusi Cram's Lifetime of Learning|url=http://www.playbill.com/features/article/131946-Cusi-Crams-Lifetime-of-Learning|accessdate=December 12, 2013|newspaper=Playbill|date=August 14, 2009}}
15. ^{{cite news|last=Goodman|first=Lawrence|title=Girl Interrupted|url=http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2366/32/|accessdate=January 13, 2014|newspaper=The Brown Alumni Magazine|date=September–October 2009}}
16. ^1 {{cite news|last=Cote|first=David|title=Cusi Cram on A Lifetime Burning|url=http://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/cusi-cram-on-a-lifetime-burning|accessdate=December 14, 2013|newspaper=Time Out New York|date=July 21, 2009}}
17. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news|last=Jones|first=Kenneth|title=Controversial PBS Cartoon Is Focus of Denver World Premiere, Dusty|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/125718-Controversial-PBS-Cartoon-Is-Focus-of-Denver-World-Premiere-Dusty|accessdate=December 19, 2013|newspaper=Playbill|date=January 29, 2009}}
18. ^{{cite web|title=Octonauts And The Amazon Adventure|url=http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/149694-Octonauts_And_The_Amazon_Adventure.html|publisher=Big Cartoon DataBase|accessdate=January 13, 2014|year=2013}}
19. ^{{cite web|title=Cusi Cram|url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrities/55624099/cusi-cram|publisher=Hollywood.com|accessdate=January 13, 2014}}
20. ^{{cite web|title=Cusi Cram|url=http://www.primarystages.org/cusi-cram|work=Faculty|publisher=Primary Stages|accessdate=January 13, 2014}}
21. ^{{cite news|last=McBride|first=Murdoch|title=Miranda Theatre Runs Cusi Cram's Comedy, Landlocked, Thru Dec. 4|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/48978-Miranda-Theatre-Runs-Cusi-Crams-Comedy-Landlocked-Thru-Dec-4|accessdate=January 6, 2014|newspaper=Playbill|date=November 15, 1999}}
22. ^{{cite news|title=Best Bets Thursday 6/15|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/15/entertainment/ca-40994|accessdate=January 6, 2014|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 15, 2000}}
23. ^{{cite web|title=Normal by Cusi Cram|url=http://www.playscripts.com/play/461|publisher=Playscripts, Inc.|accessdate=January 10, 2014|year=2014}}
24. ^{{cite news|last=Rawson|first=Christopher|title=Stage Review: 'Corduroy' is short and sweet|url=http://old.post-gazette.com/ae/20040112corduroy0112p4.asp|accessdate=January 10, 2014|newspaper=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette|date=January 12, 2004}}
25. ^{{cite news|last=Schreiber|first=Brad|title=The Echo One Acts: 2004, Evening A|url=http://www.backstage.com/news/the-echo-one-acts-2004-evening-a/|accessdate=January 10, 2014|newspaper=Backstage|date=June 30, 2004}}
26. ^{{cite web|last=Sommer|first=Elyse|title=Fuente|url=http://www.curtainup.com/fuente.html|work=Berkshires Review|publisher=CurtainUp|accessdate=January 6, 2014|year=2005}}
27. ^{{cite web|title=Cusi Cram|url=http://www.mcctheater.org/literary/playwrightbios.html#Cram|work=Literary|publisher=MCC Theater|accessdate=January 10, 2014}}
28. ^{{cite news|title=LAB's All the Bad Things Begins Performances Tomorrow|url=http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/LABs-All-the-Bad-Things-Begins-Performances-Tomorrow-20060214|accessdate=January 5, 2013|newspaper=Broadway World|date=February 14, 2006|author=BWW News Desk}}
29. ^{{cite web|last=Sommer|first=Elyse|title=Lucy and the Conquest|url=http://www.curtainup.com/lucyandtheconquest.html|work=Berkshires Review|publisher=CurtainUp|accessdate=December 19, 2013|year=2006}}
30. ^{{cite news|last=Isherwood|first=Charles|title=A Memoir So Compelling It Just Has to Be Phony|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/theater/reviews/12lifetime.html?_r=0|accessdate=January 6, 2014|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 12, 2009|authorlink=Charles Isherwood}}
31. ^{{cite web|title=The Program in Theater announces the Fall Show... Fuente Ovejuna: A Disloyal Adaptation|url=https://www.princeton.edu/arts/arts_at_princeton/theater/productions/fuente-ovejuna/overview/|work=Arts at Princeton|publisher=Princeton University|accessdate=January 6, 2014|year=2011}}
32. ^{{cite news|last=Thielman|first=Sam|title='Radiance' Drops a Bomb|url=http://www.backstage.com/review/ny-theater/off-broadway/radiance/|accessdate=January 10, 2014|newspaper=Backstage|date=November 20, 2012}}
33. ^1 2 {{cite book|title=The Best American Short Plays 2000-2001|year=2002|publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Books|location=New York City|isbn=1-55783-480-6|page=85|editor=Glubke, Mark}}

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