Overview

"""Anna Nicole: Blonde Glory"" was in development for five years, with several successful readings in Maryland and New York City. It was guided to production by Director Shela Xoregos. The play opened at The Theater for The New City, (NYC) in October 2012. There was a marvelous opening night and then Sandy the Hurricane hit the city, filling the subways with water, and closing Broadway and off- Broadway for weeks. When calm was restored, our show was closed, since it was mounted as a three- week showcase production, and all actors were off to other jobs. Rose Solari portrayed ""Anna"" at The Bethesda Writers' Center in its initial reading. ""Cuffed Frays"" won a state-wide playwriting contest in West Virginia 2001, was produced for radio, but deserved a live viewing. The play was revived in a salon reading, 2022, with Phyllis Culham and Grace Cavalieri performing the roles of Chester and Jo. Also in 2022, to an invited audience, ""Sunshine Tiki Villas"" premiered with actors Nancy Buchenauer, Nancy Zimmerman, and Phyllis Culham, portraying Veronica, Coco, and Muriel. ""Harvest Kitchen"" was originally written as a short story in 1976. At that time the piece won the Pen Syndicated Fiction Award, judged by Grace Palin. After this, 'Harvest Kitchen"" was converted to a short two -character play. Although previously produced for radio, the ""live"" Reading was premiered by Janice Booth (Fran) and Jackie Graves (Margaret) in 2022, as part of the Annapolis Maryland Salon Series. These three short plays, which had such small lives, still endure and now are made permanent so their characters, who deserved more, can flourish a little longer. Additionally, Anna Nicole Smith, who was so devalued in her own life, is vindicated in this fiction and is therefore worth saving in print."

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"NYC READING, March 2011, ""ANNA NICOLE: BLONDE GLORY"" Audience Comments The play demonstrates truth with wit, candor, tragedy, drama, and humor - --Daniela Gioseffi, American Book Award winner. Grace Cavalieri's new play is a case of poetic justice. With heartbreaking sensitivity, the quintessential dumb blonde is transformed into a truly tragic figure. -- Maria Enrico, Translator/Professor: Spanish, Italian. Cavalieri proves herself to be a dramatist capable of biting wit and empathetic psychological understanding about the primary needs of the human psyche. --Allan B. Rubin, M.D. psychiatrist I never really connected the word ""profound"" with anything about Anna Nicole, but it was profound! The play was full of humor, and is a true representation of tragic comedy, and the struggle to find ""oneself."" -- Dai Si l Kim Gibson, filmmaker, author The play was a unique glimpse inside the heart of this person whom I previously would have dismissed as an opportunistic bimbo. She came alive and showed her pain. It will change how she is viewed forever. -- Tim Frasca, author, journalist"

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"Grace Cavalieri is Maryland's Tenth Poet Laureate. She writes poetry and plays and is a visual artist. She founded, and still produces, ""The Poet and The Poem"" for podcast and public radio, a series celebrating 46 years on-air and still thriving. Two hundred of her podcasts were launched to the moon with NASA's Lunar Codex -the first ever podcasts on the moon-landing poetry into ""The Ocean of Storms."" Grace was married to the late Naval Aviator/Sculptor Kenneth Flynn. They have four daughters, four grandchildren and a great grandson. She is an Academy of American Poets Fellow. Among her many books is a Memoir, Life Upon The Wicked Stage."

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