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Ruth Margraff's play HARLEQUIN, commissioned by a Playwrights' Center McKnight award, was read at Victory Gardens (Chicago) and the New Group (New York). Her martial arts opera DRAGON VS. EAGLE marks her sixth collaboration with composer Fred Ho for the Apollo and Brooklyn Academy of Music, commissioned by her fourth Rockefeller award. She has toured with her Café Antarsia Ensemble to festivals and venues throughout the U.K., Canada, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia, Croatia, and Egypt. Ruth was delegated to represent the U.S. State Department on a Peaceworks Cultural envoy to Calcutta, India, and received a Fulbright "All Disciplines Award: New Opera" to Greece. She is an alumna of New Dramatists, an active member of LPTW and Theater Without Borders/Brandeis Coexistence International, Associate Professor of playwriting at the Art Institute of Chicago, and represented by Susan Schulman. http://www.ruthmargraff.com/
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