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Margaret Baldwin
Lecturer and Interim Coordinator of General Education for Theatre and Performance Studies
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Margaret Baldwin has produced her plays, solo, and ensemble theatre works throughout the United States. Her newest plays include Tom Thumb the Great, commissioned by Georgia Shakespeare for their 2008 Family Classics Series, and Night Blooms, developed at the 2007 New South Festival at the Horizon Theatre Company in Atlanta. Her recent works, You Always Go Home, Monkey King, and Roland’s Song: A War Story were commissioned and produced by the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies at Kennesaw State University. You Always Go Home, based on oral histories of Kenyans living in the Atlanta area, was featured at the International Conference on the Role of the Diaspora on Kenya’s Development at KSU in March 2006. Monkey King, a contemporary adaptation of Wu Cheng-en’s 16th Century folk novel Journey to the West, traveled to China where it was produced for the 60th Anniversary Festival of the Shanghai Theatre Academy, funded in part by the Coca-Cola Foundation.
Margaret received a National AT&T Onstage Award for the world premier of her play Her Little House at Horizon Theatre Company, named one of the Best New Plays of 2004 by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. That same year, the AJC named Margaret as one of Atlanta’s “Five Faces to Watch.” Other plays include Alice Through the Wonderglass, Sunday Morning 2 Men Cooking, Anatomy, and More Precious than Gold (1996) commissioned as part of the American Festival Theatre Project and funded in part by the NEA. Her solo works, The Wet Nurse Sings and The Deepest Part of the Creek (2003), were published in Monologues for Women edited by the Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. Margaret has an MFA from the Iowa Playwrights Workshop. She is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild and a National Core Member of the Playwrights’ Center.