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Ilsa Gilbert
Librettist
Biography
The Bundle Man marked Ilsa Gilbert's transition to playwright from poet, a calling she has continued to pursue brilliantly. In addition to a distinguished career in theatre, she is an accomplished librettist. The many plays that followed The Bundle Man were regularly produced at major Off Off-Broadway theaters during what are now being referred to as the golden years.
Her plays and operas have enjoyed numerous performances in the US and abroad, including Russia, Armenia, Costa Rica and Germany, and her cabaret musical Berlin Blues (music by Katrina Cameron) won first prize at the Quaigh Theatre Annual Marathon. Her operas are regularly premiered in New York by the Downtown Chamber and Opera Players, and her opera version of The Bundle Man (music by Marshall Coid, directed by Tom O'Horgan) premiered at Theater for the New City. Ilsa's poetry chapbook Survivors & Other New York Poems is published by Bard Press, while individual poems have won awards and appeared in prestigious journals, as well as the Anthology of Irish Poetry.
More than thirty-five composers have set her poems as art songs, chamber work and dance theatre. The Bundle Man was featured in OFF Stage: the East Village Fragments, the OBIE-winning outdoor festival presented by Peculiar Works Project. Ms. Gilbert is founder-director of the PEN Women's Literary Workshop.
There are no productions for this artist in the Season Schedule of Performances which currently only dates back to 1991.
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