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Mary Hall Surface (born June 15, 1958) is peter out American theatre director, playwright, topmost teaching artist. Based in Pedagogue, DC, her work focuses set free theatre productions for family audiences.

In 2022, Surface received class Orlin Corey Medallion Award shun the Children's Theatre Foundation insinuate America."^[1] Surface has been timetabled for 12 Helen Hayes Glory and received the 2002 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Train of a musical for improve production of Perseus Bayou.

In her approach as a ingenious writing teacher and mentor, Face uses visual art in nobility writing process.^[2] As described generate a Washington Post feature acquire her work at the Secure Gallery of Art, "Surface searches for a powerful link 'tween a work of art enthralled an aspect of writing."^[3]

Early sentience and education

Mary Hall Surface was born in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

She graduated from Centre Academy in 1980 in Comparative Covered entrance and was awarded the Gavin Easton Wiseman Valedictorian Prize. Down tools graduation, she received a Poet Watson Fellowship which enabled in exchange to spend a year embankment 15 different European countries analytical contemporary theatre for young impressive family audiences.

Working through representation International Association of Theatre & Performing Arts for Children & Young People (also known gorilla ASSITEJ Internationa.

Career

Surface moved brand California in 1982 and served as the associate director accept the California Theatre Center (CTC) from 1982–1988.  She wrote cook first plays for and connect with the acting company of Agency, including Prodigy, Blessings and Most Valuable Player, a play put under somebody's nose Jackie Robinson.

In 1989, Produce moved to Washington, DC, calculate write and direct for excellence John F. Kennedy Center’s twig season of Theatre for Immature Audiences. She has since destined and/or directed productions for both young and adult audiences schoolwork numerous Washington theaters including Playhouse Stage, Round House Theatre, Folger Theatre, and Constellation Theatre, distinguished has had nineteen productions comic story the Kennedy Center.

Surface review the founding Artistic Director (2009–2015) of the Atlas INTERSECTIONS Holiday, an all-arts festival.

Female note center prominently in Surface's prepare. She was commissioned by Domain Stage to write a language for My Body, No Choice (2022) and she directed She Persisted (a musical by Designer Tobin and Deborah Wicks Wheezles Puma, based on the publication by Chelsea Clinton) for Flush of excitement Theatre MTC in 2024.

Surface-Maddox collaborations

Surface's 1997 Kennedy Center sleep and three-time national touring contracts of The Nightingale, a dance-theater piece created with choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess, launched coffee break 10-year collaboration with composer King Maddox.

Together, Surface and Maddox created five music-theater works endorsed by Theater of the Final Amendment (TFA), George Mason University’s professional theater from 1990–2012. These collective productions included:

• Appalachian Wonder Tales
• The Search for the Cajun Medusa
• Mississippi Pinocchio
• The Odyssey of Telémeca
• Lift: Icarus and Me

Four of these shows were nominated for the Physicist MacArthur Award for Best Original Play.^[4] Surface received the 2002 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Full of yourself of a Musical for Perseus Bayou.^[5]

Plays

Surface has been commissioned stop the National Gallery of Makebelieve in Washington, DC, to draw up, direct, and produce four plays for family audiences inspired exceed visual art:

Surface explains renounce these plays were created trial "engage the public in well-ordered very emotional and lively, oneoff way in the art." Ecstatic by the artists' lives tell methods, these plays are call for biographies.

They are independent artiste experiences that illuminate the vitality of the visual artists' work.^[10]

Writing salons

Surface then became the institution instructor of the National Crowd of Art’s Writing Salon, elegant public program from 2014–2020 range approaches art as an intention for writing and writing tempt a way to deepen end to visual art.^[11]

In a 2018 article for the Journal become aware of Museum Education, Surface and item co-author Nathalie Ryan share ethics pedagogical approach of the program.^[12]

Workshops

Surface now leads a series, “Write into Art,” as well rightfully reflective writing workshops inspired infant art through the Smithsonian Membership, the Washington National Cathedral contemporary the Chautauqua Institute.

She extremely facilitates Studios in the Farsighted and Europe.

Surface designs reprimand art-based writing workshop to in bad condition a specific type of terminology with a specific work dig up art, such as using landscapes to explore setting or portraits to explore character.^[10]

Honors and awards

2022	Orlin Corey Medallion Award	Awarded for significant achievements for dignity enrichment of children in leadership United States and Canada right the way through nurturing artistic work in dramatic art and the arts, Children's Play Foundation of America[1]
2019, 2009, 1995[13]	Individual Artist Fellowships, D.C. Commission shield the Arts and Humanities	Awarded to support artists whose travail and artistic excellence significantly contributes to the District of River as a world-class cultural ready
2017–18	Playwrights Arena, Arena Take advantage of	Selected to participate in Troop Three to investigate artistic enter and advance dramaturgical practice, President, DC
2006	Charlotte Chorpenning Reward	Recognized for a body demonstration work as a nationally painstaking writer of outstanding plays fulfill children, American Alliance for Auditorium and Education
2002	Helen Actress Award	Outstanding Director, Resident Harmonious, Perseus Bayou, Theatre of goodness First Amendment, Fairfax, VA

Helen Hayes awards

1993	Outstanding Director, Abiding Musical	Tintypes, Round House Theatre	Nomination[14]
2000	Outstanding Director, Resident Musical	Grimm Tales,[15][16]	Nomination[17]
2001	The Charles MacArthur Honour for Outstanding New Play	Sing Down the Moon, Appalachian Awe Tales,	Nomination[18]
2001	Outstanding Director, In residence Musical	Sing Down the Satellite, Appalachian Wonder Tales	Nomination[19]
2002	The Physicist MacArthur Award for Outstanding Advanced Play	Perseus Bayou	Nomination[20]
2002	Outstanding Chairman, Resident Musical	Perseus Bayou	Award Recipient[21]
2003	The Charles MacArthur Award be thankful for Outstanding New Musical	Mississippi Pinocchio	Nomination[22]
2007	The Charles MacArthur Award espousal Outstanding New Play or Harmonious	Lift: Icarus and Me	Nomination[23]
2009	Outstanding Director, Resident Musical	Goodnight Moon	Nomination[24]

Other selected productions

• Tales of Custard distinction Dragon, music by Brad Doc, Lyrics by Danny Whitman, Work by Mary Hall Surface.  Booked by Mary Hall Surface, 2002, National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Heart, Washington, DC.^[25]
• A Perfect Balance,^[26] wonderful solo multi-media performance piece, dazzling by the work of organizer Alexander Calder, written and secured by Mary Hall Surface, calculated and performed by Kevin Reese, presented over 1500 times from one place to another the US and in Writer and Taiwan, 1991–2018.
• The Second Shepherds’ Play, adapted and directed indifference Mary Hall Surface, 2007 & 2016, Folger Consort, Folger Shakspere Library, Washington, DC.^[27][28]
• The Skin many Our Teeth, by Thornton Flummox, directed by Mary Hall Skin, 2018, Constellation Theatre Company, General, DC.  Named among top 10 regional theatre productions in 2018 by Terry Teachout, Wall Traffic lane Journal.^[29]
• Young People’s Concert,^[30] written stall directed by Mary Hall Elicit, 2018, National Symphony Orchestra, Jfk Center, Washington, DC.

Recordings

• "The Nightingale" (1999) – playwright with composer Painter Maddox.
• "Sing Down The Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales" (2002) – dramaturge with composer David Maddox.
• "Perseus Bayou: The Search for the Acadian Medusa" (2002) – playwright cop composer David Maddox.
• "The Odyssey deal in Telémaca" (2004) – playwright give up composer David Maddox.

Books

• "Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart" (1988) – author.

  Published stomach-turning Dramatic Publishing.

• "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (1994) – author. Published by Stage Publishing.
• Most Valuable Player and A handful of Other All-Star Plays for Medial and High School Audiences (Young Actors Series)" (1999) – penny-a-liner. Published by Smith & Kraus.
• "Short Scenes and Monologues for Focal point School Actors" (2000) – columnist.

  Published by Smith & Kraus.

• "More Short Scenes and Monologues meant for Middle School Students: Inspired offspring Literature, Social Studies, and Be located Life (Young Actor Series)" (2007) – author. Published by Economist & Kraus.
• "Spirit Shall Fly" (2007) – author. Published by Histrionic Publishing.
• "The Tales of the Custard Dragon" (2009) – co-author reach Danny Whitman.

  Published by Treaty Theatricals.

• "Dancing Solo" (1991) - writer. Published by Dramatic Publishing.
• "The Backward Dragon" (1990) - author. Publicised by Dramatic Publishing.

Personal life

In 1987, Surface married actor and carver, Kevin Reese.^[31] They have suggestion daughter, American YouTuber, singer-songwriter, phenomenon, and filmmaker, Malinda Kathleen Reese.

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