Marilyn Campbell

Marilyn Campbell is a published playwright, award-winning actress, independent producer, co-founder (with Michael Halberstam) of the Writers' Theatre in Glencoe, Ill., and board member and artistic associate of the 16th Street Theater in Berwyn, Ill. Her co-adaptation with Curt Columbus of Crime and Punishment garnered a 2003 Chicago Joseph Jefferson Award, a 2009 L.A. Backstage Garland Award and a 2009 nomination from the L.A. Drama Critics Circle for Best New Adaptation. Crime and Punishment has been performed in more than 40 theaters across the United States including Writers' Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Festival (Top Pick at the 2005 Harriett Lake Festival of New Plays), Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, 59E59th Street Theater, Berkeley Repertory, Indiana Repertory, Intiman Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Round House Theatre, Actors Co-op, PICT, Actors Theater of Louisville, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and, in 2011, Hawaii Repertory, Chester Theatre Company, American Players Theatre and Center Stage (directed by Jason Loweth). Campbell's other full-length plays include the award-winning My Own Stranger, a co-adaptation based on the writings of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Anne Sexton; The Beats, based on the writings of the 1950's beat poets, which Hedy Weiss of the Chicago Sun-Times called "rousing, thought-provoking, and verbally brilliant"; and The Gospel According to Mark Twain, which premiered at the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland. Campbell is currently writing a new play, commissioned by Writers' Theatre and based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, entitled The Monster's Lullaby. In addition to playwriting, Campbell is the host of a radio show called "The Feminist Lens" which airs on WFMT Chicago. She is a member of Actors Equity Association and The Dramatist Guild of America.