Maryrose Wood
http://www.maryrosewood.com
Maryrose Wood's somewhat unconventional road to becoming a
novelist involved a decade spent acting, directing and doing
improv comedy, and then another long stint as a playwright,
librettist and screenwriter. But let us begin at the beginning.
Maryrose grew up on Long Island, moved to New York City at
age 17 to study acting at NYU, then dropped out of college
to be in the chorus of a Broadway musical—which
flopped. Lean and action-packed years of acting, directing,
and making drunk people laugh at comedy clubs followed.
Becoming a writer seemed an astonishingly easy way out of
this Dickensian existence, and not a moment too soon.
Accolades have occasionally been heaped upon Maryrose's
writing for the theatre. She was the first recipient of the
Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award, and is a three-time
recipient of the Richard Rodgers Award for New Musicals,
which is administered by the American Academy of Arts and
Letters.
Maryrose did eventually graduate from NYU's Gallatin School.
She lives with her two children. Their mischievous antics
prevent her from getting an excessive amount of work done,
thus keeping her life hilariously in balance. They live in
New York, with a small, feisty, red-headed dog.
In her spare time, Maryrose is a highly enthusiastic but
only sporadically successful gardener. This year she intends
to plant foxgloves and other plants known to attract faeries.
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What I Wore to Save the World
December 1, 2009
Third in the fabulous series that started with Why I
Let My Hair Grow Out.
It's not just the end of high school...
Senior year's coming up fast and Morgan still has no Read more...
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How I Found the Perfect Dress
May 6, 2008
Now that she's back home in her dullsville Connecticut life,
Morgan finds it hard to remember what being a half-goddess
even felt like. Her parents are squabbling, her sister Tammy
is trying to Read more...
Why I Let My Hair Grow Out
March 6, 2007
Being sent to your room is one thing. But being sent to
another country?
Morgan's boyfriend dumped her on the last day of
school—it seemed the only thing to do was to hack Read more...
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