Marisha Chamberlain

Marisha Chamberlain is a multi-genre writer. Her debut novel, THE ROSE VARIATIONS, was published by Soho Press, garnered rave reviews, and will be reissued in 2018. Her stage play, SCHEHERAZADE, won the Dramatists Guild/CBS National Award, and in her screenplay version, played on public television across the country, and at the British Film Festival in the category of Best of American Public Television. Other plays of hers have been staged all over the world and are available through Playscripts, Inc. Her adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN was premiered by The Childrens' Theater of Minneapolis, was subsequently produced by the Stratford Festival Theater in addition to productions in Australia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, South Korea, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. THE WORLD BELOVED: A BLUEGRASS MASS, her collaboration with composer Carol Barnett, published by Boosey & Hawkes, and out on CD on the Clarion label, was performed at Carnegie Hall in 2013 and 2014. Their latest collaboration, MORTALS & ANGELS: A BLUEGRASS TE DEUM, premiered at Carnegie Hall in January of 2016, has been released on CD and will be published by Boosey & Hawkes in 2018.

Chamberlain lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, in an artist lofts community in an old brewery. Besides reading and writing, she loves to kayak, bicycle, grow herbs in the community straw bale garden, and follow her son's progress as lead singer in his rock band. She is currently at work on a new novel manuscript, a family saga.