Беджоян Барбара
Bejoian Barbara
Беджоян Барбара
Barbara Bejoian
Barbara Bejoian grew up in Watertown, Massachusetts, and was educated at Wheaton College, Radcliffe College, and Brown University where she earned an M.F.A. in playwriting in 1984. The author of ten plays, she is best known for her three Armenian plays, including Dance Mama, Dance, commissioned by Brown University’s Rites and Reasons Theatre and first produced in 1984. Her plays have appeared in Boston, Providence, New York, Fort Lauderdale, London, Edinburgh, and Yerevan. She taught English and playwriting at Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island College, American University in Armenia, Erevan State University, Vanadzor Teaching College, and New York University. Dance Mama, Dance was published in the anthology Contemporary Armenian American Drama in 2004, the year Barbara Bejoian died at the age of 49.
PLAYS
DANCE MAMA, DANCE
EAGLES WITHOUT WINGS
HORSES WITHOUT LEGS
PUBLICATIONS
DANCE MAMA, DANCE in CONTEMPORARY ARMENIAN AMERICAN DRAMA, Columbia University Press, 2004.
AWARDS
-National Endowment for the Arts Award (10-time winner)
-Brown University Creative Writing Award, 1983
-Critics Choice Award Winner, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 1994
-Fulbright Scholar, 1995
-Brown University Presidential Fellowship, 1997
-Rhode Island Feminist Theater Premier Award
-Massachusetts Artist Foundation Finalist Award
