Anne Marie Tonyan

Ann Marie Tonyan's play Strange Heart was written over the course of three years with the help of many playwrights, readers, actors and friends on two continents. Playwright and Barnard Professor and Alumna Julia Jordan has guided her project since its inception; she has been an inspiring teacher--constructive, honest and kind. Ann Marie lived for a year in Edinburgh, Scotland, where she had a blast with Edinburgh University's Bedlam Theater Company. She also worked with Irish playwright Nicola McCarthney, writer-in-residence at the university. Back in New York, she interned at WET (Women's Expressive Theater), a company that produces up-and-coming female playwrights to learn more about women in theater. Strange Heart, set at Columbia in the 1930's, follows the destructive love triangle of Maggie, a graduate student, her professor, Jack, and her classmate, Richard. While her mother attempts to marry her off to a proper society husband, Richard and Jack fight to win over her heart and mind. Maggie uses any means possible to get the only thing she really wants--a career of her own and the autonomy she desperately hopes to achieve. Ann Marie plans to continue writing and remains passionate about the theater. She has applied to study English Literature at several doctoral programs across the country and hopes to become a professor of Modernist fiction.

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