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Irene O’Garden’s critically-acclaimed
play Women on Fire (2004
Lucille
Lortel Award nominee for Outstanding
Solo Show) opened last October at the
Cherry Lane Theatre. The show,
starring
two-time Tony-award winner Judith
Ivey,
played to sold-out houses and the run
was twice extended. Samuel French is
publishing the play and two of its
monologues are included in Best
Women’s Stage Monologues 2004. Ms.
Ivey plans a national tour of the
show.
O’Garden also won the Gold Oppenheim
Toy Portfolio Best Book Award 2004 for
her children’s book, The Scrubbly
Bubbly Car Wash (Harper). Her
first
children's book, Maybe My Baby
(Harper) has sold nearly 75,000
copies.
O’Garden’s writing is anthologized
with
Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou,
Gloria
Steinem and others in The Greatness
of Girls (Andrews McMeel).
Included
is an excerpt from her book, Fat
Girl, which describes how she came
to peace with food and body after a
decades-long struggle. Harper San
Francisco published it in hardcover
with her drawings, and O’Garden has
performed it throughout the US and
Canada.
Both national magazines and literary
journals have published O’Garden’s
poetry. In 1987, she created a
performing literary magazine called
The Art Garden. She has
continued to produce, host and write
for it ever since.
She lives joyfully with John
Pielmeier,
her husband of twenty-five years. Most
known for his play Agnes of
God,
John also writes movies for
television.
They make their home in Garrison, New
York. Please visit
www.ireneogarden.com.
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