Ruby Rae Spiegel used her time in residence to complete the first draft of a play that focuses on adult conceptions of childhood, and non-normative desire. Prior to her MacDowell fellowship, Spiegel was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for her first full-length play Dry Land, a play about two girls on a Florida swim team attempting a do-it-yourself abortion. Dry Land was also a critic's pick for The New York Times and has been produced in more than seven states and several countries abroad.
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Ruby Spiegel
Discipline:
Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2017
Studios
New Hampshire
Ruby Spiegel worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…