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Constance S. Congdon (born 1944) is an American playwright and librettist. She has won grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the W. Alton Jones Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was described by Tony Kushner as "one of the best playwrights our country, and our language, has produced." The scope of Congdon’s plays has been described as "epic." Her first play had 30 scenes and 57 characters, and her 2001 play ''Casanova'' covered 73 years in 19 scenes set between Paris and Venice. Her most well-known plays include: ''Boarders'', ''Casanova'', ''Facing Forward,'' ''Lips,'' ''Losing Father's Body,'' ''The Misanthrope'', ''A Mother'', ''No Mercy'', ''The Servant of Two Masters'', ''Tartuffe'' and ''Tales of the Last Formicans.'' She has written a number of opera libretti and seven plays for the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis. Her playwriting career includes an adaptation of Maxim Gorky’s ''A Mother'' with Olympia Dukakis in the lead role. Congdon was born in Rock Rapids, Iowa. Her first play, ''Gilgamesh'', was produced in 1977. Congdon received her M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1982. She has taught playwriting at Amherst College since 1993.〔 〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Constance Congdon」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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