O'Keeffe! On Tour
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Acting Out, Acting Up
Please enjoy perusing my work and passions. I am a proud member of the tribe of artists. I was raised in a family where all of the arts were celebrated and engaged in as a matter of course—often at the same time, so this is my way of life. I am blessed to be able to do what I do. I personally feel everyone is born creative. To the artists; your own acknowledgement over others’.
My one woman show, O’Keeffe!, which celebrates the life of American Artist Georgia O’Keeffe, is a coming together of my writing, acting, and love of art. It’s a great pleasure to once again share this unique and creative life with audiences who come away feeling inspired and provoked.
On this site you’ll find specific info on my tour of O’Keeffe!, where it will be playing, how to book it, or if you’re a theatre or actor looking to produce your own production, how to do that.
If you’re interested in my acting, check out my acting resume, and take a gander at some of the various characters I’ve played. The plays I’ve written are listed, those published, produced, and ready for licensing.
Ball & Chain is the acoustic American duo I am part of with my husband Jon Piro, Explore our music, where we’ve played, and if you would like us to come to your town, just let us know!
My blog, Art Matters, is a combination of thoughts, musings, recommendations, research, reviews, and recipes. Pursue at your your own risk.
Enjoy!
Peace,
Lucinda
O’Keeffe!, a one-woman play written and performed by Lucinda McDermott, explores the artistic and personal struggles of iconic American artist Georgia O’Keeffe. The play follows her as she grapples with the unresolved question that art afficianodos continue to debate today: Who is responsible for her success – herself or her famous and influential husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz.
O’Keeffe and Stieglitz maintained a passionate and tempestuous relationship for 30 years. Known as “the father of modern photography,” Stieglitz photographed O’Keeffe more than 500 times and was the first to exhibit her work.
Grateful for his initial interest, O’Keeffe soon struggles to maintain her fierce independence in both her life and her art. The play takes us on a journey with O’Keeffe from 1915, when she began developing her own style, through to Stieglitz’s death in 1946. The struggle to survive independently within her relationship and to understand her own creative process is part of O’Keeffe’s search to answer the question, “Was it me or was it Stieglitz?”
Because this conflict between individualism and a shared life is at the heart of everyone’s personal journey, the play is as much about us as it is about O’Keeffe. Lucinda McDermott presents us with an O’Keeffe that is human, witty, and lively. An engrossing drama about the beloved American icon.
O’Keeffe! is available for booking or for independent productions. View the current tour dates or contact Lucinda to schedule a performance.
Learn more about how to schedule a performance of O’Keeffe! in your venue. In addition to theatrical performances, we also offer a variety of workshops and seminars that can be geared to a range of ages and needs. View Booking Info.
Find out what critics, presenters and audiences have to say about Lucinda McDermott in O’Keeffe! View Reviews and News.
O’Keeffe! is now touring. Find out where and when you can see playwright Lucinda McDermott in her one woman show. View Tour Dates.
Lucinda McDermott is an award-winning playwright with more than 20 plays to her credit. Her works have been produced both in New York City and regionally. In addition to her one-woman show O’Keeffe!, other notable plays include Shatter the Vessel, winner of the University of Virginia’s 1999 Delauney Prize in Playwriting, Rumpus Room, the 2011 Martha Hill Newell Playwright’s Award winner, and Feeding on Mulberry Leaves, winner of the 1998 Delauney Prize and the 2004 Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights. She was the 2011 Flournoy Playwright.
Some of her works are available on Playscripts. View a complete list of her produced works.
“The Inferno”, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
“In Your Face”
Lucinda McDermott’s roles include such diverse performances as The Dream Time, Elvis People (world premieres), Big River, A Wonderful Life, Magic to Do (premiere), and her one woman show O’Keeffe! which has been produced Off-Broadway and toured extensively around the country and in Bermuda. She has done stage, TV, film and industrials in New York and throughout the United States.
Lucinda is a member of Actors Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild of America.
This past September I was involved in a great project, the staged reading and backers audition for Woman of Light, a rock opera based on the life of Mary Magdalene written by my dear friend Michele Wagner. I was in London for two weeks to assist anyway I could, and ended up being in the cast directed by the wonderful and amazing director, Marc Urquhart. How was it being in a play in the West End? Pretty far out. We performed September 21, 2012 at the Charing Cross Theatre.
Lucinda with the cast of “Woman of Light” after recording in Studio Pool in London.
In October I was privileged to work with my son, Dante Piro, for the first time in a show. We were both in Pinkalicious, the musical, at Roanoke Children’s Theatre in Roanoke, Virginia. I played Mrs. Pinkerton and Dante played the role of – wait for it – my son Peter. It was a ton of fun, kids loved it, but the best part was working with Dante. Check out the excellent review in the Roanoke Times.
Dante Piro, Caroline Rigby, and Lucinda McDermott in “Pinkalicious” at Roanoke Children’s Theatre
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It’s always a special treat when threads of connection form between my various interests and projects. I am currently under a commission by Washington & Lee University to write a musical play about their alum Larry Wynn ’34, who had been a Tin Pan Alley songwriter and singer, who later became a sales phenom for […]
by Lucinda
Placed in Art Matters, Larry Wynn
Tagged with Andy Razaf, Black Tin Pan Alley, Larry Wynn, The Palmer Brothers, Tin Pan Alley
Here we go to our first presenter’s conference in Durham, NC! Arts Market 2013 . Very excited, and hoping to get lots and lots of bookings. Getting the press kits and other marketing tools together. I will present 15 minutes of O’Keeffe! with a total of 5 minutes to get the set off and on. Yeah. . […]
by Lucinda
Placed in Art Matters, O'Keeffe!, plays, theatre
Tagged with ArtsMarket 2013, Bryan Jones, Lucinda McDermott, O'Keeffe, Rick Dickinson, Seagrace Films, Veda Renfrow
There are a few of us, still trying to hang on, fingers gripped on a rickety gutter pulling away from a multi-story neglected house. Clinging not because of a dream, or some need for attention, but because of a true, gut centered calling. A nagging, divinely sent provocation that art is necessary despite what the […]
by Lucinda
Placed in activism, Art Matters
Tagged with actors, art, artists, designers, directors, filmographers, musicians, painters, playwrights, poets, sculptors, writers
“Development” is a word that playwrights both embrace and loathe. Once I am past that delightful, solitary struggle to get the play onto paper, looking so neat and controlled, black against white, solid format—I realize that it’s not a play until it’s worn by bodies and the words are spoken aloud. That means involving others. […]
by Lucinda
Placed in Appalachian studies, Art Matters, plays, theatre
Tagged with Appalachian Play Festival, Barter Theatre, Flournoy Festival, Lucinda McDermott, Martha Newell Playwrights Fund, Nick Piper, play development, Rumpus Room
Current project: Directing Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues for Women’s Studies at Radford University; show dates March 27 and 28 at 6pm, and March 30 at 2pm in the Hurlburt Auditorium (The Bonnie) at Radford University. This is my 4th time working with a cast of vaginas that span generations, occupations, experience on stage, and are all […]
by Lucinda
Placed in activism, Art Matters, plays, theatre
Tagged with Eve Ensler, Radford University, The Vagina Monologues, V-Day, Women's Resource Center, Women's Studies
Your own acknowledgement over others’.
Because I’m an artist and now and then can make my life solely from the arts, I think about this topic a lot. Because I’ve taught at universities and have had to hold the nervous hands of parents as they ask, “But can my child make a living?” Because I’ve had students answer the question, […]
by Lucinda
Placed in Art Matters
Tagged with art commerce, business of art, Lucinda McDermott, O'Keeffe, Victoria & Albert Museum
I’ve noted this before, but everybtime I return to the script, I seem to find something new I’d never realized before. It’s like the 50 something actor discovers a new meaning the 28 year old playwright had no idea she had written. I’m beginning to think that I wrote the play back then, for myself […]
by Lucinda
Placed in Art Matters, O'Keeffe!
Tagged with Georgia, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lucinda McDermott, O'Keeffe, playwriting
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