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3 unusual facts about Maria Dahvana Headley


Boise Contemporary Theater

Its world premieres included 'two world premiere productions and one world premiere reading of plays by Maria Dahvana Headley: Drive Me (1998), Bare (2001), and Last of the Breed (2008).

Often a mix of brand new or in development plays and award-winning contemporary plays, notable premiere readings include plays by Maria Dahvana Headley (Author of The Year of Yes), Don DeLillo (Novelist/Playwright, Winner of The National Book Award), and Dano Madden, winner of the 2007 Kennedy Center National Student Playwriting Award.

Maria Dahvana Headley

In early 2010, Dutton purchased Headley's debut novel Queen of Kings, which explores "the transcendent powers of love even beyond death, entwining the true story of Antony and Cleopatra and Rome's invasion of Alexandria with a narrative in which the Queen of Egypt sacrifices her soul to save her fallen husband and in return is transformed into an immortal goddess bent on the destruction of the Roman Empire".



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