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Biography
MARIANNE McDONALD is Professor of Theatre and Classics at the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She was a Fulbright professor in 1999, and, in addition to her post at UCSD, is adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin and a fellow at the National University of Ireland. She is the founder and initiator of projects to computerize Greek literature (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) and Irish literature (Thesaurus Linguae Hibernicae. She is a pioneer in the field of modern versions of the classics, in films, plays and opera. With over 200 publications (several translated into Greek and Italian), she is the author of Terms for Happiness in Euripides; Euripides in Cinema: The Heart Made Visible; Ancient Sun/ Modern Light: Greek Drama on the Modern Stage; Star Myths: Tales of the Constellations; Mythology of the Zodiac; and Sing Sorrow: Classics, History, and Heroines in Opera and The Living Art of Greek Tragedy, co-editor of Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy and The Living Art of Greek Tragedy. Her translation of Sophocles' Antigone was performed in Cork, Ireland, in 1999 (directed by Athol Fugard), Delphi, and Vienna at international festivals; the Old Globe in San Diego staged her version of Euripides' Trojan Women in 2000; her political satire based on Alcestis: The Ally Way in New York, 2002, San Diego, 2004; FireStormFlower (Noh meditation on San Diego Fires and Loss) 2004; her Antigone in Little Rock, Arkansas (2002); Medea, Queen of Colchester (about a South African colored drag queen) Sledgehammer theatre in San Diego 2003; and at Sixth at Penn, San Diego: translations of Euripides’ Children of Heracles and Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus (2003); Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, Euripides’ Hecuba, (2004); Voices of Women had a reading of her translation of Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (2004). Sixth at Penn performed her Antigone in 2005, as did students at UCSD. Her …and then he met a woodcutter, set in ancient Japan, was performed at Cygnet theatre, and is also published. She is an honorary citizen of Delphi. Her most recent published translations are: Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Hecuba, Euripides’ Trojan Women, and with Michael Walton: Euripides’ Andromache, Sophocles’ Electra, and Euripides’ Electra. She has received honorary doctorates of letters (honoris causa) from the American College of Greece; the Archeological Association of Athens; the University of Athens; University of Thessaloniki; the University of Dublin; and National University of Ireland. Among other awards, she has received the Order of the Phoenix from the Prime Minister of Greece; the Hypatia Award (with Melina Mercouri); gold medals from the mayors of Athens and Piraeus; the Golden Aeschylus Award from Italy; the Ellis Island Award (with Hilary Clinton); the Distinguished Service Award from the American Philological Association; Gold Star Award by the San Diego Performing Arts League; UCI Medal; in 2004: Egeria Award: Women’s International Center; the KPBS Patté Award for theatre excellence; and San Diego Playbill “Billie” Award Artist of the Year for her plays.

 

 
 

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