Carol Wolf’s plays have been produced on both coasts and five continents and include The Thousandth Night (Monsieur Shaherazad), (in the French translation, La Millieme Nuit) The Terrible Experiment of Jonathan Fish, Jacalyn, Walking on Bones, A Burglar in the House, Day/BlackNight/Morning, Eddie and Molly’s Garden, Daughter of France, The Place in the Woods, and Cymbeline Simplified! or, The Queen’s Cookies, a miscellany of which have won awards including (alphabetically) the Bay Area Critic’s Circle Award, the Boulder Creek Most Innovative Play Award, a Cabbie Award, three Gertrude Hung Chang Playwriting Awards, the L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award, a London Fringe First, two Robbie Award nominations, a Starr Award, and a Susan Smith Blackburn Playwriting Award nomination.
Carol Wolf has taught playwriting at Foothill College, Mills College, and for the UC Santa Cruz Extension Program, and Master’s classes at Trinity College, Manhattanville College, and Stages Theater in Anaheim. Her playwriting manual, Playwriting: The Merciless Craft; Comprehensive Techniques for Mastering Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Playwriting, was published by Ambush Books and is available on Amazon.
Carol Wolf is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Science Fiction Writers of America, an Associate Artist of the Colony Theater, and a member of the Pear Theatre Writer’s Guild.
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The Thousandth Night was translated into French by Gerard Linsolas. La Millieme Nuit has been performed in France in Touer-sur-var, Nice, Paris, at at the Avignon Theatre Festival, with Thierry Ferrari in the part.
See the preview for La Millieme Nuit here.
Cymbeline Simplified! or The Queen’s Cookies
A comical re-write of Cymbeline, to prove that any journeyman playwright can fix the howling errors in that script. (For details of the howling errors, see my essay, Shakespeare Did Not Write Cymbeline: You Cannot Unlearn Craft, on the page On Shakespeare on this website.
The Terrible Experiment of Jonathan Fish is a powerful, passionate, deeply dramatic feminist manifesto, except that it was hijacked by the stage manager, who fired the orchestra and the chorus, hired starlet Candace Lord to play the lead, and rewrote the play so that he could make love to her on stage. Now, it’s a comedy.
Set in the 19th century, somewhere in America, shortly after Darwin, Mr. Fish, betrayed by his wife, raises his daughter to be his companion, teaching her that there are three sexes, men, women, and girls. When Fish is murdered by his dead wife, Amelia has to deal with a world that is not as she expected. And so does Candace Lord.
Note: music for The Terrible Experiment of Jonathan Fish can be heard here
The Place in the Woods is a mystery and a ghost story, set in three time periods at a fishing lodge in the Adirondacks. A “resting” actor in 1922, a young woman claiming her health and her future in 1952, and an old woman contemplating her fate, meet across time as they share The Place in the Woods.
Heir to the spellbook of the Wizard Earl Northumberland, Dr. Kate Rowan, Professor of History, has barricaded herself into her dead uncle’s house to carry out magical experiments that will gift her with all human knowledge.
Besieged by demanding colleagues, an old friend, and her landlady, Rowan’s astonishing success in raising Dr. John Dee, court magician to Queen Elizabeth I, is at first not believed. But Dr. Dee’s prowess in raising demons who can grant knowledge, or treasure, or human desires, seduces them all to attempt a new experiment, with results none of them could foresee.
Dr. Tyler has lost a patient. To find the lost John Thorne, Tyler undergoes an extraordinary journey into the mind of his most damaged patient, seeking that most elusive of quarries, himself.
Walking on Bones is a one-man show where the actor plays eleven characters over the course of the journey.
In the heart of Paris, in the last days of the Occupation, Mimi’s Cafe is a hotbed of intrigue, where spies, refugees, and completely undisguised downed American flyers with PTSD attempt to survive for the short time remaining before the end of the war. This becomes difficult when the daring leader of the Resistance carries out the murder of a general at Mimi’s Cafe.
Hello, Carol: I think I messaged you on Facebook, but haven’t heard back. Audience members from my shows told me about your play, The Thousandth Night. They saw it within the last couple years, raved about it and wanted me to look into it. (I’ve performed a variety of several different one-man shows, and also have a strong interest in WWII – producing Judgment At Nuremberg a couple years ago.) I thought Thousandth Night was new, but learned it’s not. In any case, would love to take a look at the script. If there’s a better way to see it rather than through you, let me know. Website below, so that you can review our work. Phone number (St. Louis, MO) is 314.799.5910. Thanks for your consideration.
I am hoping to reach Carol Wolf. I saw Monsieur Shaherazad many years and worked with her in New Jersey. I would love to purchase a copy of this beautiful play. How might I do this?
Hi, Richard,
You were with us at Farleigh Dickinson at the American Stage Co? I certain remember the snow storm . . .
I rewrote the play when it went to the Delaware Theater Company, and it’s The Thousandth Night now (which was its original title). If you would like a copy, if you go to Plays on my webpage, just above the photos there’s a link, The Thousandth Night, Download. Help yourself!
What a compliment that you remember the play after all these years.
Nice to hear from you.
Carol