"More often than not, I discover while writing about the shame-inducing events I’ve experienced that the personal inadequacies I have are more universal than I originally realized." Read More
Author Joan Lipkin
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Joan Lipkin is a playwright, director, educator and social activist who divides her time between New York City, St Louis and other parts of the country. Her work is published in Best American Short Plays, Amazon All Stars: 13 Lesbian Plays, Mythic Women/Real Women: New Plays and Performance Pieces, Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theatre as if Race and Gender Matter, Here Come the Brides: Tales of Lesbian Love and Marriage and numerous other anthologies. The co-producer of the Briefs Festival of Short LGBTQ Plays, she is the recipient of many awards including a Visionary, the James F. Hornbeck Ethical Humanist of the Year, Women and Theatre Achievement for Activism and Performance, and Arts Innovator of the Year.
