M A R I L Y N C A M P B E L L - L O W E
PLAYWRIGHT, PERFORMER, PRODUCER,
CO-FOUNDER, CORE MEMBER
REPRESENTATION
Literary: Gurman Agency LLC 212.749.4618, New York, NY
("Crime and Punishment" only)
Publisher: Dramatic Publishing, 815.338.7170, www.dramaticpublishing.com
Performer: shirleyhamiltoninc. - 312.787.4700, Chicago
NEW CLASSICS COLLECTIVE
Paul Oakley Stovall, Founder,
Artistic Director
Marilyn Campbell-Lowe,
Founding Core Member
​
Cheryl Lynn Bruce (not pictured), Founding Core Member
​
NEW CLASSICS COLLECTIVE (NCC) was founded in Chicago after recognizing that buried voices deserved to be mined. WRITTEN BY PHILLIS marks the Premiere Production for New Classics Collective. However, our founding core group, Paul Oakley Stovall, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, and Marilyn Campbell-Lowe, represent a history of practice in the field of new plays and adaptations of literature for the stage, which spans decades. NCC represents something new, focused on expanding and experimenting with new theatrical models. Up next! FIRE!!
​
"WRITTEN BY PHILLIS
On stage in Sept. 2025 at Quintessence Th., Philidelphia, PA
2025 Grant Recipient ,
The William Penn Foundation and the NEA
F E A T U R E D R E V I E W S
ON STAGE! 2024-2025
"To be able to take the original book and manage to extract everything needed for a ninety-minute play is just amazing ... Hats off to Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus for producing such a well-written flowing narrative." --London, UK, Westend
“CRIME AND PUNISHMENT” in a feat that rivals the construction of the Hoover Dam, has been distilled into a taut 90-minute play by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus, and the production will banish any bad memories you might have of trying to struggle through Dostoyevsky’s book.” -- Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
“THE BEATS,” adapted by Marilyn Campbell, and first seen at Writers’ Theatre in 1997 is now getting what will surely be the defining production of this generation at Berwyn’s now hotly competitive 16th Street Theater. --Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times
"MY OWN STRANGER," by Marilyn Campbell and Linda Laundra, is a return to the core of poetry as performance, and the best sort of union of language and presence ... A must see! Absolutely riviting. --Sacramento News
2024-2025
COMMISSIONS!
​
​
• QUINTESSENCE THEATRE, Philadelphia PA w/
NEW CLASSICS COLLECTIVE, Paul Oakley Stovall, Art. Dir.
2-PLAY COMMISSION
• Written by Phillis
Original New Play, OPENED MAY 13, 2023
NEA Grant Recipient
• FIRE!, New Adaptation of 1926 Magazine, featuring works by Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, OPENS 2025
​
***
​
• ADDITIONAL COMMISSION
​
SENTINALS: New play, commissioned by CPA Theatricals​
FIRE!", w/Paul Oakley Stovall, Quintessence Theatre, PA (Fall 2025). Awarded $225,000 Grant (Wm Penn Foundation) & $25,000 (NEA)
​
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
PHOENIX ENSEMBLE THEATRE, NYC (1/2024)
Phoenix Ensemble Theatre
"Stupendous. They have taken Dostoyevsky’s work about a horrible murder, redemption, and the twisted words we tell ourselves to justify our monstrous actions, and boiled it down to ninety minutes compressing it to a rich dense cream. A completely fulfilling evening of theater!" Holli Harms, Front Row Center, NYC
​
INTERVIEW (PHOENIX ART DIR. & CAMPBELL/COLUMBUS
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMSR42QkOjk
​
"SENTINELS" workshop, Dir. Bill Osetek, Den Theater
"JUNGLE JIM KIDZ," Ovation Academy
"LIVED THROUGH THIS," w/Anne K. Ream,
Virginia Stage Co.
​
"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT" - The Street Theater,
Australia
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Eler Theatre, Athens, Greece
Translated into Greek
32 performances
City Wide Tour
2021
​
JUNGLE JIM, Libretto
by Marilyn Campbell-Lowe
CreateTheater New Works Festival
Theater Row, NYC
June 3 & 4, 2023
"CRIME AND PUNISHMENT,"
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (2017)
Corpus Christ Owlets
"The subject matter of this distillation of Crime and Punishment may be chilling, even harrowing. But its lesson that humanity can triumph over delusions of power is a timeless and heartening one. Those lucky folk in possession of a ticket for Corpus Christ Owlets' production can prepare themselves for a sophisticated and enthralling treat."
​
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
Budapest, Hungary
Performed in Hungarian
April, 2023
​
​