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Maryrose Wood Maryrose Wood's somewhat unconventional road to becoming a novelist involved a decade spent acting, directing and doing improv comedy, and then another long stint as a playwright, librettist and screenwriter. But let us begin at the beginning. Maryrose grew up on Long Island, moved to New York City at age 17 to study acting at NYU, then dropped out of college to be in the chorus of a Broadway musical—which flopped. Lean and action-packed years of acting, directing, and making drunk people laugh at comedy clubs followed. Becoming a writer seemed an astonishingly easy way out of this Dickensian existence, and not a moment too soon. Accolades have occasionally been heaped upon Maryrose's writing for the theatre. She was the first recipient of the Georgia Bogardus Holof Lyricist Award, and is a three-time recipient of the Richard Rodgers Award for New Musicals, which is administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Maryrose did eventually graduate from NYU's Gallatin School. She lives with her two children. Their mischievous antics prevent her from getting an excessive amount of work done, thus keeping her life hilariously in balance. They live in New York, with a small, feisty, red-headed dog. In her spare time, Maryrose is a highly enthusiastic but only sporadically successful gardener. This year she intends to plant foxgloves and other plants known to attract faeries. |
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