I’m Ellen Swain. I’ve made my living off crime for years. Once I stopped dating juvenile delinquents, I started representing them in court. I’ve worked as a lifeguard, a law professor, a playwright, a newspaper reporter and a judicial law clerk. I’m revising my first crime novel and writing a book to help students with learning differences navigate law school. I am equally interested in saints, sages and sociopaths. Beauty and darkness.
(reposted from SF Bay Times, here) Dominican University and the Fringe of Marin began their awards ceremony with a standing ovation for Dr. Annette Lust, Artistic Director and Festival Coordinator, at Meadowlands Assembly Hall in San Rafael on December 6. This completes the 22nd season of new one-act plays and solo performances by Bay Area [...]
I once heard the playwright John Guere say something to the effect that a play is never finished, it’s just abandoned. I’ve abandoned full-length plays: a dark comedy about a woman addicted to plastic surgery and without the means to pay for it, and one about couples engaged in a therapeutic weekend in a remote [...]
I’m Ellen Swain. I’ve made my living off crime for years. Once I stopped dating juvenile delinquents, I started representing them in court. I’ve worked as a lifeguard, a law professor, a playwright, a newspaper reporter and a judicial law clerk. I’m revising my first crime novel and writing a book to help students with learning differences navigate law school. I am equally interested in saints, sages and sociopaths. Beauty and darkness. Humor and tragedy. Read about it on my blog here: Murder, Wonder & Amazement. On Twitter: @ellensv. Contact Me at eswain.sf[at]gmail.com.
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