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Fiona Templeton is an experimental director, playwright, poet and performer.[1][2] Born in Scotland in 1951, she co-founded London's Theatre of Mistakes in the 1970s and lived for many years in the East Village of Manhattan. Her performance work includes the pioneering urban theatrical journey, You-The City. She has received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2002); and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Asian Cultural Council, and a Senior Judith E. Wilson Fellowship at Cambridge. She is founder and Artistic Director of The Relationship.[3]

The Relationship

The Relationship, founded in 2000, is a performance art group and nonprofit based in both New York, New York and London.[4] The Relationship is known for taking an innovative approach to language and for exploring the relationship between the audience and performers.[5] The group is well known for its production of "The Medead", a monumental performance work most recently performed in collaboration with Samita Sinha at Roulette Brooklyn in New York.[6]

The Relationship also directs the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights, established in 2012 in memory of experimental poet and publisher Leslie Scalapino.[7]

Bibliography

• The Medead, New York: Roof Books, 2014 - play cycle
• Mum in Airdrie Glasgow: Object Permanence, 2005 - poems
• Delirium of Interpretations, Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2003 - play
• Cells of Release, New York: Roof Books, 1997 - poem and photographs from an installation
• oops the join, Cambridge: rempress, 1997 - poems
• YOU - The City, New York: Roof Books, 1990 - performance script with director's notes and photographs
• Hi Cowboy, London: Mainstream, 1991 - poems
• London, College Park: Sun & Moon Press, 1984 - poetry
• Elements of Performance Art, London: Ting Books, 1976 - theory and exercises (with Anthony Howell)

Her anthologies include Out of Everywhere, From the Other Side of the Century, and Sun & Moon.

References

External links

• Fiona Templeton's website
• Handwriting as a form of protest
• Sites and (Human) nonsites

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