Angeline Larimer

Scripts:
THE FILE ROOM
CHILDREN OF THE STAR WARS
LOOK HOMEWARD, EDDIE
FISH IN THE DESERT
LIFE WITHOUT RUE
CLEMENT’S ARK
THE SPECTRUM OF LETTING GO
LAFRACOTH ILLUMINED
LASTING
JUNIPER’S DEAD HENS

MFA Playwright -
Indiana University Bloomington
Graduate assistant of Prof. Dennis J. Reardon

(poster design by Wes Peters)

a play
by Angeline Larimer

World premiere:
Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Theatre & Drama
2001-2002 Theatre Season

MFA thesis play
Mentor: Dennis J. Reardon

a full-length play
by Angeline Larimer

THE SPECTRUM OF LETTING GO began as a course project for MHHS as a play intended to be a vehicle for public health. It focuses on the opioid crisis, proper administration of naloxone, PTSD in veterans of the Vietnam War, and end of life decisions.

Its further development was funding by the Myles and Peg Brand Fellowship in Bioethics.

THE SPECTRUM OF LETTING GO has been produced as staged readings by Indianapolis area theatre professionals on IUPUI’s campus, the Theatre Department at Hobart and William Smith Colleges Dept. of Theatre, and Vs. Theatre of Los Angeles.

It received a 2022 nomination for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

a new play
by Angeline Larimer

(photo by Dr. H. May at HWS Colleges in New York)

Angeline has been teaching since 1999, beginning with her 3-year Indiana University Dept. of Theatre & Drama MFA fellowship as assistant instructor to Prof. Dennis J. Reardon, head of IU’s Playwriting Program .

Areas of Expertise:
Applied Playwriting & Theatre
Applied Theatre & Health Humanities
Dramaturgy
Ethics of Playwriting
New Play Development
Playwriting
Screenwriting
Script Analysis
Structure of Drama

Faculty or Instructor:
Propel New Works
Theatre for Veterans
LA Writers Center
PlayPenn
Indiana University Indianapolis Bloomington Playwrights Project
Indiana University Bloomington

Guest Lecturer:
American Lives Theatre
Fordham University
Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indiana Prison Writers Workshop
Indy Convergence
LA Writers Center
OLLI at UGA

(photo by Dave McCaskill)

Life in the Pumpkin Shell began in 2004 as a creative outlet exploring the new medium of blogging.

It became a support and advocacy blog for parents traversing early childhood diagnostics for non-verbal children. Over a million viewers read the post “To the parents of other Jacks.”

Affiliate Faculty for Indiana University Indianapolis; 2018 - present

The IUPUI graduate certificate in Medical Humanities and Health Studies provided a bridge between the MFA in playwriting and a need to do advocacy work in health care. The MHHS program provided incredible access to the medical world, as well as valuable perspective on the multiple benefits for all professionals provided by an arts and humanities education.

Continued Education in Medical Humanities/Health Humanities:

Columbia University Basic Narrative Medicine Spring Workshop / Spring 2020.

Academic presentations on Medical Humanities :

Advanced Teaching and Learning Symposium at IUPUI, American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Humanities Health Consortium, the International Health Humanities Conference, the National Humanities Conference, and Writers in Health Professions.

Medical Humanities Courses:

Introduction to Medical Humanities
Dramatic Medicine (400 level)
Playwriting and Medicine (400 level)
Theatre of Health and War (400 level)

Bioethicist - CDC Overdose Data to Action Grant awarded to Marion County of Indiana in 2020.

Current member as bioethicist:
OD2A Group of Indiana, Overdose Fatality Review, OFR REACT, and former leader of OFR Access-to-Care subcommittee

Co-developer with Brandon T. Pieczko, MLIS of the independent IRB approved project: Indiana Substance Use Disorder Oral History Project

MA Philosophy in Bioethics/ Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Certificate/Yale University Sherwin B. Nuland Summer Institute in Bioethics

Multiple conference presentations

Paper:
Goals of care communication and higher-value care for patients with advanced-stage cancer: A systematic review of the evidence

Angeline’s work is often at the intersection of playwriting and health humanities. She facilitates intensive playwriting workshops for special groups and nonprofit organizations that serve their communities. She has worked with students of all ages from grade school to professional playwrights at the nationally recognized level, non-theatre majors, medical students, public health students, U.S. military veterans, incarcerated writers, formerly incarcerated writers, and persons recovering from substance use disorder.

Paper example:

MEDICAL STUDENT AS PLAYWRIGHT: DRAMATIZING IMELDA | Emily Beckman and Angeline Larimer

Angeline is the Lead Dramaturg for PlayPenn.

Classes for PlayPenn:
Writing the Autobiographical Play
Ethical Playwriting

2022 conference dramaturg for Ian August’s All the Emilies in All the Universes - which is a GREAT play!