Miriam Seidel
Writer, Curator, Critic

Scriptworks and Fiction
Violet Fire, a multimedia opera project about the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla. Jon Gibson wrote the score to my libretto. Following a workshop performance at Temple University in 2004, Violet Fire received its world premiere at the National Theater Belgrade (Serbia) in July 2006. It will have its US premiere at BAM's Next Wave Festival in October 2006. This project has been supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding, The Soros Foundation's Fund for an Open Society-Serbia, The Nikola Tesla 150th Anniversary Committee of the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro, the Cultural Ministry of Serbia and Montenegro, the BELEF Festival, Temple University, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, corporate sponsors Hyatt Hotels, Euronet and McDonalds, and individual donors.


Interference. In this radio play with sound collage by John J.H. Phillips, a person reacts to a mysterious progressive disintegration of the physical world. Featuring Steven Novelli. Commissioned and broadcast by New American Radio. Text published in A Hundred and One Nights, an anthology by members of the Working Writers Group.

The Big Picture. What really happened with Y2K? In a short dramatic monologue, a programmer comes clean about the deeply hidden agenda behind this worldwide event. Performed as part of 2000 Voices, Monologues for the Millennium, produced by InterAct Theatre.

Tunguska, a script for several voices, looks at the legendary Tunguska event of 1908, a huge blast over Siberia that has never been fully explained, through the eyes of a Siberian shaman and others.

Fiction: Stories published in Exquisite Corpse, Washington Square, Phoebe, First Intensity and elsewhere. Novel, The Speed of Clouds, unpublished.

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