Type
Text
Type
Thesis
Advisor
Rosenblatt, Roger | Sheehan, Julie | Leach, Amy.
Date
2014-08-01
Keywords
Fine arts
Department
Department of Creative Writing and Literature.
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/77349
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
The Life and Lessons of Miss Alabaster: a memoir of a memoir loosely chronicles the life I have lived so far. My story covers growing up, the world I navigated as actress and singer on Broadway and NYC during the sixties, while flaunting sex, alcohol and musical comedy. Recovery changed the course of the story, introducing sobriety, a peculiar but perseverant marriage, baffling parenting, a unique spiritual journey, and many careers: Emmy winning lyricist for Sesame Street, actor, singer, waitress, teacher, substance abuse counselor, practicing psychotherapist, and published writer. Recovery has also led me to be less miserable, slightly less self-centered, and hopefully funnier. The piece is threaded through by an archetypal flash fiction character named Miss Alabaster, into a post-modern, kaleidoscopic memoir. | 124 pages
Recommended Citation
Bloomfield, Maggie, "The Life and Lessons of Miss Alabaster" (2014). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 3169.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/3169