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Writing
Barrie began writing short stories and poetry as soon as she could read.
In the intervening decades, she transitioned to dramatic writing and creative nonfiction.
She also worked for seven years as an editor of academic journal articles.
Drama
Barrie's play about legendary theatre artist and queer icon Eva Le Gallienne, The Queen of Fourteenth Street, was produced as an original audio drama by Hachette Audio. Released on June 4, 2024, it is available on all digital audio platforms.
Under its earlier title, In Love With Night, the play was a semifinalist for the 2021 Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival and had a developmental reading in 2020, produced by the Bechdel Project.
Barrie's other full-length play, A Thousand Shapes, was a semifinalist for the 2020 Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the 2020 Ashland New Plays Festival. It has had four developmental readings, most recently at Trinity Rep in 2019.
In 2013, Barrie received the Davis Wickham Playwriting Award at Brown/Trinity Rep.
She has written and performed two solo shows: piece(s), a performance-art collage (2006), and The Glamorous Life, a cabaret comedy (2009).
In 2020, Barrie wrote and starred in Episode 3.03 of the popular web series Love in NY. ​In 2016, she wrote the screenplay for the short film Orphans, in which she also starred.
Creative Nonfiction
Barrie's published essays include:
"How Eva Le Gallienne Revolutionized Early 20th-Century Theater" (LitHub, June 2024)
"The Best School for a Writer: Madeleine and Miss LeG."
(Madeleine L'Engle blog, June 2024)​
"Do You Have an Accent? (Hint: The Answer is Always Yes)"(Medium, July 2019)
"The Wizard's Lair: The Man Behind the Belasco Theatre"
(Theaterhound, March 2019)
"Can I Get a Witness?"
(Months to Years, Winter 2019)
"Audiobooks: The Theatre of the Voice"
(Theaterhound, July 2018)
"Not Only For Amusement: Eva Le Gallienne and the Civic Rep"
(Theaterhound, May 2018)
In 2020, Barrie began writing a creative nonfiction blog, Points of View. Her posts marry memoir with opinion, exploring the intersection between the personal and the universal.
Barrie is currently at work on a long-form creative nonfiction project.
(Otherwise known as a book.)
Watch this space for details!
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