Rochelle owens biography
Rochelle Bass Owens is an American poet and playwright....
A prominent figure in the international avant-garde for 50 years, Rochelle Owens is a poet, playwright, translator, and video artist.
Rochelle Owens
American poet and playwright (born 1936)
Rochelle Bass Owens (born April 2, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and playwright.[1]
Life and career
Owens is the daughter of Maxwell and Molly (Adler) Bass.
She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, then studied at the New School for Social Research and the University of Montreal.
After a brief marriage to David Owens, she married the poet George Economou on June 17, 1962.[2] Owens has taught at Brown University, the University of California-San Diego, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Southwestern Louisiana.[3] As of 2018, Owens lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts and Philadelphia.[4] Her biography is published in Gale ResearchContemporary Authors, Volume 2 (1983).
In 2006, she was celebrated in La MaMa's Coffeehouse Chronicles series.[5][6]
Theatre
She was highly involved in the early off-off-Broadway theatre mov