Syringa Tree (Gien)

Author Bio
• Birth—1957
• Where—Johannesburg, South Africa
• Education—N/A
• Awards—Obie Award for Best Play and Performance; Drama
   Desk Award for Performance; Outer Circle Award for
   Performance; Drama League Honor—all for 2001 for the
   stage version of Syringa.
• Currently—lives in California

Pamela Gien was born and raised in South Africa. She is the recipient of the Obie Award for Best Play 2001. She currently lives in the United States. The Syringa Tree is her first novel. (From the publisher.)

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The Syringa Tree had its world premiere at ACT in Seattle, followed by a two-year run in New York. Gien has since travelled around the world, including London and Cape Town, performing the play, astonishing audiences with her adept portrayal of such diverse characters, and moving them deeply through the raw emotions and profound insights contained within the story.

As both a writer and performer of The Syringa Tree, Pamela Gien won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Solo Performance, a Drama League Honor, a nomination for the John Gassner Playwriting Award, and the Obie for both Performance and Best Play 2001. She shares these awards and her deepest gratitude with Matt Salinger, her producer and Larry Moss, her director.

She has also appeared in film in Men Seeking Women with Will Ferrell, and The Last Supper starring Bill Paxton, Jason Alexander, Charles Durning, and Ron Perlman.