{"id":839,"date":"2013-11-26T04:10:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpexplorer-demos.com\/?page_id=839"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:46:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:46:55","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochelle Owens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row content_placement=&#8221;bottom&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; bottom_margin=&#8221;30px&#8221; color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221;]Rochelle Owens is the daughter of Maxwell and Molly (Adler) Bass. A native New Yorker, Owens studied at the New School for Social Research (now The New School) and University of Montreal. After a brief marriage to David Owens, she married poet George Economou on June 17, 1962. She has taught at Brown University, the University of California-San Diego, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<figure class=\"vcex-image vcex-module wpex-text-center\"><div class=\"vcex-image-inner wpex-relative wpex-inline-block\"><img width=\"278\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rochelle-Owens-1.jpg\" class=\"vcex-image-img wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rochelle-Owens-1.jpg 278w, https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rochelle-Owens-1-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;bottom&#8221; disable_element=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;]<style>.vcex-heading.vcex_6a21b8cdd9e10{color:#000000;font-size:24px;font-weight:700;}<\/style><h1 class=\"vcex-heading vcex-heading-plain vcex-module wpex-text-balance wpex-heading wpex-text-2xl wpex-mb-20 vcex_6a21b8cdd9e10\"><span class=\"vcex-heading-inner wpex-inline-block\">Rochelle Owens<\/span><\/h1>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; bottom_margin=&#8221;30px&#8221; color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221;]Rochelle Owens is the daughter of Maxwell and Molly (Adler) Bass. A native New Yorker, Owens studied at the New School for Social Research (now The New School) and University of Montreal. After a brief marriage to David Owens, she married poet George Economou on June 17, 1962. She has taught at Brown University, the University of California-San Diego, the University of Oklahoma, and the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;]<figure class=\"vcex-image vcex-module wpex-text-center\"><div class=\"vcex-image-inner wpex-relative wpex-inline-block\"><img width=\"278\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rochelle-Owens-1.jpg\" class=\"vcex-image-img wpex-align-middle\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rochelle-Owens-1.jpg 278w, https:\/\/rochelleowens.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Rochelle-Owens-1-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 278px) 100vw, 278px\" \/><\/div><\/figure>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; bottom_margin=&#8221;30px&#8221; color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221;]A pioneer in the experimental Off-Broadway Theatre movement and also influential to the poetry at St. Marks Poetry Project and Deux Megots as a founding participant as well as being involved in the ethnopoetics movement, Owens is widely known as one of the most innovative and controversial writers of this century, whose ground-breaking work has influenced subsequent experimental playwrights and poets. Since its first publication in 1961, her play &#8220;Futz&#8221; has become a classic of the American avant-garde and an international success. Toronto banned it, an Edinburgh paper dubbed it &#8220;lust and bestiality play&#8221; but New Yorkers queued around the block when it was first produced in the sixties. In 1969, it was made into a film, which has attained a cult following. Her plays have been presented worldwide and in festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon, Paris and Berlin. Owens&#8217; important literary contribution has been the subject of a wide range of scholarship. During the 1960s and 70s Owens&#8217; plays premiered in New York City at The Judson Poets Theatre, LaMama ETC., Theatre for the New City and The American Place Theatre. She was a founding member of The New York Theater Strategy and the Women&#8217;s Theater council. In 1984 after relocating to Norman, Oklahoma, she hosted &#8220;The Writers Mind&#8221;, a radio interview program from The University of Oklahoma featuring creative artists. She currently lives in Philadelphia, PA and Wellfleet, MA.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 she was celebrated for her achievements at LaMama Theatre in New York in its series, Coffeehouse Chronicles. Her autobiography is published in &#8220;Contemporary Authors&#8221;, Volume 2; Gale Research, 1983. Owens has lectured and read widely in the United States and abroad and has been a participant at the Franco-Anglais Festival de Poesie, Paris. A member of ASCAP, New Dramatists Alumni, and The Dramatists Guild, her poetry and plays have appeared in many journals and magazines including Upstairs At Duroc, Simbolica, Scripts, Yale Theatre, &#8216;Yugen, Plumed Horn, Nomad, Midwest, Floating World, Exile, Sulfur, Partisan Review, Trobar, First Intensity, Golden Handcuffs, Mandorla, Another Chicago Review, Temblor, The Iowa Review and the on-line publication NewVerseNews.Com. Her controversial poem, &#8220;Chomsky Grilling Linguica&#8221; has been nominated for two On-line Awards for Best Poetry.[\/vc_column_text]<a href=\"https:\/\/www.betweenthecovers.com\/pages\/books\/447553\/rochelle-owens\/archive-28-books-from-rochelle-owens-library\" class=\"vcex-button theme-button grey inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"vcex-button-inner theme-button-inner wpex-flex wpex-flex-wrap wpex-items-center wpex-justify-center\">Learn More<\/span><\/a> [\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column]<div class=\"vcex-image-grid-wrap\"><div class=\"vcex-module vcex-image-grid grid-style-default wpex-row wpex-clr wpex-lightbox-group\"><div class=\"id-4703 vcex-image-grid-entry vcex-grid-item wpex-text-center span_1_of_5 col col-1\"><figure class=\"vcex-image-grid-entry-figure wpex-last-mb-0 wpex-clr\"><div class=\"vcex-image-grid-entry-img entry-media wpex-relative wpex-mb-20\"><a 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