Pamela Palmer Mutino's -S-W-I-S-H: Maria in the Mourning was also performed as a staged reading in March, 2007, and received stellar reviews due to its universal appeal which courageously deals with every aspect of the human condition...an emotional and literary masterpiece. As a playwright she has produced five plays: Pump and Circumstance, The Off Season, Lawnmower, A Horse Named Jack, There's Coldcuts If You Want 'Em, and has written numerous skits for The Village Players theater troupe's many cabaret productions. Other performance pieces include three children's plays: Old New York, Lemonade Stand, and Mr. Ice Cream. Her poetry has been published in The Poet and The American Poetry Anthology. The American Poetry Association awarded her poem, "Attempted," a first place prize in its nationwide contest in 1984. She has a B.A. in Literature and Theater (magna cum laude) and an M.A.T. in Secondary English Education, both from Manhattanville College where she was also the recipient of The Margaret Williams Award for Literary Criticism for her paper: Moll and Tom: The Forgotten Children in Eighteenth Century Literature. A writing teacher for the Port Chester Council for the Arts for the last twenty-five years, she has taught poetry, creative writing, journalism and every component of the language arts curriculum to students of all ages. She lives in Port Chester, New York with her husband, Peter, where she enjoys her passion for "preserving a lost elegance," through decorating, entertaining and gardening.
