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TRI.2015.0068 Esmaeil Najar Daronkolae, 2015 September; TRI.2016.0123: Esmaeil Najar Daronkolae, 2016 March
[identification of item], Pam Gems Papers, SPEC.TRI.PGP, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University
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Pam Gems (1925-2011) was an English playwright who authored many plays, and wrote adaptations of plays by European playwrights. She is known for the 1978 musical Piaf, about the French singer Édith Piaf. She has been nominated for two Tony awards.
The Pam Gems Papers contains an undated script and forewords, and a replica trophy circa 2010s.
Copy of a trophy that Esmaeil Najar Daronkolae presented to the people whom he interviews regarding Pam Gems' career. Inscribed on the trophy: "I have such reverenance for writers who are true explorers, who break from and content, who have that generosity which breeds vitality."