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Lisa Jean Murphy is an American playwright born in the San Francisco Bay Area and the author of the biographical drama "The Red Priest of Venice" -- a fact-based play inspired by ancient archival documents pertaining to the famous Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi. The story focuses on his meeting with two Mantovan ladies, Paolina Trevisana and Anna Giro, who would ultimately become his long-term companions, and explores the famous composer's relationship with these women and how it correlated to his composing of his famous masterpiece "The Four Seasons". The 6-person show first opened at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco in 2007 and will re-open in August 2014 at the Shelton Theater.

The documents upon which the story is based were discovered in the Venice Archives as recently as 1998, and are over three hundred years old. They give many important clues about the composer's lifestyle and ethics and do much to dispel certain longstanding myths. The play by Lisa Murphy presents these recently discovered facts in a 95-minute 3-act drama.