Monica Tidwell

{{short description|American model (born 1954)}}

{{Infobox Playboy Playmate

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| name = Monica Tidwell

| issue = November 1973

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| birth_place = Shreveport, Louisiana

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1954|1|14|mf=y}}

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=2.5}}

| preceded = Valerie Lane

| succeeded = Christine Maddox

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Monica Tidwell (born January 14, 1954) is an American model. She was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. A red-head, she was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1973 issue; her centerfold was photographed by Dwight Hooker and Bill Frantz. Tidwell was the first Playmate who was younger than the magazine itself: she was 19 at the time of the photo shoot,{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862772/ |title=Monica Tidwell |last=n/a |first=n/a |date=2018-11-04 |website=IMDB |access-date=2018-11-04}} having been born when the second issue of Playboy was on sale.{{Cite web |url=https://insideplayboymagazine.com/magazine/november-1973-playboy-magazine/ |title=Monica Tidwell: November 1973 Playboy Magazine |last=Tomlonson |first=Mark |date=n.d. |website=Inside Playboy Magazine |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105014013/https://insideplayboymagazine.com/magazine/november-1973-playboy-magazine/ |archive-date=5 November 2018 }}

Tidwell was the Primary Producer of the 2008 Off Broadway play Mindgame in New York City.{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989885.html?categoryid=15&cs=1|title=Ken Russell to direct 'Mindgame'|last=Cox|first=Gordon|date=July 31, 2008|work=Variety|access-date=29 September 2010}} Written by Anthony Horowitz (writer of Foyle's War), the play was directed by British film director Ken Russell and starred Keith Carradine, Lee Godart and Kathleen McNenny.{{cite news|url=http://www.playbill.com/news/article/120008.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201072643/http://www.playbill.com/news/article/120008.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 February 2013|title=Russell to Direct Carradine in Off-Broadway's Mindgame|last=Gans|first=Andrew|date=1 August 2008|work=Playbill|access-date=29 September 2010}}