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Laura Abbott is a native Vermonter who graduated from Milton Jr./Sr. High School in June 2007. Her play, Trapped, has been performed at a regional one-act festival in St. Johnsbury as well as at a Vermont state one-act festival in Rutland. With Trapped, she went on to be one of the top 20 finalists in Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Festival (2007). She is currently working towards her B.A. in Drama at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York. Her college credits include: Ensemble member, The Vagina Monologues; Assistant director, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead; and Amanda, Dying to Be Thin. An Active Minds production in liaison with playwright, Linda Carson, Dying to Be Thin was split into eight separate, gender-neutral monologues and was performed in order to heighten the awareness of bulimia and other eating disorders. Ms. Abbott continues to write; she will be directing her new play, "The Memory Project" (working title) through IC Players. The show, about a family coping with death and memory loss, will be staged at Ithaca College in early December 2008. |
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Sean Abley is one of the founding members of the Factory Theater in Chicago. While there, he adapted the films Corpse Grinders, Reefer Madness, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians for the stage, and wrote the original plays Bitches, Attack of the Killer Bs, and Nuclear Family. He also contributed to the ensemble-created works Hooray!, Second City Didn't Want Us..., and P, a comedy adaptation of the "P" volume of the encyclopedia.
Commissioned and published works include the new musicals Welcome to the Afterlife! and Horror High: The Musical, and The Adventures of Rose Red (Snow White's Less-Famous Sister), Dr. Frankincense and the Christmas Monster, Bad Substitute, We Wish You a Marry Spendmas!, Historically Bad First Dates, Two-Faced: a Tragedy...Sort Of, Camp Killspree, Confessions of a Male Pin-up, The RISE of the House of Usher, Dracula's Daughters: A Family Comedy, Horror High, Elevator Games, and Double Trouble on the Prairie. He contributed to the collections Exposed! Eight 10-Minute Tales About What Really Happened! and What Would Happen If...? Six 10-Minute Tales of Improbability. His scripts are available through Playscripts, Brooklyn Publishers, Eldridge Plays and Musicals, and Next Stage Press. He recently launched Plays To Order (www.playstoorder.com), a service to create new plays for high school and community groups based on their specific needs -- cast size, themes, length, etc.
As a screenwriter for both TV and film, Mr. Abley has written for the shows So Weird (Disney Channel), Sabrina the Animated Series (ABC), Digimon and Mega Babies (both Fox Family) as well as several pilots including Bench Pressly, the World's Strongest Private Dick starring Bruce Campbell and Tim Curry. His produced screenplays include Rope Burn, Socket, and all the video material for Rip Torn in the Men In Black: Alien Attack park attraction at Universal Studios, Florida.
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| Emily Ackerman is a playwright and actor based in NYC. Her first play (co-authored with KJ Sanchez) ReEntry, is based on interviews with members of the Marine Corps and was commissioned by Two River Theater Company. ReEntry received critical acclaim both at Two River in 2009 and at Urban Stages, NYC, where it received a production in 2010. Ms. Ackerman is also a member of The Civilians, an Obie award winning company that specializes in documentary work. With The Civilians: This Beautiful City (Original Collaborator/Performer; Colorado Springs, ATL/Humana Festival 2008, Studio Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Vineyard Theatre), Gone Missing (Barrow Street Theatre, Off-Broadway Cast Album, Actor's Theatre of Louisville), and developmental workshops of The Great Immensity, and Shadow of Himself. Other collaborative writing/performance work includes The Charlotte Cushman Project, with The Laramie Project head writer Leigh Fondakowski (workshop co-produced by Tectonic Theatre Project and About Face Theatre), and Four Short Plays, Four Big Ideas with KJ Sanchez (commissioned by Grant Makers in the Arts for the Council on Foundations National Conference). As a performer, Ms. Ackerman has performed in several theaters across the country such as Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Seattle Repertory Theater, Actor's Theater of Louisville, and Center Theatre Group. |
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| Rob Ackerman's credits include Tabletop (Drama Desk Award winner for Best Ensemble Performance), Disconnect (The Working Theater, Classic Stage Company), and Icarus of Ohio (hotINK 2007, Tisch School of the Arts Mainstage 2008). His latest play, Volleygirls, was commissioned by ACT in San Francisco and premiered there in March 2009. His first play, Origin of the Species, became an award-winning feature film starring Amanda Peet. Mr. Ackerman has had residencies at Yaddo, the Lark Play Development Center, and Flux Theatre Ensemble. He also works as a prop master on commercials, films, and Saturday Night Live, for which he recently helped to make "Obama Cool," "Whopper Virgins," and "Chewable Pampers." Mr. Ackerman was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio, majored in theater and Spanish at Middlebury College, and earned an M.F.A. in directing from Northwestern University. He and his wife, author Carol Weston, live in Manhattan with their two daughters. |
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| Joan Ackermann is co-founder and Artistic Director of Mixed Company theatre in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, now in its twenty-third year. Her plays include Zara Spook and Other Lures, Stanton's Garage, The Batting Cage, Don't Ride the Clutch, Bed and Breakfast, Rescuing Greenland, A Knight at the Theatre, My New York Hit, Back Story, Off the Map, Marcus is Walking, and Isabella: a Young Physician's Primer on the Perils of Love, a musical for which she wrote the music and lyrics. She adapted Off the Map into a screenplay directed by Campbell Scott and starring Joan Allen and Sam Elliot. Her plays have been produced at the Vineyard Theatre, the Guthrie Theater, Circle Rep, the George Street Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Shakespeare & Company, the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Mark Taper Forum, and the Atlantic Theatre Company. |
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| Jeffrey Adams began his creative life as a mystery novelist, but shortly after receiving his umpteenth rejection slip, he moved to the stage and received his first production credit with Murder in Bogart's Shadow in 1995. Since then, he has written over twenty full-length plays, one-acts, and plays for children, with numerous productions all over the U.S. and England. Mr. Adams also writes and produces radio drama. His internet radio show Imagination-X won the 2003 Silver Ogle Award for excellence in fantasy audio. Mr. Adams lives in Western Oregon with his librarian wife, Diane, and their two children. |
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Liz Duffy Adams is a New Dramatists alumna (2001-2008) and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award, a Will Glickman Playwright Award, a Frederick Loewe Award in Music Theatre, a Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award, and a commission from Children's Theater Company, Minneapolis. Her work has been written, produced, or developed at the Humana Festival, The Women's Project, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Syracuse Stage, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, New Georges, Shotgun Players, Moxie Theater, Clubbed Thumb, and Crowded Fire Theater, among other places. Publications include Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies from Heinemann and Smith & Kraus, and several plays published by Playscripts, Inc. Ms. Adams was profiled in American Theatre magazine's December 2004 issue. BFA: NYU's Experimental Theater Wing; MFA: Yale School of Drama. |
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Jo Adamson has had one-act plays performed in Washington, Oregon, California, Florida, and Canada. Several of her plays have appeared on cable television, including the KOMO Eight Decade Consortium that included an excerpt of a verse play, Bound in Shallows. Ms. Adamson is listed in Women in the American Theatre, by Helen Krich Chinoy and Linda Walsh Jenkins. She was the Kind, and won The James Sunwall Prize for new comedy at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre, in Gainesville, Florida.
Her plays have been excerpted in the following Smith & Kraus anthologies: Transformation Scene in The Best Stage Scenes of 1996; Doppelganger in The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1996; The Wax Cradle and Dialogue of Self & Soul in The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1997; A Body Not Greatly Changed in The Best Stage Scenes of 1997, and in The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1997; and Teotwawki in The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2000. Doppelganger is also excerpted in Even More Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann Books, 2001). The Wax Cradle, a full-length play about Louisa May Alcott, is available from Drama Source. Transformation Scene is also included in Singular Voices: Monologues from the International Centre for Women Playwrights, and Teotwawki, is included in One on One The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century, Applause Books, 2007.
Ms. Adamson is also a published short story, article, and poetry writer. Twice her poetry was accepted for the Poetry Bus Project in Seattle, Washington. She lives
(happily) in Maple Valley, Washington with her spouse and Persian cat. |
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| Keith Josef Adkins. Keith Josef Adkins' plays include Farewell Miss Cotton (Black Dahlia Theater February 2006), Crossing America (Mark Taper's New Works Festival 2005), Wilberforce (National Black Theater Festival 2005, Cleveland Public Theatre New Plays Festival, Hartford Stage New Voices), The Patron Saint of Peanuts (Alabama Shakespeare Festival's Southern Writer's Project 2004), Salt on Sugar Hill (Mark Taper's New Works Festival 2003), Sweet Home (Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2003), Cobra Neck (Humana Festival 2003), Hollis Mugley's Only Wish + 2 (National Black Theatre Festival 2003, Cleveland Public Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, HERE), On the Hills of Black America (Imua Theatre Company/HERE, Intersection for the Arts, Stanford University), and Play (The Kraine Theater/NYC 2004). Honors include: Alliance Theater's August Wilsom Memorial Commission, Mark Taper Forum's Richard Sherwood Distinguished Emerging Theater Artist Award, two Best Play Awards at the Cleveland Public Theatre New Plays Festival (Wilberforce and On the Hills of Black America), a Van Lier Fellowship (New York Theater Workshop), and an EST/Sloan Science Foundation playwriting grant. |
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| Aravind Enrique Adyanthaya is the founding artistic director of Casa Cruz de la Luna, one of Puerto Rico's leading experimental theatres. His plays have been presented by Red Eye Collaboration, Intermedia Arts, Pregones Theater, and the Public Theater. Mr. Adyanthaya has been a recipient of a Jerome National Fellowship and a McKnight Advancement Grant from the Playwrights' Center. His book of short stories, Lajas, was recently published by Isla Negra Editores (San Juan). |
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| Derek Ahonen is the resident playwright of The Amoralists Theatre Company in NYC. He studied theater at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC. He grew up in Chicago and is the author of the full-length plays Happy In The Poorhouse, The Pied Pipers of The Lower East Side, Amerissiah, Pokin' the Bears in a Zoo, Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter, While Chasing The Fantastic..., and Venus Sensation and The Pope. |
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| Dan Aibel. Dan Aibel's plays have been developed and/or produced by The New Group, Syracuse Stage, Flashpoint Theatre Co., and at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. His full-length Lapses, a winner of the Eileen Heckart Drama Prize, enjoyed a critically-acclaimed premiere run at the Detroit Repertory Theatre in May and June 2007. He lives in New York City. |
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| Keith Aisner. Though he has been involved with theater for the past few years as an actor, Asylum is Keith Aisner's first play. He currently lives on a small island in Maine with his wife and son. He has recently completed writing a book called Unopened Book. |
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| David Alberts is a West Coast actor, director, educator, and writer. In addition to A Christmas Carol: The Radio Show, his plays include Death By Arrangement, Pandora (children's play), Princess of the Stars (children's play), Actor Larry Parks Is Dead (co-authored with Joel Rainey), Woyzeck's Dream (adaptation of Woyzeck by Georg Buchner), and Poor Yorick's Mermaid Tavern Revue. Dr. Alberts has directed over 40 productions of plays and musicals, including original plays, college/university productions, dinner theatre, summer stock, community theatre, professional, off-Broadway, and touring productions.
Dr. Alberts is a former university theatre instructor and Chair of Region VIII-North National Playwriting Awards Committee of the American College Theatre Festival. He is the author of Pantomime: Elements and Exercises, Talking About Mime, Rehearsal Management for Directors, and The Expressive Body: Physical Characterization for the Actor. He received the Founders Award from the International Thespian Society for his contribution to theatre education, a Directing Award from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival, and a San Diego Book Award. |
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| Robert Alexander is the author of 29 plays, including Servant of the People, I Ain't Yo' Uncle, A Preface to the Alien Garden, and The Last Orbit of Billy Mars. His plays have been produced by Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, the Mark Taper Forum, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Hartford Stage, San Diego Repertory Company, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mr. Alexander has received grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the National Endowment for the Arts. He has a B.A. from Oberlin College, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa where he was a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow. |
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| Zakiyyah Alexander is a writer and actor. She is the author of: 10 Things to Do Before I Die (Second Stage Uptown); Sick? (Summer Play Festival); The Etymology of Bird (Hip Hop Theater Festival, Providence Black Repertory Theatre); Blurring Shine (Market Theater, Johannesburg); Sweet Maladies (Rucker Theatre); Something New, and (900). Her work has been seen and/or developed at: A Contemporary Theater (ACT), Bristol Riverside Theater, Philadelphia Theater Company, The Humana Festival, Penumbra Theater, The Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Rattlestick Theater, Hartford Stage, 24/7 Theater Company, the Hip Hop Theater Festival, Vineyard Theater, the Women's Project, GAle GAtes et. al, La Mama Theatre, Greenwich Street Theater, etc. Awards include: Helen Merrill Emerging Playwriting Award, ACT New Play Award/Lorainne Hanseberry Prize, Stellar Network Award, Theodore Ward Prize, Jackson Phelan Award, Drama League New Directors/New Works, New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, Young Playwrights Inc., etc. Her work is included in the current edition of New Monologues for Women by Women; featured in the book of essays, Girls who like Boys who like Boys; and included in Game On as part of Humana Festival 2008: The Complete Plays. A resident member of New Dramatists; past residencies and fellowships include: EST's Youngblood, the Women's Project Writer's Lab, the Women's Work Project, and the Drama League. She has received commissions from: Second Stage, The Philadelphia Theater Company and the Children's Theater of Minneapolis. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama (MFA in playwriting), she is currently on faculty at Bard College where she teaches undergraduate playwriting. Ms. Alexander is a native New Yorker and was raised in Queens and Brooklyn. |
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| Luis Alfaro is a Chicano writer/performer known for his work in poetry, theatre, short stories, performance and journalism.
He is also a producer/director who spent ten years at the Mark Taper Forum as Associate Producer, Director of New Play Development and co-director of the Latino Theatre Initiative.
His plays and performances include Oedipus el Rey (Magic Theatre, Boston Court Theatre, upcoming at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company) Electricidad (Teatro Vision-San Jose, Mark Taper Forum-Los Angeles, Goodman Theater-Chicago, Borderlands Theatre-Tucson), Downtown (Institute of Contemporary Art-London, XTeresa Performance Space-Mexico City), No Holds Barrio (Goodman Theatre-Chicago), Body of Faith (Cornerstone Theater Company-Los Angeles), Straight as a Line (Primary Stages-NY, Edinburgh Festival-Scotland, Goodman Theatre-Chicago, The National Theatre of Romania [2 year run]) Bitter Homes and Gardens (Latino Chicago, Playwrights Arena-Los Angeles) Ladybird (La Jolla Playhouse) Black Butterfly (Smithsonian Museum, The Kennedy Center-Washington D.C., Mark Taper Forum-Los Angeles) Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner (Taper Too-Los Angeles, Teatro Vista-Chicago).
He is the recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship, popularly known as a "genius grant," awarded to people who have demonstrated expertise and exceptional creativity in their respective fields.
A Rockefeller Fellow and University of California Regents Chair Fellow, he is the only artist to have won two awards in the same year from The Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays. He is also the recipient of awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, Theatre Communications Group and PEN USA, among others.
He is featured in over 25 anthologies, has an award-winning spoken word CD, and was nominated for a local Emmy Award for his short film, Chicanismo.
He is a member of New Dramatists, an associate artist at Playwrights Arena and Cornerstone Theatre Company in Los Angeles.
His play Electricidad was featured on the cover of American Theatre Magazine and the complete script was published in the February 2006 issue.
He teaches at the University of Southern California (Graduate Playwriting Program, Solo Performance, Youth Theater) and California Institute of the Arts (Solo Performance, Actors Studio). |
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| Davis Alianiello was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. He wrote his first play, The Moustache, when he was 16. His plays have been performed at the high school and college level in ten states, Scotland, and Ireland. Mr. Alianiello is currently pursuing a B.A. in English and Theatre Directing from Muhlenberg College, and studied abroad at the University of Edinburgh.
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| Lucy Alibar is a playwright and storyteller from the Florida panhandle. She adapted her play, Juicy and Delicious, into the film
Beasts of the Southern Wild with director Benh Zeitlin. Her plays have been performed internationally as well as in New York. |
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