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| Patrick Gabridge is the author of numerous produced plays, including Constant State of Panic, Pieces of Whitey, Reading the Mind of God, Blinders, and Hearing Voices. His first novel, Tornado Siren, is published by Behler Publications. Mr. Gabridge is a recipient of the following awards: the Colorado Arts Innovation Award, a Playwriting Fellowship from the Colorado Council on the Arts, first place in the Festival of Emerging American Theatre (Phoenix Theatre), the New American Theatre Festival, the UMBC In10 Competition, SlamBoston, and the Market House Theatre One-Act Play Award. His radio plays have been broadcast on NPR and other stations across the U.S. He co-founded the Chameleon Stage Theatre Company in Denver, the Rhombus playwrights' group in Boston, the online Playwright Marketing Binge, as well as the publication, Market InSight... for Playwrights. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Mr. Gabridge lives in Boston with his wife and two kids. |
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| Fengar Gael's plays and musicals include Soul on Vinyl, Lord Velvet, Opaline, Touch of Rapture, Gift of a Thousand Tongues, and The Orchid Lover. She has had readings and productions at New Jersey Repertory, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, InterAct Theatre of Philadelphia, Seanachai Theatre of Chicago, the Salt Lake Acting Company, the Kitchen Dog Theatre, the Utah Shakespearean Festival, MultiStages, the Abingdon Theatre, the hotInk Series (at the Tisch School of the Arts), the Sundance Institute, and New York Stage and Film Company at Vassar.
Ms. Gael received commissions from South Coast Repertory, the National New Play Network, New Jersey Repertory, the InterAct Theatre of Philadelphia, as well as a playwriting fellowship from the California Arts Council. Her play, Devil Dog Six, was produced by the Moxie Theatre and received the Craig Noel award for Outstanding New Play by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle; The Usher's Ball was showcased at the Collaborative Arts Project 21 in New York; The Cantor's Tale was recently produced at the Hunger Artists Theatre of Fullerton, California. In January 2012, The Gallerist will be produced by the Rorschach Theatre of Washington, D. C. and The Island of No Tomorrows will be produced by MultiStages in New York in October, 2012.
Ms. Gael's plays and paintings can be found on her website: www.fengar.com
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| Mary Gallagher's plays Father Dreams, Little Bird, Chocolate Cake, Buddies, Dog Eat Dog, Love Minus, How To Say Goodbye, De Donde? and Windshook have been published by Dramatists Play Service and Playscripts, Inc. and produced at such theatres as the American Conservatory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Hartford Stage Company, the Alley Theatre, the Main Street Theatre, the Cincinnati Playhouse, and in NYC at the Vineyard Theatre, the American Place Theatre, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Women's Project, HOME, the Provincetown Playhouse and the Public Theatre, as well as in many other countries. De Donde? was first published in American Theatre. Windshook was first published in New Plays from Act's Young Conservatory Vol. I and Best Plays By Women 1996. Some of Ms. Gallagher's short plays are anthologized, including Bedtime, Brother, Sandwich, and earlier versions of Perfect.
Her screenplays for Paramount, MGM, HBO, NBC, CBS, Lifetime and Showtime include Nobody's Child, co-written by Ara Watson and directed by Lee Grant (Writers Guild Award, Emmy for Marlo Thomas); Bonds of Love, starring Treat Williams, (Best TV Movie of the Year, Banff International Television Festival); and The Passion of Ayn Rand, starring Helen Mirren, Peter Fonda and Eric Stoltz, which premiered at Sundance in 1999 and aired on Showtime (Emmy for Mirren, Golden Globe for Fonda). In 2002-3 Ms. Gallagher was a staff writer for JoJo's Circus, a hit stop-action-animation show on the Disney Channel.
Fellowships and honors: fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation on the Arts; an NEA/TCG Residency Grant, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Rosenthal New Play Prize, the Berrilla Kerr Award; three production grants from the New York State Council on the Arts; the Writers Guild Award and the Luminas Award from Women in Film.
For six years, Ms. Gallagher was artistic director of Gypsy, a theatre company in New York's Hudson Valley which created site-specific mask-and-puppet theatre, including Premanjali and the 7 Geese Brothers, Ama, and The Scottish Play. In 1996-7, she directed the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, and she currently teaches playwriting and screenwriting at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of Actors & Writers and an alumna of New Dramatists, where she created and moderated the series, "YOU CAN MAKE A LIFE: Conversations with Playwrights," from 1994-2001.
Current projects include new full-length plays, For Your Love and I Know You're the One. |
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| Paul Gallagher is a writer and editor who has worked for newspapers and magazines in Pennsylvania, Arizona, and North Carolina. Works that have received productions or readings include the one-man show Albert, on cable TV in New York; the drama American Beauty, at New York's Village Gate; The Bharma Dumbs, at Pennsylvania Stage Company, in Allentown, Pennsylvania; and Blood and Bone, on public radio in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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| Genevra Gallo-Bayiates began her theatrical career in the 4th grade as Paddington Bear, which was a smashing success. A graduate of Boston University, she went on to found smallchangeTheatreCo. with fellow BU colleagues and worked as a writer and performer on several inaugural productions. While in Boston, she also choreographed Dancing at Lughnasa for Emerson University and The Bacchae at Open Door Theatre. Upon moving to Chicago, she worked as an actress with American Theatre Company, Bailiwick Repertory, and Court Theatre, and performed Off-Broadway in JoAnne Akalaitis' The Iphigenia Cycle.
Ms. Gallo-Bayiates was a Neo-Futurist ensemble member from 2001 to 2005 and 2010-2011, with additional roles as Web Editor, Education Coordinator, and Artistic Director throughout her time with the
company. She has performed regularly in their late-night hit, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind and also has been involved in the following Neo-Futurist full-length productions: Curious Beautiful (performer); 43 Plays For 43 Presidents (choreographer, co-writer/director, performer); Game/Place/Show (co-writer/director, performer); City Girl! (performer, Minneapolis Fringe); It Came from the Neo-Futurarium II & III (performer); A 60-Minute History of Humankind (movement director, choreographer); CHICAGO! The News Show (co-writer, performer); Inside My Mouth (curator, co-writer, performer); Daredevils! (dance choreographer); Crisis: A Musical Game Show (question writer); Performing Tonight: Liza Minnelli's Daughter (lead choreographer); and 44 Plays for 44 Presidents (lead choreographer).
Her work has been published in This Day: Diaries from American Women (Beyond Words Publishing, Inc.); Neo-Solo: 131 Neo-Futurist Solo Plays (Hope and Nonthings Publishing); 200 More Neo-Futurist Plays (Hope and Nonthings Publishing); and What It Means to Be a Grown-Up (Commonplace Books). She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and colleague, Andy Bayiates, their beautiful daughter, and their two
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| Kate Galvin is currently the Casting Director and Assistant to the Producing Artistic Director at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, where she has also performed and worked as an assistant director. In 2012 she will be directing Proof at the Walnut and on tour. Other directing credits include The Blue Room, The Wind in the Willows and a developmental reading of the new musical The Average Achievers Club. She serves on the board of 11th Hour Theatre Company, now celebrating its 6th year producing new and contemporary musicals in Philadelphia. She is very involved in the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and has worked in various capacities at Roundabout Theatre Company, Theatre at Monmouth and TheatreFest. She holds a Bachelor's of Music in Vocal Performance from NYU and a Master's of Arts in Musical Theatre (Producing) from Goldsmiths, University of London. |
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| Michael John Garces is the Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles. Plays he has written include Los Illegals (Cornerstone), points of departure (INTAR), Acts of Mercy (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), audiovideo (The Directors Project), on edge and the ride (The Humana Festival), and Tostitos (Ensemble Studio Theatre Marathon of One-Act Plays). Recent directing credits include plays at The Walker Art Center and A Contemporary Theatre. Mr. Garces is the recipient of the Princess Grace Statue and the Alan Schneider Directing Award, and is proud to be a resident playwright of New Dramatists. |
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| Anne Garcia-Romero's plays include Earthquake Chica, Mary Peabody In Cuba, Juanita's Statue, and Santa Concepian. Her plays have been developed and produced most notably at the New York Shakespeare Festival / Public Theater, Arielle Tepper Productions' Summer Play Festival (Off-Broadway), The Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Borderlands Theater and South Coast Repertory. She has received commissions from the Public Theater, The Mark Taper Forum, and South Coast Repertory. She has also written for Peninsula Films, Elysian Films and Disney Creative Entertainment. She's been a Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis as well as a MacDowell Colony fellow. She's taught at Cal Arts, UC Santa Barbara, Wesleyan University and Macalester College. Her plays are also published by Broadway Play Publishing and NoPassport Press. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama and is an alumna of New Dramatists. |
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| James Gardiner is a 26-year-old playwright and actor who currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia. Mr. Gardiner wrote the book for Glory Days (music and lyrics by Nick Blaemire), which premiered at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia and opened at the Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway in 2008. As an actor, Mr. Gardiner has performed at The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, and various other theaters in the Washington D.C. area. Mr. Gardiner received his BA in Theatre from the University of Maryland, College Park. |
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| Marcus Gardley is a multiple award-winning poet-playwright who recently won the prestigious 2008 Helen Merrill Award and a Kesselring honor. His most recent play And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi was produced at the Cutting Ball Theater and received both critical acclaim and two sold-out extensions. His Bay Area plays This World in a Woman's Hands (October 2009) and Love is a Dream House in Lorin (March 2007) have been hailed as the best in Bay Area theater. The latter was nominated for the National Critics Steinberg New Play Award. He has had six plays produced including: dance of the holy ghost at Yale Repertory Theatre (now under a commercial Broadway option), (L)imitations of Life at the Empty Space, and like sun fallin' in the mouth at the National Black Theatre Festival. He is the recipient of the San Francisco Bay Area's Gerbode Emerging Playwright Award, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre Award, the Eugene O'Neill Memorial Scholarship, and the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale Drama School and is a member of New Dramatists, The Dramatists Guild and the Lark Play Development Center. Mr. Gardley, a native of West Oakland, was recently chosen as one of 50 writers to watch by the Dramatists Magazine. His play On the Levee recently premiered at Lincoln Center and his other new work, Every Tongue Confess, will open Arena Stage's new theater, directed by Kenny Leon. Mr. Gardley teaches Playwriting and African-American studies at UMass. |
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| Gary Garrison is the Executive Director of the Dramatist Guild of America, the national organization of playwrights, lyricists and composers. Prior to his work at the Guild, Mr. Garrison filled the posts of Artistic Director, Producer and full-time faculty member in the Department of Dramatic Writing at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he produced over forty-five festivals of new work, collaborating with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. Mr. Garrison's plays include Verticals and Horizontals, Storm on Storm, It Belongs on Stage (and Not in My Bed), Crater, Old Soles, Padding The Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds, Gawk, Oh Messiah Me, We Make A Wall, The Big Fat Naked Truth, Scream With Laughter, Smoothness With Cool, Empty Rooms, Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou?, and When A Diva Dreams.
His work has been featured at the Boston Theatre Marathon, Primary Stages, The Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Fourth Unity, Open Door Theatre, African Globe Theatre Company, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Expanded Arts and New York Rep. His recent work as guest artist or master teacher of playwriting involve such institutions as Sewanee Writer's Conference, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, The Inkwell in D.C., Goddard College, Texas Tech University, Southeast Theatre Conference, Northwest Theatre Conference and Boston Playwrights.
He is the author of the critically-acclaimed, The Playwright's Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life, Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten Minute Play, two volumes of Monologues for Men by Men (all Heinemann Press), and the KCACTF's Best Student Plays of 2006.
He is the program coordinator for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center, the former National Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center's American College Theater Festival and recipient of the Outstanding Teacher of Playwriting from the Association of Theatre in Higher Education. |
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| Jim Garvey is an aspiring nomad. At the time you're reading this he may be living in Los Angeles, New York, or Tanzania. (Probably not Tanzania.) Mr. Garvey is an established writer of television, film, and Internet. I'm a Teenager Get Me Out of This Family, is his first venture into playwriting professionally, but his psychic told him to expect a long prosperous love affair with the theater, so expect big things from him. And to think, you'll be able to brag that you put on his first play when only his psychic knew how big he'd be! Kudos to you Friend, kudos to you! |
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| Judy GeBauer has had plays performed at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre, the Long Wharf Theatre, the Irish Arts Center, the Chocolate Bayou Theatre, Modern Muse Theatre Company, and has had four scripts presented at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference. Among her awards are the HBO Writing Award, the Dennis McIntyre Playwriting Award, the Denver Post Ovation Award, and an Innovation Award from the Colorado Federation for the Arts. She has received grants from the W. Alton Jones Foundation, the Steinberg Charitable Trust, and the Denver Women's Press (Grand Citation), and a residency at the Djerassi Artists Colony. Her plays include The Hidden Ones, Bobby Sands, MP, Magician Reversed, The Nip and the Bite, Mrs. Plenty Horses and Every Secret Thing. Her monologues appear in Heinemann Books' From the Road, Baseball Monologues, and Elvis Monologues. Ms. GeBauer was playwright-in-residence at the Denver Center Theatre Company in 1995, and is an alumna of the Denver Center Playwrights Unit. She is a recipient of the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild's Julie Harris Playwriting Award and first prize in the Dubuque Fine Arts One Act Play Festival. |
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| Madeleine George. Madeleine George's plays have been produced or developed at Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, New York Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights' Center/Guthrie Theater, Rude Mechanicals, and Playwrights Horizons, among other places. She collaborated with LightBox on the multimedia play Milk-N-Honey, about democracy and appetite in America, which ran at 3LD in the fall of 2007. Support includes a MacDowell Fellowship, the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, a Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship, and the Jane Chambers Award. Ms. George was a member of the 2007-2008 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, is a founding member of the Obie-Award-winning playwrights' collective 13P, and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. Her play The Most Massive Woman Wins premiered as part of the Young Playwrights Festival at the Public Theater in 1994. |
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| Thomas Gibbons is playwright-in-residence at InterAct Theatre in Philadelphia, which has produced seven of his plays: Pretending to America, 6221, Axis Sally, Black Russian, Bee-luther-hatchee, Permanent Collection, and A House With No Walls. His plays have been seen at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, off-off-Broadway at Blue Heron Theatre, Mixed Blood Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Actors Express, Florida Stage, Unicorn Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Arizona Theatre Company, Center Stage, New Repertory Theatre, Aurora Theatre, and many others. He is the recipient of seven playwriting fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a Roger L. Stevens Award from the Fund for New American Plays, a Barrie and Bernice Stavis Playwriting Award, two Barrymore Awards for outstanding new play, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. |
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| Peter Gil-Sheridan is a multidisciplinary artist whose plays include The Deadly Belles, Everyday I Wake the Fool, Glow, Vanishing Son, and Topsy Turvy Mouse which has been produced by Cherry Lane Theatre, Borderlands, and Gustavus Adolphus, developed at Sundance Institute, New York Theatre Workshop and was named the winner of The Smith Prize from National New Play Network for outstanding political work. Topsy Turvy Mouse is published by Playscripts, Inc. His play, What May Fall, was commissioned by the Guthrie Theatre and was performed in their Dowling Studio in 2009. The play will have a production with Fordham Alumni Theatre Company in July, 2010. Residencies: Jerome Fellowship (Playwright's Center, Minneapolis), A Theatre Group in Silverton, CO (annual), The Millay Colony (Austerlitz, NY) and The Ucross Foundation (Clearmont, Wyoming). Other work with: Lark Theatre, Kennedy Center, NY Fringe Festival, and Prospect Theatre Company. Mr. Gil-Sheridan recently completed a new play, Ritu Comes Home, for the InterAct Theatre 20/20 Commission in Philadelphia. He also directed Dog Act by Liz Duffy Adams at Fordham and History of the Word, an interactive hip-hop/spoken word musical, presented at the Cleveland Playhouse and now on tour across the U.S. He received his MFA from The University of Iowa's Playwright's Workshop and his BA from Fordham University at Lincoln Center where he's been on the faculty since 2005. He is also in his third year as teaching artist for the LEAP Fidelity FutureStage Program where he teaches playwriting to students at three NYC public schools in the Bronx, Bushwick, and Crown Heights. The program culminates with his students performing the winning plays at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. The 2010 event was hosted by Academy Award-winner Hilary Swank. |
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Gina Gionfriddo has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights, a Lucille Lortel Fellowship, and a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship. Her work includes After Ashley (Vineyard Theatre in New York and Actors Theatre of Louisville); U.S. Drag (Clubbed Thumb in New York and Connecticut Rep; published by Smith & Kraus in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002), and Guinevere (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference). |
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| D. Glass -- literary pseudonym for Dmitri Semakin -- was born in 1967. He is a graduate of the Gorky Theatre College (1991) and the Russian Academy of Theatre Art GITIS (1997), and has worked in television in Moscow. As a director and producer he has realized several drama projects, including Mozart & Salieri (International Theatre Project, Edinburgh Fringe 1999), and other productions. His play Amazonia, or Guard #8 was first produced by the Kamchatka Drama & Comedy Theatre Company, and has had great success in Russia and abroad (Edinburgh Fringe 2000, Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival 2001, Gift International Arts Festival, etc.). Mr. Semakin currently works in the advertising business in Moscow. |
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| Rha Goddess is a performing artist and social/political activist. Her work has been internationally featured in several compilations, anthologies, forums and festivals. Ms. Goddess' debut project, Soulah Vibe, received rave industry reviews from Ms. Magazine, The Source, XXL, Interview, etc.. Time Magazine called it "...one of the year's coolest records." As Founder and CEO of Divine Dime Entertainment, Ltd., she was one of the first women in Hip Hop to create, independently market and commercially distribute her own music world wide. In May 2000, Essence Magazine recognized Ms. Goddess as one of 30 Women to Watch in the new millennium. In 2002, BAM's prestigious Next Wave festival's NextNext series, chose her as one of six artists deemed to be influential in the next decade. Her activist work includes Co-founding the Sista II Sista Freedom School for Young Women of Color, and being the former International Spokeswoman for the Universal Zulu Nation. Ms. Goddess has also been an encore featured keynote in the Women & Power Summit at Omega Institute along with Iyanla Vanzant, Eve Ensler, Anita Hill, and Eileen Fisher, Jane Fonda, Alice Walker, Eve Ensler, and Marion Woodman. Ms. Goddess' current projects include being the Founder and Project Director of The Next Wave of Women & Power/"We Got Issues!" and working on a modern trilogy entitled, Meditations With The Goddess. Low, Part I of the Meditations Trilogy, premiered at the 2006 Humana Festival for New American Plays. |
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