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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, The Island Of No Tomorrows, was selected to participate at the International Playwrights Festival at the Warehouse Theatre in England and was a finalist at the Repertorio Espanol's Nuestros Voces Competition; 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. This past May, The Usher's Ball, was showcased at the Collaborative Arts Project 21 in New York.
Her plays and paintings can be found on her website: www.fengar.com |
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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; she rejoined the company as an active ensemble member in 2009. 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); and Crisis: A Musical Game Show (question writer).
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); and 200 More Neo-Futurist Plays (Hope and Nonthings Publishing). She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and colleague, Andy Bayiates, their beautiful daughter, and a very loud Boston Terrier. |
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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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| Judy GeBauer has had plays performed at the Philadelphia Festival Theatre, the Long Wharf Theatre, the Irish Arts Center, the Chocolate Bayou Theatre, and the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center. Among her awards are the HBO Writing Award, the Dennis McIntyre Playwriting 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 recently enjoyed a residency at the Djerassi Artists Colony. Her plays include The Hidden Ones, Bobby Sands, MP, Magician Reversed, The Nip and the Bite, and Mrs. Plenty Horses, the last of which was chosen for performance at the O'Neill Theater Center's National Playwrights Conference in July 2001. 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 currently a member of the Playwrights Unit hosted there. 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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| Joe Godfrey. A New York City and Connecticut-based writer, Mr. Godfrey's play, Claptrapp premiered in March 2007 at Emerging Artists Theatre in Manhattan. His play, In Good Faith, with Tony-winner George Grizzard, was presented in 2005 at the National Arts Club in Manhattan and subsequently at the Hudson Showcase Theatre in New York. Massage Therapy was produced in 2003 at the Red Barn Theatre in Key West and named "runner-up" in the Eric Bentley New Play Competition. Bed & Breakfast opened the 2001 Key West Festival and has been produced in Provincetown, MA and Lexington, KY. In December 2001 and 2002, Joe's holiday play, A Queer Carol, was presented at the Duplex Cabaret Theatre in Manhattan and later at Seven Stages Theatre in Atlanta, the New Phoenix Theater in Buffalo, the Emerald Theatre in Memphis, the Alternative Theatre of Phoenix, the Wilton Manor Theater of Ft. Lauderdale, the Suncoast Theatre of St. Petersburg, and the New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Other productions: Communications at The Gallery Players and the National Arts Club; The Call Back at Manhattan Punch Line; Child Support, Village Scene Productions in Montreal (First prize - Playwrights Workshop 2005), Provincetown Playwrights Festival, and Theatre OUTlanta; Flight at the John Houseman in Manhattan. Joe's one-acts, Swan Song, Take Two, Beep, Rabbit Ears, and Wild Spots, among others, have been featured in festivals around the country. He has written for the Westchester County Monthly, Washingtonian, New York Times, Harper's, and is a contributor of humor pieces for the Litchfield County Times. Mr. Godfrey graduated cum laude from Lehigh University, taught English at the Peddie School (NJ), and studied writing with Mark O'Donnell and acting with Mel Blanc, Austin Pendleton, and Uta Hagen. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Playwrights Division of TOSOS II, AEA, AFTRA, and SAG. He lives in Roxbury, CT with his partner Keith Halstead.
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| Jacqueline Goldfinger is a dramaturg and award-winning playwright from Tallahassee, Florida. She holds a M.F.A. in Screen and Television Writing from the University of Southern California. Her plays include Slip/Shot (Nominee 2010 Weissberger Award, National NewBorn Festival, InterAct Theatre Company), The Oath (Off-Off Broadway Maieutic Theatre Works, Penobscot Theatre, Theatre Exile, Ion Theatre), The Burning Season (Winner National Plays for the 21st Century Competition, Philadelphia Dramatists Center, New Village Arts, Blank Theatre Company), and the terrible girls (New York International Fringe Festival, Moxie Theatre Company, Azuka Theatre Company). Her commissioned adaptations include Little Women (North Coast Repertory Theatre), A Christmas Carol (North Coast Repertory Theatre), and The Ghost's Bargain (Playscripts). Her works have been published by Playscripts, Smith & Krauss, and Theatre Communications Group (forthcoming). Visit her online at: www.jacquelinegoldfinger.com. |
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| Aliza Goldstein grew up in Jacksonville, Florida, and attended Stanton College Preparatory School -- a public high school despite its pretentious name -- and was first inspired to write for the school's annual night of student-written one-act plays. During her four years at Stanton, she saw five of her plays performed there, an accomplishment that she is more than a little bit proud of. Izzy Icarus Fell Off the World, her first play to win recognition outside the confines of her high school, was the award recipient of the VSA arts Playwright Discovery program in September, 2007, and was performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. with a professional cast when she was 15 years old. During the summer of 2008, Izzy was also performed at the Blank Theater Young Playwrights Festival in Hollywood, California, and was one of four plays recognized as winners of the International Thespian Festival Playworks competition. In 2009, she returned to the Blank and to Thespian Playworks with a play entitled Other People's Garden Gnomes. She is currently enrolled in New York University's Dramatic Writing Program, class of 2013. When not chained to her computer, she enjoys pondering the meaning of life, taking photographs of garden gnomes in silly locations, and sushi. |
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