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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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| Mary Fengar Gail. Ms. Gail's plays and musicals include Drink Me, Lord Velvet, Opaline, Touch of Rapture, and Gift of a Thousand Tongues. 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, Collaborative Arts Project 21, hotInk Series (at the Tisch School of the Arts), the Lark Theatre, the Sundance Institute, and the New York Stage and Film Company.
She is a recipient of the Arnold Weissberger Award, the Stanley Drama Award, the TheatreFest Playwriting Competition, the National Children's Theatre Festival Award, and the Playwrights First Award. Ms. Gail recently received commissions from South Coast Repertory, the National New Play Network, as well as a playwriting fellowship from the California Arts Council. Her play, The Island Of No Tomorrows was selected to participate at the 2007 International Playwrights Festival at the Warehouse Theatre in England; Devil Dog Six, produced by the Moxie Theatre, received the 2007 Craig Noel award for Outstanding New Play by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle; and The Judas Tree was produced last April by MultiStages of New York. She currently writing the book and lyrics for Soul On Vinyl with the composer Dennis McCarthy, which will be given a reading at New Jersey Repertory this forthcoming fall. |
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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. Several years later, she graduated from Boston University and founded smallchangeTheatreCo. with fellow BU colleagues. 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 was an ensemble member with The Neo-Futurists from 2001-2005, and spent a year as their Artistic Director before moving downstate to pursue a graduate degree and begin a family. Her credits with The Neo-Futurists include Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (regular ensemble member), 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); and Daredevils! (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); and 200 More Neo-Futurist Plays (Hope and Nonthings Publishing). She currently lives in Southern Illinois with her husband, Andy Bayiates, and their daughter, Ariana, and is working toward an M.S.Ed. in Educational Psychology with a specialization in school counseling. |
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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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| 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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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 dramaturge and an award-winning playwright from Tallahassee, Florida. She earned her M.F.A. from the University of Southern California (2004) and her B.A. from Agnes Scott College (2000). Ms. Goldfinger's work has been developed and produced at theaters around the country and in Sydney, Australia. Ms. Goldfinger's writing has won numerous awards including Playwrights Theatre's Nationwide Plays for the 21st Century Competition, the Ohio Independent Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and the Film Industry Network Screenplay Competition.
For more information, visit her website 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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| Robin Goldwasser. Robin "Goldie" Goldwasser is the "Goldwasser" half of the song-writing team Greenberg & Goldwasser, who composed the cult hit rock opera People Are Wrong! Ms. Goldwasser has written, directed and performed in many 24 Hour Plays over the years, including the first experiment in an evening of all-musical 24 Hour Plays. She is the founding member of The Deeply Felt Puppet Theater. For many years, she has contributed her voice as well as her puppetry to the rock band They Might Be Giants. |
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Joseph Goodrich is a writer and actor from Minnesota. His plays have been produced in New York City (Jean Cocteau Repertory, HERE Arts Center, New York Fringe Festival, Six Figures Theatre Company), Los Angeles (Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, Circus Minimus, Theatre of NOTE, Sharon's Farm, and others), San Francisco (SF Fringe Festival), New Orleans (Zeitgeist Center for the Arts), Minneapolis/Saint Paul (Red Eye Collaboration, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Study Cow Productions, and others) and Portland, ME (Portland Stage Company).
His play White Russian is included in The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005 (Craig Lucas, editor; Back Stage Books); Steak Knife Bacchae is included in Padua: Plays from the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival (Padua Hills Publications, distributed by TCG). His poetry has appeared in the Venice West Review, his fiction in Bullet magazine, Shots magazine and Vacant Funhouse e-zine, and he is a contributor to Conducting a Life: Reflections on the Theatre of Maria Irene Fornes (Smith and Kraus). His work runs the gamut from opera libretti (The Art of Eating, music by Jeffrey Lependorf, which received its premiere in Hudson, NY in October 2004) to comic books (Human Interest, written for Marvel Comics' Spider-Man Unlimited series, January 2004). His screenplay Symbiotica was filmed in July-August, 2005 in Indiana.
He is a member of New Dramatists, the Mystery Writers of America, the Screen Actors' Guild and Actors' Equity Association.
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| Jamie Gorski is currently working as a gifted specialist with Orange County schools in North Carolina. Mr. Gorski has over 20 years of theater experience. In May of 2002, he received his BFA in theatre performance from the University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana. He originally comes from Eagle River, Alaska. In his spare time, he enjoys running, singing, acting, teaching, and spending time with his family. Mr. Gorski currently resides in Mebane, North Carolina with his wife, Laura and his daughter, Kaylee. |
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