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| Claudia Haas has devoted fifteen years to writing large-cast plays and adapting classics for teenagers. She was a finalist and winner in the 2007 Bonderman Symposium for her play, By Candlelight, a tale of young people coping with 9/11. By Candlelight also received first place honors in the 2007 Aurand Harris Playwriting Contest. Ms. Haas is the recipient of awards from the Jackie White Memorial Play Writing Contest (two first place finishes in addition to various others), the Marilyn Hall Awards, and the Nantucket Short Play Contest. Her plays have seen over 300 productions in every state in the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Haas lives in White Bear Lake, Minnesota with a family that remains forgiving during deadlines. |
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| Alan Haehnel teaches high school English and Theater at Hanover High School in Hanover, New Hampshire. He has been involved in theater since college as an actor, director, and writer. His credits include numerous published plays and monologues that have been performed worldwide, the Vermont Playwright's Award in 1993, and several Vermont State Championships for his original one-acts entered in the Vermont One-Act Play Festivals. He lives in Hartford Village with his wife and three children. |
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| Jerome Hairston. Originally from Yorktown, Virginia, Jerome Hairston received his BA from James Madison University and is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA playwriting program. His play a.m. Sunday premiered in the 26th Annual Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and was later produced at Centerstage in Baltimore, Maryland. His other plays include L'Eboueur Sleeps Tonight, Forty Minute Finish, and Method Skin. His work has been developed and presented at theaters such as Playwrights Horizons, the Atlantic Theater Company, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, the Underwood Theater, New York Stage and Film, as well as the Shenandoah Playwrights Retreat, the Sundance Theater Lab, and the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He was featured twice in the Young Playwrights Festival in New York (1993 and 1994), and was also the recipient of the 1998 Kennedy Center/American College Theater Festival's National Student Playwriting Award. He has received commissions from The Kennedy Center, Centerstage Baltimore, the Guthrie Theater, The Public Theatre/NYSF, and the Manhattan Theatre Club, where he was a 2001 playwriting fellow. He is also developing several film and television projects. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, Cindy. |
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| Jennifer Haley is a Los Angeles-based playwright whose plays include Gingerbread House, Dreampuffs of War, and The Butcher's Daughter. Her work has been presented and developed at Actors Theatre of Louisville (Humana Festival of New American Plays), Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre in Providence, PlayPenn in Philadelphia, and Refraction Arts at the Blue Theatre in Austin. Ms. Haley holds an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Brown University, where she was awarded the Joelson Prize in Creative Writing the Weston Award for Drama. She was a 2008 resident of the MacDowell Colony and Millay Colony for the Arts. |
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Barry Hall is a playwright and director based in Manhattan, though he has spent much of the last three years in Asia. His plays, including A Trois, Wildlife, Here and Now, Eclipse, and Whither Batavia? have been produced around the U.S. and in Japan, France, Belgium, and Canada. He studied theater at Sarah Lawrence College and has received fellowships from the Japan Foundation and the Edward F. Albee Foundation. Mr. Hall's current writing project is a play incorporating digital video, and his upcoming directing project is the Asian premier of Edward Albee's The Goat, to be produced in Tokyo in May 2004 by Seinendan. He has taught at Aletheia University and Chengchi National University in Taipei, Taiwan; Gyongsan National University in Jinju, Korea; and Obirin University in Tokyo, Japan. |
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| Kristina Halvorson is the author of several ten-minute plays, including One Hundred Women and Now We're Really Getting Somewhere. Her plays have been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Guthrie Theater Lab, and at other theaters and educational institutions around the world. Her work has been published by Samuel French (10-Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville, Volume III), Smith & Kraus (30 10-Minute Plays for 3 Actors), Heinemann (More Monologues for Women by Women), Meriwether (Millennium Monologues), and Playscripts, Inc. (A Bright, Clear Sky; Now We're Really Getting Somewhere). Ms. Halvorson has participated in educational theater projects with the Educational Theatre Association, the Guthrie Theater, the Playwrights' Center and the Northfield Arts Guild. |
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| Christina Ham. Ms. Ham's plays have been produced and developed with Mark Taper Forum, The Guthrie Theater, The Goodman Theater, the Summer Play Festival, The Fountain Theater, Los Angeles Theater Center, The Falcon Theater, The Illusion Theater, Stepping Stone Theater, A.S.K. Theater Projects, and the Stella Adler Theater among others. Ms. Ham is the recipient of a 2005 Marianne Murphy Women & Philanthropy Award in Playwriting, a 2005-06 Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, and a 2006 MacDowell Colony residency. She has been commissioned by The Guthrie Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Stepping Stone Theater. Her full-length plays include Tumbleweeds, 626 Broadway, After Adam, A Wive's Tale, Cul de Sac, Crawlspace, and Mad Cow. A monologue from her play Tumbleweeds is published by Heinemann, and she is also published by Playscripts Inc. Ms. Ham is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America. |
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| Daniel Hamilton was born in Taos, New Mexico, and began writing at a very young age. His first play, Love Stories During the Armageddon of a Citrus Fruit, is the winner of several local and national awards. He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he is a film student at the University of Southern California, and hopes that somehow he will be able to retain some semblance of a soul in the wilds of Hollywood. |
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| Sarah Hammond grew up in Hong Kong, Belgium, and South Carolina. Honors include Actors Theatre of Louisville's Heideman Award, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, a commission from South Coast Rep, and a residency at the Royal National Theatre. Her work has been seen onstage at Trustus Theatre, City Theatre (Miami), Live Girls (Seattle), Tulsa New Works for Women, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Australia's Interplay Festival, and in print in Ten-Minute Plays for 2 Actors: The Best of 2004. A graduate of the University of South Carolina (BA) and the University of Iowa (MFA), she has taught playwriting at both schools. Now based in Brooklyn, she is a resident playwright at New Dramatists. |
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Bryan Harnetiaux has been a Playwright-in-Residence at Spokane Civic Theatre in Spokane, Washington, since 1982. Thirteen of his plays have been published, and his short play The Lemonade Stand is
anthologized in More One Act Plays for Acting Students (Meriwether Publishing Ltd., 2003). These works include commissioned stage adaptations of Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Killers, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Long Walk to Forever, all published by The Dramatic Publishing Company.
Mr. Harnetiaux's work has been performed throughout the United States. His play National Pastime, about the breaking of the color line in major league baseball in 1947, has received nine productions, including professional productions at Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasadena, California and at Stamford Theatre Works in Stamford, Connecticut. National Pastime is published by Playscripts, Inc., as is 215 Montague Street, a short play drawn from National Pastime, recounting the historic first meeting between Branch Rickey and Jackie Robinson.
The one-man play York, written in collaboration with actor David Casteal, which tells the story of the only Black man on the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803-06) has been performed throughout the country, including a limited engagement at 78th Street Theatre Lab in New York City. (He wrote the book for York and David developed the Djembe drum rhythms used to tell the story.) Mr. Harnetiaux's play Vesta recently completed an equity-waiver professional production at Seattle's Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC) in February, 2008, with Megan Cole in the title role. His full-length play, Dusk, premiered at Spokane Civic Theatre in Spring, 2007.
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. |
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| Jordan Harrison grew up on an island near Seattle.
His play Doris to Darlene recently premiered at Playwrights Horizons and his play Amazons and Their Men was produced Off-Broadway by Clubbed Thumb. Mr. Harrison's plays Act a Lady, Kid-Simple, and Fit For Feet premiered in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and have been produced all over the country. His play Finn in the Underworld had its world premiere at Berkeley Rep under the direction of Les Waters. Mr. Harrison's work has also been produced or developed at Actor's Express, American Theater Company, Ars Nova, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NYTW, Perishable Theatre, PlayLabs, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Soho Rep, SPF, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Mr. Harrison is the recipient of the Kesselring Fellowship, the Heideman Award, a Theater Masters' Innovative Playwright Award, two Jerome Fellowships and a McKnight Grant from The Playwrights' Center, a Lucille Lortel Fellowship, and a NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence Grant with The Empty Space Theatre. He has received commissions from Arden Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep/Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cypress Films, Guthrie Theater/Children's Theatre Company, Playwrights Horizons, and South Coast Rep. His plays are published by Playscripts, Inc., Samuel French, Smith and Kraus, and Heinemann.
A graduate of the Brown University MFA Playwriting program, Mr. Harrison is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and an Associate Artist with The Civilians. He has taught playwriting at Brown, The Playwrights' Center, and SUNY Purchase. With Sally Oswald, he edits Play A Journal of Plays, dedicated to reinventing the life of plays on the page. |
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Karen Hartman is an award-winning playwright and librettist whose work has been supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, the N.E.A., the Helen Merrill Foundation, a Daryl Roth "Creative Spirit" Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship to Jerusalem, a New Dramatists residency, and Core Membership at the Playwrights Center. Her plays, Goliath, Donna Wants, Gum, Going Gone, Anatomy 1968, Troy Women, ALICE: Tales of a Curious Girl, Leah's Train and others have been commissioned and/or staged by dozens of theaters including the Women's Project, NAATCO (National Asian-American Theater Company), McCarter Theater, ACT in San Francisco, Center Stage, the Magic Theater, and Dallas Theater Center, and are published by TCG, DPS, Backstage Books, NoPassport Press, and Playscripts, Inc. Recent projects include Goldie, Max, and Milk, a comedy with readings at Lincoln Center, New Dramatists, the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, and the Playwrights Center; and the musical book for A Sea Change, score by AnnMarie Milazzo, workshoped in 2009, directed by Leigh Silverman. NoPassport Press will publish Girl Under Grain in February, 2010. She holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She has taught playwriting in a wide range of settings, including four years at the Yale School of Drama and currently leads independent writing workshops in New York. |
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| Jeffrey Hatcher. Broadway: Never Gonna Dance (book). Off-Broadway: Three Viewings and A Picasso at Manhattan Theatre Club; Scotland Road and The Turn of the Screw at Primary Stages; Tuesdays with Morrie (with Mitch Albom) at The Minetta Lane; Murder by Poe, The Turn of the Screw, and The Spy at The Acting Company; Neddy at American Place; and Fellow Travelers at Manhattan Punchline. Other Plays/Theaters: Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Mrs. Mannerly, Murderers, Mercy of a Storm, Smash, Armadale, Korczak's Children, To Fool the Eye, The Falls, A Piece of the Rope, All the Way with LBJ, The Government Inspector, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and others at The Guthrie, Old Globe, Yale Rep, The Geffen, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Arizona Theater Company, San Jose Rep, The Empty Space, Indiana Rep, Children's Theater Company, History Theater, Madison Rep, Intiman, Illusion, Denver Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Actors Theater of Louisville, Philadelphia Theater Company, Asolo, City Theater, Studio Arena and dozens more in the U.S. and abroad. Film/ TV: Stage Beauty, Casanova, The Duchess, and episodes of Columbo. Grants/Awards: NEA, TCG, Lila Wallace Fund, Rosenthal New Play Prize, Frankel Award, Charles MacArthur Fellowship Award, McKnight Foundation, Jerome Foundation, and Barrymore Award Best New Play. He is a member and/or alumnus of The Playwrights Center, the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild, and New Dramatists. |
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| Todd Hatlem began his theatrical career in 1974 as "Bud" in his high school's production of Mr. Barry's Etchings. Since then, he has continued to act on-stage or volunteer behind the scenes at a number of community theatres. In 1996, he was awarded "Volunteer of the Year" by The Playhouse Theatre of Rocky Mount, North Carolina for his work during the 1995-6 season. Although he has held nearly every production position over the years, this adaptation of Margery William's story The Velveteen Rabbit represents his first adaptation and directorial debut. |
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| Ira Hauptman is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. His plays include Private Messiah at the Audrey Skirball-Kenis Theatre and at Moving Arts, both in Los Angeles; Monument Valley, read by A.S.K. Theatre Projects; Cinema of the Year Zero at the Manhattan Theatre Club; Walkman and The Fall of Entyrondelphiacocomworld, both at FirstStage in Hollywood. Mr. Hauptman has written for Partisan Review, The New Republic, Parabasis and other magazines. He teaches at Queens College. |
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| Bradley Hayward grew up in the small Canadian town of Oxbow, Saskatchewan, where the overall lack of things to do left him plenty of time to write his first play. Since that time, he has written more than 30 plays, and has been produced in over 20 countries around the world (Germany, Spain, Italy, Australia, Norway, China, and Japan to name a few). Two of his short plays, The Yogurt Connection and The Sexual Conspiracy, have been produced Off-Broadway. His one-acts geared toward high school students have been presented at Thespian festivals across the United States and Canada. He currently lives in California. |
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| Ann Marie Healy. Ann Marie Healy's play Dearest Eugenia Haggis received a workshop production with Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks 2005 as well as a development reading with The Cape Cod Theater Project. Her two latest plays (When He Gets That Way and Have You Seen Steve Steven) were recently developed through the support of Soho Rep and MCC's Playwrights Coalition. Now That's What I Call A Storm was produced by Edge Theater Company last spring. Somewhere Someplace Else was produced in 2003 with Clubbed Thumb in New York and with Frontera/Hyde Park in Austin (winner of two 2002-2003 Austin Critics Table Awards).
Her writing is published through Playscripts, Inc., Samuel French, in various Smith & Kraus anthologies, and in The Kenyon Review. She is a five-time finalist for Actors Theater of Louisville's Heideman Short Play Award and a finalist for The Perishable Theater's International Women's Playwriting Festival. She is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb; a member of MCC's Playwrights Coalition; a member of 13P; a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab; and a writing fellow at New River Dramatists in North Carolina. She was recently awarded a NYSCA commission for her new play entitled The Story Of Minnie Willet. |
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Brendan Healy lives in Seattle where he writes plays and fiction. His plays have been performed across the country in such places as Chicago, Florida, California, Louisville, Connecticut, and Seattle. Mr. Healy was the 2004 recipient of the Heideman Award for his short play picnic (pik'nik): v.i. Full-length plays include The Secret Recordings of Lenin to His Lost Love, Relative We or Loneliness Built the Bomb or How Einstein Wrote Hamlet, and Emerald and the Lovesong of the Dead Fishermen. |
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| Jim Helsinger is the playwright of Robinson Crusoe, Frankenstein, The Modern Prometheus, Dracula: The Journal of Jonathan Harker, A Christmas Carol in Five Parts, and The Trial of Joan the Maid. His plays have been produced at Orlando Shakespeare Theater, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Repertory Theatre, Cape May Stage, and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. He is also an actor and director and serves as the Artistic Director of the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in partnership with UCF. He resides in Orlando, Florida with his wife and two children. |
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Elizabeth Hemmerdinger earned her MFA in dramatic writing in 2003 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she won the Harry Kondoleon playwriting prize for her body of work. Her play We Can Do It! won the Goldberg Prize. The same year We Can Do It! had a staged reading at Twelve Miles West Theatre in New Jersey, directed by Robert Cioffi. In January 2004, directed by Isaac Robert Hurwitz, the play was presented as an equity workshop by chashama in New York City.
Now We Can Do It! is being adapted as a musical, Dupsky Does It!, by Ms. Hemmerdinger in collaboration with Anne de Mare. Larry Gatlin, of The Gatlin Brothers, is writing the music and lyrics. The new piece was workshopped in July, 2009, at the Southampton Writer's Conference under the auspices of Craig Lucas, Emma Walton and Steven Hamilton and Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Star Dust (now Squall), starring Joan Van Ark and Vanessa Marshall, ran at the Tiffany Theatre in Los Angeles under the direction of Ron Link. Squall was a winner of the U.S. West Theatre festival at the Denver Center. A ten-minute play, Rug Rage, won the regional KC/ACTF regional competition in 2002, and was one of ten plays presented at the Kennedy Center in June of that year. This production of Rug Rage and Stageworks' mounting of Road Rage inspired a larger cycle of Rage Plays. Rug Rage is also the winner of the Speaking Ring Theatre's Vitality Playwriting contest, which awarded it a full production in 2003. In July 2004, Pulse Ensemble produced The Pier Group and Rug Rage, and in March 2005, Theatre Studio Inc. presented Rug Rage.
Ms. Hemmerdinger has taught literacy at the Bedford Hills Correctional Center, has served as a panelist and mentor at the Vassar College Drama and Film Conference, and sits on the Deans Council of the Tisch School of the Arts. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Women's Voices For Change and a contributor to its website www.womensvoicesforchange.org. Ms. Hemmerdinger is particularly proud to be a founding board member of Dancing Dreams, which offers girls with severe physical disabilities the chance to dance. |
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