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| Claudia Haas has devoted twenty years to writing plays for youth and young performers. 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. The Fisherman and His Wife was the winner of the 2008-09 Anna Zornio Memorial Playwriting Contest and the 2010 Prince George's Children's Theatre Contest. Other honors include the Jackie White Memorial Play Writing Contest, the Marilyn Hall Awards, and the Nantucket Short Play Contest. Her plays have seen over 700 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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| George Halitzka is a writer and theater educator based in Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Halitzka's one-act and ten-minute plays have been published by Lillenas Drama, Contemporary Drama Service, and Drama Ministry. Mr. Halitzka's scripts have been recognized multiple times by the Christian in Theatre Arts National Play Writing Contest. His one-act Happily Ever After is published by Playscripts, Inc. and has been produced as far away as China. Visit him online at www.dramabygeorge.com |
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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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| Philip Hall's plays have been produced at Washington's Kennedy Center, Utah's Sundance Children's Theatre, Louisville's Stage One, and Silicon Valley's California Theatre Center. His musical The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been performed internationally, and he is the co-author of the musicals Swamp Witch and Children of the Day. |
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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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| Wendy Hammond's plays have been produced by New York City theatres (including Soho Rep, Second Stage, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art), and by regional theaters (including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf, S.L.A.C., Charlotte Rep, Purple Rose, and People's Light & Theatre Co.). Her plays have also been produced internationally in cities including London, Singapore and Melbourne. Her works include Absence, Julie Johnson, Family Life: Three Brutal Comedies, Jersey City, and The Ghostman. The Hole, produced at the Purple Rose Theatre, was was nominated by the American Theatre Critics Association for Best New American Play. Works in progress include Road Rage: A Love Story, commissioned by the Purple Rose and developed at the O'Neill Center, New River Dramatists, and workshopped at Steppenwolf Theatre.
Ms. Hammond's produced screenplays include Julie Johnson, produced by Shooting Gallery Films, co-written by director Bob Gosse, starring Lili Taylor, Courtney Love and Spalding Gray. The film premiered in the Sundance Film Festival and played in film festivals all over the world winning many awards including Best Feature in the Barcelona Film Festival and an Audience Award in Berlin. Ms. Hammond wrote and directed the short film, Lehi's Wife, through AFI's Directors Workshop for Women, starring James Greene and Kathryn Joosten.
Ms. Hammond is a recipient of an NEA grant, an NYFA grant, a McNight Fellowship and a Drama League Award. She has been invited twice to the Sundance Play Unit, twice to the O'Neill Center, and several times to New River Dramatists. She is a New Dramatists alumnus, holds an MFA from New York University's Dramatic Writing Program and an Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School. She has taught playwriting and screenwriting courses in several universities including the University of Michigan and Brown. She is now on the faculty of NYU's TischAsia School of the Arts in Singapore where she lives with her beloved son. |
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| Joseph Hanreddy served as Artistic Director of the Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1993 to 2010 and previously held the same position for the Madison Repertory Theater and the Ensemble Theater Company in Santa Barbara, California. Throughout his career he has directed and performed in over 200 original and classic works. His recent Off-Broadway production of Moliere's The Misanthrope was nominated for a Lucile Lortel award. In addition to Pride and Prejudice,some of Joseph's stage adaptations include Seven Keys To Slaughter Peak, inspired by the novel by Earl Derr Biggers, George M. Cohan's The Tavern, Pirandello's Six Characters In Search Of An Author, Yes, No, Maybe So and the Milwaukee Rep's long running A Christmas Carol. |
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| Adrien-Alice Hansel is the Director of New Play Development at Actors Theatre, where she heads the Literary Department. She has served as production dramaturg on roughly 45 plays at Actors, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, A Raisin in the Sun, Spunk, 9 Parts of Desire, The Crucible and Underneath the Lintel and the Humana Festival premieres of plays by Craig Wright, Naomi Wallace, Gina Gionfriddo, The Civilians, Charles Mee, Jordan Harrison, Adam Bock, Anne Bogart and SITI Company. She holds an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama, where she served as the Associate Literary Manager of Yale Repertory Theatre, was an Assistant Editor of Theater magazine and dramaturged both classic and new plays. Ms. Hansel is the co-editor of six anthologies of plays from Actors Theatre and serves on the board of the Kentucky Foundation of Women, which promotes social justice by funding feminist art. |
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David Hansen is a 2010 Creative Workforce Fellow, a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture, generously funded by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Plays include solo performances I Hate This: A Play
Without The Baby and And Then You Die (How I Ran a Marathon in 26.2
Years) as well as the Great Lakes Theater's outreach touring productions
On the Dark Side of Twilight and an adaptation of Agatha Christie's The
Mysterious Affair at Styles. Other works include The Lady, The Vampyres, and collaboration on the plays The Gulf and This Vicious
Cabaret. He is Associate Supervisor of the Great Lakes Theater School Residency Program, and GLT Grants Writer. He has been a contributor to
Muse, Angle and Cleveland magazines. He lives in Cleveland Heights. |
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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's play Maple and Vine recently ran Off-Broadway at New
York's Playwrights Horizons and at San Francisco's American
Conservatory Theater after premiering in the 2011 Humana Festival at
Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mr. Harrison’s other plays include Doris to
Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and their Men (Clubbed Thumb),
Act a Lady (2006 Humana Festival), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley
Repertory Theatre), Futura (Portland Center Stage, Theater @ Boston
Court), Kid-Simple (2004 Humana Festival, SPF), The Museum Play
(Washington Ensemble Theatre), Standing on Ceremony (Minetta Lane
Theatre), and Fit for Feet (2003 Humana Festival). His children’s
musical, The Flea and the Professor, won the 2011 Barrymore Award for
Best Production after premiering at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre, and
his grown-up musical, Suprema, was workshopped at the O'Neill Music
Theatre Conference.
Mr. Harrison is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder
Fellowship at Princeton University, a Theater Masters' Innovative
Playwright Award, the Kesselring Prize, the Heideman Award, the Loewe
Award for Musical Theater, Jerome and McKnight Fellowships from The
Playwrights' Center, and a NEA/TCG Playwright-in-Residence Grant.
Maple and Vine and Act A Lady were nominated for GLAAD Media Awards
for Best Production. Mr. Harrison is currently working on commissions for
Playwrights Horizons and South Coast Repertory. A graduate of Stanford
University and the Brown University MFA program, he is an alumnus of
New Dramatists. |
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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, workshopped 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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