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| Stephen LaConte is a writer, actor, and director from the Boston area. His play, The Big Eleven, was a finalist in the Massachusetts High School Drama Festival, and was performed at the John Hancock Hall in Boston. In 2010, The Big Eleven toured Massachusetts-area high schools and theaters. Mr. LaConte is currently pursuing a BFA in Drama from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He enjoys comedy, television, friends, and family. |
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| Richard LaGravenese was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Emerson College and NYU's Experimental Theatre Wing at the Tisch School of the Arts.
He wrote (and sold) his first piece of writing for the Off Broadway musical revue, A My Name is Alice directed by Joan Michlin Silver. His sketch material for a comedy duo act led to an offer by former Saturday Night Live writer Neil Levy, to co-write the script for the 1989 release, Rude Awakening.
Mr. LaGravenese began his solo screenwriting career with his original screenplay The Fisher King, directed by Terry Gilliam. The film went on to earn five Academy Award nominations, including Best Screenplay, winning Best Supporting Actress for Mercedes Ruehl. His subsequent screenwriting credits include: The Ref, (directed by Ted Demme), A Little Princess (directed by Alfonso Cuaron), Unstrung Heroes (directed by Diane Keaton), The Bridges of Madison County (directed by Clint Eastwood), The Mirror Has Two Faces (directed by Barbra Streisand), The Horse Whisperer (directed by Robert Redford), and Beloved (directed by Jonathon Demme).
Mr. LaGravenese directed his original screenplay for the critically acclaimed Living Out Loud starring Danny DeVito, Holly Hunter and Queen Latifah. He joined other directors for the omnibus Paris J'taime with stars Fanny Ardent and Bob Hoskins.
In 2007, Mr. LaGravenese wrote and directed two film releases: Freedom Writers, starring Hilary Swank and Patrick Dempsey (the screenplay was awarded the Humanitas Prize); and P.S. I Love You, with Hilary Swank, Kathy Bates, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Harry Connick Jr., Gina Gershon and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Mr. LaGravenese co-directed and co-produced (with the late Ted Demme), a three part documentary for IFC entitled A Decade Under the Influence, which explores the breakthrough films and filmmakers of the 1970s. The film won the National Board of Review William K. Everson Award for film history and earned an Emmy nomination for best documentary. |
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Joe Landry's plays have been produced across the country and internationally, and include It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Reefer Madness, Vintage Hitchcock: A Live Radio Play, Eve & Co., Beautiful, Hollywood Babylon, and Numb. Mr. Landry attended Playwright's Horizons/NYU, founded Second Guess Theatre Company in Connecticut and is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America. He is currently developing new projects for the stage and screen.
Official website: www.joelandry.com |
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Eric Lane's award-winning plays have been performed in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and China. Plays include Heart of the City and Dancing on Checkers' Grave, which starred Jennifer Aniston. Additional plays: Ride, Times of War, Filming O'Keeffe and Floating. His works are published by Playscripts, Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing, and Applause Books' Best American Short Plays. With Nina Shengold, he has edited 12 contemporary play anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books, earning them a Lambda Literary Award nomination. He wrote and produced the short films First Breath and Cater-Waiter, which he also directed. Both films screened in over 40 cities worldwide. For TV's Ryan's Hope, he received a Writer's Guild Award. Honors include the La MaMa Playwright Award, the Berrilla Kerr Award, and the Adirondack Theatre Festival New Play Commission. Fellowships at Yaddo, VCCA and St. James Cavalier in Malta. He is an honors graduate of Brown University. www.ericlanewrites.com |
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| Preston Lane is a writer and the Founding Artistic Director of Triad Stage. His plays include Julie's Dance and Brother Wolf, Beautiful Star, Bloody Blackbeard and Providence Gap with composer Laurelyn Dossett. Adaptations include A Christmas Carol, Tartuffe, Ghosts, Dracula, Hedda Gabler and Mirandolina. He is the co-coordinator of the MFA Directing Program at UNCG and a graduate of Yale School of Drama. |
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Stacey Lane. Ms. Lane's plays have been performed at hundred of theatres from coast to coast in the U.S., as well as in Canada, England, Australia, and New Zealand and are published with Playscripts, Inc., Dramatic Publishing, Pioneer, Heuer, Next Stage Press, Smith and Kraus, Manhattan Theatre Source, JAC Publishing, Sterling, Poydras Review, Freshwater, Indian Ink, The Quotable, San Luis Obispo Little Theatre, and Scene4 Magazine. She is the recipient of the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant, the Montgomery County Arts & Cultural District's Literary Artist Fellowship, a Charlie Award, and a nominee for "Outstanding Playwriting for a New Script of a Play or Book of a Musical" at the Midtown International Theatre Festival. Lane produces SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day Dayton. |
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| Douglas Langworthy is Literary Manager and Dramaturg at the Denver Center Theatre Company. He held similar positions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the McCarter Theatre. He has translated fifteen plays from the German, including Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechuan, Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening, Hans Henny Jahnn's Medea, Heiner Muller's Quartet and Hamletmachine, and Heinrich von Kleist's The Prince of Homburg, Amphitryon (National Theatre Translation Fund Award), and Penthesilea. His translation of Goethe's Faust was produced in 2006 in New York by Target Margin Theater and the Classic Stage Company. He co-wrote the libretto for The Sandman, an opera based on an E.T.A. Hoffmann story with music by Thomas Cabaniss, directed by David Herskovits. He also co-adapted with Linda Alper and Penny Metropulos the new musical Tracy's Tiger, which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. |
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| Bryan LaPorte is a musician, composer, mathematician, computer programmer, physicist, actor, singer, father, husband, and chess enthusiast living and working in Seattle. In his spare time he writes plays. Verrry slowly. Squatters, his first play, required more than thirty years to complete. |
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David Largman Murray is from the Bay Area and currently lives in Los Angeles. His plays include Robots Vs. Fake Robots, Manimals, Erotic Fiction, My So-Called So-Called Life, Get Up And Go, Bad Memory Mallory, Regina and Ralph are in the Attic, and the musicals Tomorrowland and Bermuda! (with composer Bobby Halvorson).
He is a winner of the Young Playwrights Festival National Playwriting Competition, the Corwin Award for Full Length Plays and Musicals, and The Dilling Yang Fellowship for Playwriting. He is currently working toward his MFA in Writing for Screen and Television at USC.
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| Dan LaRocque has appeared as an actor in resident theatres throughout the United States, including Houston's Alley Theatre, The Old Globe in San Diego, and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. In England he performed at Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph Theatre In The Round, and his New York acting credits include appearances on All My Children and The Guiding Light. Mr. LaRocque is currently Head of Theatre Performance at Auburn University. |
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| Linda LaRocque has authored several award-winning plays in addition to numerous short stories, including many for the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series, Guideposts, and Signs Of the Times. She writes from her home on Lake Michigan. |
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| James Larson. For twenty-eight years Mr. Larson served as Artistic Director of the Omaha Theater Company and first established the education, touring, and multicultural programs that are currently in operation. Mr. Larson was also Associate Professor of Theater at New York University and Director of Educational Theater at NYU. As an actor, Mr. Larson has performed from coast to coast with Megan Terry's Magic Theatre, performing for the athletes in the Olympic Village at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in 1980 and at the Seattle Bumbershoot Festival in 1979. He studied acting with the late Zbigniew Cynkutis, principal actor with Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theater Laboratory. As a playwright, Mr. Larson has had his plays produced around the country and overseas at the Edinburgh Theater Festival, with several productions in New York City at venues such as the Wonderhorse, and he has been the recipient of a Rockefeller grant and a grant from the Advanced Office of Drama Research for his playwriting. Mr. Larson has brought playwrights such as Tony Award-winning Mark Medoff, National Book Award-recipient Robert Bly, Pulitzer Prize-nominee Joe Sutton, and Obie Award-winning, Guggenheim recipient Megan Terry to write for the Omaha Theater Company, and has brought in all the leading writers in the field of Theater for Young Audiences, along with former Artistic Director of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Everett Quinton, and three-time Academy Award-nominee, Debra Winger, and best-selling children's author in the history of publishing, Stan Berenstain, who has written and designed scenery for two shows at the theater, and musical director of the Tony Awards each year, Elliot Lawrence. Mr. Larson has been published in American Theater, in the Drama/Theater Teacher, Stage Directions, and in all the major journals for Educational Theater. He has served on theater review panels for the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation, and has served as a reader for the NEA Playwriting Awards. He was recently Guest Director at the Theatre School at Florida State University. Under his leadership, the Omaha Theater Company received the highest award in its field, the Sara Spencer Artistic Achievement Award, and the Nebraska Governor's Organizational Achievement Award. Mr. Larson received his Ph.D. in Theater from the University of Kansas, where he was the recipient of the Kilty Kane award, the highest award the university can give to a graduating theater student. |
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| David Lassig was born and raised in North Dakota and currently resides in West Fargo. Who Maid Who? is his first script to be published although he has enjoyed writing all his life. He has written many poems, short stories and song lyrics over the years. Mr. Lassig has been gathering bits and pieces for Who Maid Who? for over five years and when he finally sat down to write it, it only took about three weeks. He has been in many plays over the years ranging from musicals to farces to melodramas. A few of his favorite roles have been Kenickie in Grease and Tom in Tom, Dick and Harry. Mr. Lassig has been hooked on farces ever since acting in Run For Your Wife, by Ray Cooney in 1997. He is a board member of the Harwood Prairie Playhouse in West Fargo and has acted in and directed their shows for the past nine years. He has just finished two new scripts and they are both farces. One will have a regional tryout at the Harwood Prairie Playhouse in March of 2010 and the other is being submitted to the Mountain Playhouse for their International Comedy Playwriting Contest in 2010. Mr. Lassig won this same contest in 2009 for Who Maid Who? His most recent endeavor is a theater company he started with his wife, Shanara, called The Bare Stage Theatre. He is working on a dramatic script and hopes to premiere this show at The Bare Stage Theatre in 2010. |
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| Deborah Zoe Laufer's play End Days received the 2007 ATCA/Steinberg New Play Citation. It premiered at Florida Stage, as did The Last Schwartz and The Gulf of Westchester. Samuel French published End Days, The Last Schwartz and Out of Sterno. The Last Schwartz appeared in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2003 and recently enjoyed a six-month run at Zephyr Theatre in Los Angeles. Out of Sterno is receiving its world premiere at Portland Stage Company, Maine. Her other plays, Fortune, Random Acts and Miniatures, have received productions and workshops around the country. Ms. Laufer is a Juilliard graduate, a two-time recipient of the LeCompte du Nouy Award from The Lincoln Center Foundation and a Dramatists Guild member. |
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| Shirley Lauro. Shirley Lauro's All Through the Night garnered a 2006 Jefferson Nomination as Best New Play in Chicago, while Clarence Darrow's Last Trial received a 2005 NEA Access to Excellence Grant and was a 2006 Carbonell Nomination as Best New Play in Florida. On Broadway, Open Admissions received one Tony nomination, two Drama Desk nominations, a Theatre World Award, The Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Award, and was adapted by Ms. Lauro for a CBS TV Special starring Jane Alexander. A Piece of My Heart premiered in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club, and now has enjoyed over 1000 productions here and abroad. It has recently been named "The most enduring play on Vietnam in the nation," by The Vietnam Vets Association.
Among her other plays, The Contest, Pearls on the Moon, Speckled Birds, and Nothing Immediate have been produced internationally in such countries as South Africa, New Zealand, England, Germany, Scotland, Australia, as well as throughout the U.S, in such theaters as Ensemble Studio Theatre, Long Wharf, The Alley, Stamford Theatre Works, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. A Guggenheim Fellow, Ms. Lauro is a Director of the Dramatists Guild Foundation, and a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, PEN, The Actors Studio Playwrights Unit, Writers Guild East, and the Authors Guild. |
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| Ned W. Lauver currently teaches social studies and serves as the head speech and debate coach for Wooster High School (Wayne County, Ohio). He earned his Master's Degree in Education from Baldwin-Wallace College (Berea, Ohio) in 2009. Passionate about the value of high school speech and debate, Mr. Lauver currently serves on both the Akron and Eastern Ohio district committees, and was named to the 12-person Ohio High School Speech League Executive Committee in 2008. He and his wife Nicole reside in Wooster, splitting their time between downtown and the North End in order to keep the locals happy. |
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| Paul Lavrakas is a native of Massachusetts, a graduate of Boston College, and has lived in the Washington, D.C. area for thirty years. He has been commissioned to write 12 plays produced throughout the United States, including three historical plays written for the National Archives. Of his plays for young audiences, three were commissioned by the Kennedy Center, and three by Birmingham Children's Theatre, including White Sails, Dark Seas. He has received the American Alliance for Theatre and Education unpublished play award for Princess and the Pea (1989) and White Sails, Dark Seas (1992). Mr. Lavrakas is primarily employed in public interest politics, as well as writing for conventions/events. He has been Chairman of the Board of the Violence Policy Center since 1989. |
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| Gavin Lawrence is a Minneapolis-based writer and performer. His play, Cut Flowers, garnered five Black Theatre Alliance Awards including the Lorraine Hansberry Award for Best Writing of a Play. Cut Flowers has been produced by the Mixed Blood Theatre, Chicago Theatre Company, Noble Fool Theatre Company, and at Howard University. Other plays produced at Mixed Blood include Salt Fish and Bakes (named Best New Script by the Minneapolis Star Tribune), Blown Away, Outside of the City, and Immigrant Dreams.
Mr. Lawrence has been commissioned twice by the Guthrie Theatre resulting in the production of his play, Bye, Bye Margarita, at the Guthrie Lab, and a workshop production of Lilies in the Valley with the Children's Theatre Company. His film, The Promise, was featured on the PBS series, MNTV. He is also a two-time recipient of Howard University's Distinguished Alumnus Award. |
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| Robert Lawson is a writer, director, composer, screenwriter, and visual artist. Recent work includes: co-author (with director Jonathan Glatzer), co-producer, and 2nd Unit Director for Safety Glass -- an Indie feature with Steve Coogan, Hilary Duff, Molly Shannon, Josh Peck, Max Hoffman, and Olivia Thirlby, slated for 2009 release; co-author (with Glatzer) of Tyler's Gap, a television project produced by Touchstone/ABC and Fox Television -- David Duchovney, Executive Producer; a commission by NGN Productions (Vancouver) for the screenplay Dancing in the Dark, slated for production in 2008; author of Hamlet: 7 rooms, produced by the Emergence Theater Co. in LA (2008).
Other premieres of his writing include: Tabula Rasa, a music/theater piece about autism -- in New York at the Neuro Fest festival of new work; The Architecture of Sight at the Chocolate Factory in Queens; Pandora's Box: a vaudeville in New York; ...but the rain is full of ghosts, a music/theater work he also directed, at the Kennedy Center as part of the National ACTF Festival. Directing premieres include: Elodie Lauten's minimalist opera The Death of Don Juan at Franklin Pierce University, where he is on faculty, the video rendition of which was screened in New York at the 2008 "Op on Screen Festival"; direction and set design for The Magic Flute for the Granite State Opera; direction and text for Kuhfangfederblech at the Festsalle in Vienna, Austria. He conducts an ongoing series of workshops in Narrative Strategies, Framing & Abstraction using digital media at Donau Universität in Krems, Austria for the Dep't of Telecommunications, Information and Media (since 2002). He is the recipient of a Meet the Composer grant for his work on Leonardo's Tank, which premiered at Andy's Summer Playhouse, an experimental theater in New Hampshire where professionals work with young performers, for which he was artistic director from 1995-2007.
His performance texts have been published in American Writing, Poems & Plays and The Northern New England Review. His plays are published by Playscripts, Inc. |
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| Michael Lazan is a playwright who has had plays produced by many theater companies including Ensemble Studio Theatre, Workshop Theater Company, HERE, Manhattan Theater Source. The Conjugality Test was presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater and also was nominated for best play at the Midtown International Theater Festival in 2007. Blue Sunset in Timisoara was selected as a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville National 10 Minute Play Contest. He has written for theAtrainplays more than a dozen times. |
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