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| Lisa D'Amour is a playwright and interdisciplinary artist. With Katie Pearl, she is co-artistic director of PearlDamour, a company that makes collaborative, often site-specific performances. PearlDamour's work has been presented at PS122, HERE Arts Center and the Walker Arts Center and The Kitchen, among others. They received an OBIE award in 2003 for Nita & Zita, a collaboration with Katie Randels/Artspot Productions. Ms. D'Amour's plays have been produced by theaters across the country, including The Women's Project, Clubbed Thumb, Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf, New Georges, Salvage Vanguard Theater and Children's Theater Company. Her latest play, Detroit, premiered at Steppenwolf Theatre in 2010, directed by Austin Pendleton. Detroit was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Drama and the 2011 Susan Smith Blackburn prize. She has received commissions from Playwrights' Horizons, Steppenwolf, The Guthrie and, most recently, a Sloan Commission from Manhattan Theater Club. In 2008, Ms. D'Amour was awarded the Alpert Award for the Arts in theater and 2011, she received the Steinberg Playwright Award. As a playwright, she has received fellowships from the Jerome and McKnight Foundations through the Playwrights' Center, an independent artist commission from NYSCA (for Stanley 2006, created with her brother Todd D'Amour) and an NEA / TCG Playwrights' Residency (to create HIDE TOWN with Infernal Bridegroom Productions in Houston). With PearlDamour, she has received project funding from the MAP Fund and Creative Capital. She received her M.F.A. in playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. in English and Theater from Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi. She is a New Dramatists alumni. She lives with her husband, composer Brendan Connelly, in Brooklyn and New Orleans. |
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| Gordon Dahlquist is a native of the Pacific Northwest, where he worked for several years writing and directing plays. Since 1988 he has lived in New York. He has been a member of New Dramatists, and is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect. His works include: Messalina (Evidence Room, Los Angeles), text for Babylon Is Everywhere: A Court Masque (CINE, Schaeberle Theatre; to be published in Theatre Magazine), Delirium Palace (Evidence Room, Los Angeles; published in Breaking Ground), The Secret Machine (Twilight Theatre Company at Soho Rep), Vortex du Plaisir (Ice Factory '99 Festival at the Ohio Theatre, WKCR's Manhattan Theatre of the Air), Island of Dogs (4th Street Theatre), Severity's Mistress (Soho Rep Theatre, New York University, winner of Primary Stages' Bug & Bub award), Mission Byzantium! (American Globe Theater, NYTW's Just Add Water Festival) and Reticence (Horace Mann Theatre).
He has written and directed several experimental films, including Boise and Beyond (selected for the San Francisco International Film Festival), Requiem (Seattle International Film Festival), and the feature-length Rope of Blood (Northwest Film and Video Festival). He is a graduate of Reed College and Columbia University's School of the Arts. He received a Garland Playwriting Award for Delirium Palace, and the Joe Calloway Award from New Dramatists. |
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| Mary Dattilo began her writing and acting career in the fourth grade. Since then, she has performed in and written numerous plays. Francine's Will was the first place winner at the Nutmeg Players New Play Festival in 2006. Her first novel, Time's Edge, a book she co-authored with her husband Joseph Dattilo, won the Tassy Walden Award in 2005. She lives in New England. |
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| Ann Morrissett Davidon has been a playwright member of the Philadelphia Dramatists Center and the Brick Playhouse for the past decade. Earlier, she was a Writing Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Her articles, essays, stories, and poems have appeared in many national publications and in Europe, where she lived off and on for over seven years. Two of her plays, about Leonardo da Vinci and Copernicus, were produced on public radio in New York and Philadelphia. Her first stage play, a semi-musical, Getting Up and Getting Dressed, was produced at Theater Center Philadelphia in 1980. She has had short plays in Brick and PDC showcase productions, and in 1997 was given a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts award for scriptwriting. In 2001 her one-act play Words Like Doves was staged by Love Creek Productions in New York, and in 2002 the same group staged her full-length play Safe Places. [Playscripts, Inc. regrets to announce that Ms. Davidon has passed away.] |
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| Drew Davis. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the American Association of Community Theatre, Drew Davis is a freelance writer in the Augusta, Georgia area. His plays have been produced in San Diego, Chicago, and the southeast including Atlanta, as well as in Cheshire, England. Two of his short stories were published in the Award-Winning Tales western anthology. His one-act play The Message is the 2011 Thornton Wilder Playwriting Contest winner. |
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Eisa Davis wrote and starred in the acclaimed stage memoir Angela's Mixtape. She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama with her play Bulrusher. Other plays include The History of Light (Contemporary American Theater Festival), Warriors Don't Cry (Cornerstone Theater Company, Tennessee Women's Theater Project), Hip Hop Anansi (Imagination Stage), Paper Armor, Umkovu, Six Minutes, and Secretary of Shake (in Point of Revue at Mixed Blood Theatre). Ms. Davis is a recent alum of New Dramatists, where she was a winner of the Helen Merrill Award, the Whitfield Cook Award, The Lippmann Family Award, and others. She has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Cave Canem, and the Van Lier and Mellon Foundations. Her writing has been published in American Theatre, The Source, To Be Real, Everything But The Burden, Step Into A World, Role Call, and Total Chaos. Ms. Davis is an Obie-winning actor whose work includes The Wire and the Broadway rock musical and Spike Lee film Passing Strange. She also writes and performs music, available on the album Something Else. |
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| Adrienne Dawes' plays include Am I White, You Are Pretty, Jesus Loves Good Christians, and Heritage, Her-i-tage and Hair-i-tage. Her work has been produced by American Repertory Theatre of London, Live Girls Theatre!, Little Fish Theatre Company, New England Academy of Theater, New Jersey Repertory Company, Hyde Park Theater, St Idiot Collective, and American Theater Company (Chicago, IL). Her plays have been published by Playscripts, Inc, Smith & Kraus, Heuer Publishing and Vintage Books.
Adrienne is the recipient of the Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting, Marchbanks Family Foundation Grant, a Fringe Festival Commission Award, Seed Support Grant, and Finer Point Funding Grant from Scriptworks. She was named a semifinalist for the Mildred and Albert Panowski Playwriting Award and a finalist for the 2012 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and 2012 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. |
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| Tom Dawes and Ginny Redington come from successful careers in the music business as singers, songwriters, musicians, arrangers and producers. Ms. Redington wrote songs for artists such as Sarah Vaughan, Eddy Arnold and Gladys Knight, as well as performing her own material. Mr. Dawes was a member of the rock group The Cyrkle, best known for their hits "Red Rubber Ball" and "Turn Down Day." He also produced a number of records for other artists, including two gold albums for the British blues group Foghat. Together, Ms. Redington and Mr. Dawes wrote the music and lyrics for some of the most well-known worldwide advertising campaigns of the last few decades, including "We're American Airlines", "Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz" for Alka Seltzer, "You, You're the One" for McDonald's, and "Coke is It." They have since written and photographed three popular books on antiques: The Bakelite Jewelry Book, and The Victorian Jewelry Book, and Georgian Jewellery which have had multiple printings in many languages.
The Talk of the Town was their first attempt at writing for musical theater. |
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Philip Dawkins' critically-acclaimed play The Homosexuals received a Joseph Jefferson Nomination for New Work after its world premiere with About Face Theatre in the summer of 2011, under the direction of Bonnie Metzgar. His play Failure: A Love Story premiered at Victory Gardens Theater under the direction of Seth Bockley, with productions slated at Azuka Theatre in Philadelphia and Illinois Shakespeare Festival in Bloomington-Normal in Summer 2013. His play Miss Marx or The Involuntary Side Effect of Living received a staged reading as part of Steppenwolf's 2010 First Look Series. Other credits: Dead Letter Office (Dog and Pony Theatre); Yes To Everything! (Chicago, New York, California, DC); Perfect (The Side Project); Ugly Baby (Chicago Opera Vanguard/Strawdog Theatre Company); A Still Life In Color (T.U.T.A. Company). His plays for young folks are published through Playscripts, Inc. A graduate of Loyola University, Chicago, Mr. Dawkins is an Artistic Associate of About Face Theatre, an Ensemble Playwright at Victory Gardens, and a founding member of Chicago Opera Vanguard. Mr. Dawkins teaches playwriting at Northwestern University and through the Victory Gardens ACCESS Program for writers with disabilities. He also teaches Kung Fu to little Chicago kids through Rising Phoenix Kung Fu. Hi-Yah! |
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| Gabriel Dean is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist whose original plays and adaptations have been produced or read at Aurora Theatre (Iron Moon & Buy My House...Please!), Dad's Garage Theatre (Blue Fingernails), Actor's Express (Beowulf & Riffed), Horizon Theatre (Piece), Relativity Theatre Concern, Stage Door Players, The Process Theatre, Emory University and Oglethorpe University and the University of Texas -- Austin. His adaptation of Beowulf has been produced in Canada, Georgia, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and New York. Mr. Dean's poetry, fiction and journalism has been published in Snake Nation Review, The Tower, Eclectica Magazine, The Melic Review, South E-Zine, Creative Loafing, and ARTlanta Magazine. Mr. Dean is the recipient of several distinctions for his writing including "Favorite Local Playwright 2009" in Creative Loafing -- Atlanta, the James A. Michener Playwriting Fellowship, the City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs Playwriting Award, the Porter Fleming Prize for Fiction, the Sidney Lanier Prize for Poetry, and the Horizon Theatre Young Playwright's Festival. As an actor, he's performed in over 40 plays and musicals. A little known fact: as a singer, Mr. Dean debuted professionally at the age of 18 at Carnegie Hall singing the solo in Kirby Shaw's jazz arrangement of "God Bless America." He studied the interdisciplinary art of Musical Theatre at CAP21 at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and earned his B.A. in Literary Writing with honors in Playwriting from Oglethorpe University where he also studied theatre criticism abroad at the University of Manchester in England. Mr. Dean founded and facilitated the Odyssey Program, a drama/creative writing workshop for Morry's Camp, a non-profit camp for underprivileged inner city kids in New York. He is a co-founder of Relativity Theatre Concern in Atlanta, a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Theatre Communications Group, Austin ScriptWorks, the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, and currently lives in Austin, Texas where aside from pursuing his M.F.A. in Playwriting at the James A. Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas -- Austin, he enjoys playing his guitar to anyone who'll listen and taking VERY long walks with his two VERY large, but loveable mutt rescue dogs, Buster and Argo. His greatest accomplishment to date: convincing his beautiful wife (and actress), Jessie Dean, to marry him. Other jobs have included: director of marketing at Actor's Express, real estate broker, babysitter, waiter, barista, dog walker, house painter and translator. One day soon he will finish his website: www.GabrielDean.com. |
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| Steph DeFerie grew up on Cape Cod and lives there still. The many, many terrific hours she spent studying, performing in and attending shows at the Harwich Junior Theatre comprise the majority of her theatrical training. Although she also writes for adults, for the last nine years she has worked with the Chatham Middle School Drama Club because she loves introducing kids to the wonders of live performance. Her favorite part of writing for young audiences is incorporating audience participation into her work. She has published 16 scripts which have received countless productions in this country and abroad and won several awards. Her most popular works include Once Upon A Wolf, Mother Goose Is Eaten By Werewolves, I Hate Shakespeare!, and Nick Tickle, Fairy Tale Detective. Out of almost 100 entries, her 10-minute play Nick Tickle In Witch Crook Took The Book? was voted Audience Favorite in the 2009 Summer Shorts 4 Festival in Williston, North Dakota. Her latest piece, an adaptation of A Tale Of Two Cities for middle school performers, was staged in April 2010 and has just been published. She is extremely proud and excited that her script Puss 'n Boots -- A Tale of a Tail won First Place in East Valley Children's Theatre Aspiring Playwrights Contest in 2010 and Second Place in the 2009 NETC Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Competition. It premiered at the Harwich Junior Theatre in August 2010. Her latest play The Further Adventures Of Nick Tickle has just been published as has her happy-ending version of The Pied Piper Of Hamelin Town. Ms. DeFerie is available for Skyping sessions with producing organizations. Visit her website www.freewebs.com/stephsplays for more info on her work.
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| Vincent Delaney. His plays include The Robeson Tapes, Perpetua, MLK and the FBI, and Kuwait, which won the Heideman Award and was produced in the Humana Festival. A full length version of Kuwait won the New Play Award at the Sonoma Rep, and was produced at the Illusion Theatre.
His work has been developed at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Magic Theatre, Woolly Mammoth, the Empty Space, the Jungle, PlayLabs, the New Harmony Project, and the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. Commissions include the Guthrie, the Children's Theatre Company, ACT, the Cleveland Playhouse, the Great American History Theatre, and a Jerome Commission from Commonweal Theatre. He is the recipient of a Bush Fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, the University of Alabama's Apsey Award, and an Artist Grant from the Seattle Arts Commission. His work is published by Smith and Kraus, Heineman, Samuel French, Dramatics magazine and Playscripts, Inc.
Vince is a Core Member of the Playwrights Center, and teaches young playwrights in Seattle. |
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| Peter DeLaurierhas held several positions in the theater, including: Artistic Associate / Company Actor / Director / Playwright (People's Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA), Artistic Director (New Stage Theatre, Jackson, MS), Founder / Producing Director (Delaware Theatre Company, Wilmington, DE), and Theatre Faculty (Temple University, University of Delaware).
He was the recipient of the Barrymore Award for Best Actor (Underneath the Lintel) and has been nominated for Best New Play (Anne of Green Gables), Best Actor (Man From Nebraska), and Best Supporting (Six Characters in Search of an Author and King Lear). His adaptation of A Christmas Carol has been produced at many regional professional and community theaters, and his translation of Moliere's The Misanthrope has been produced at university theaters. |
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| Jonathan Denn. Mr. Denn's first play, Holier Ground, received an informal reading at the Yale Drama School, was in the Strawberry One-Act Play Festival, was given a staged reading at TADA!, as a winner of its 14th Annual One-Act Play Competition, and went on to be chosen for their Best of Reading Series 1991-2006.
Mr. Denn has written two other unproduced full-length plays: Ununwell, "A physically handicapped researcher and her phobia-riddled boss discover a drug that cures way more than the common cold." And, Equal Threat, "A State is offered an immense annual grant, from the estate of the world's first trillionaire, to adopt a new-and-improved Bill of Rights. Eventually, the new Governor is torn between the state of the union and the state of his family."
Mr. Denn's newest work is a "life play." He started out to write a dramatic play about the Millennium Development Goals and integrity, but it became clear that this would be much better nonfiction. See countingprayers.org, billionprayermarch.org, and millenniumcongregation.org.
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| Hillary DePiano is a fiction and non-fiction author best known for her play, The Love of Three Oranges, which has been performed in theatres around the world, and her e-commerce blog, TheWhineSeller.com. She was the 2002 recipient of the C. Willard Smith Award for Creativity in Theatre for her work with The Love of Three Oranges and won both the 2001 Julia Fonville Smithson Memorial Prize and the 2001 West Branch Literary Prize for Fiction for her novella, The Author. She blogs regularly about writing, publishing, marketing, social networking and all things online on her website (www.hillarydepiano.com), is active in the online writing community and has served as an ML for the sister writing events of NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy.
She's happy to connect at either Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/hdepiano) or on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/hillarydepiano).
She currently resides in New Jersey which inconsiderately contains four oranges. |
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| Erin Detrick has served as dramaturg and assistant-dramaturg on a wide range of projects during literary internships at New Dramatists, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Freelance dramaturgy credits include The Glass Menagerie at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and A Bright Room Called Day at the Cleveland Public Theatre, as well as a variety of workshop productions. Her short play The Unconscious Hours has been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Point B Productions in New York City. |
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| Lydia Diamond's plays include: Voyeurs de Venus (2006 Joseph Jefferson Award for best new work, 2006 Black Theater Alliance Award for best writing), The Bluest Eye (2006 Black Arts Alliance Image Award for best new play and 2008 AATE Distinguished Play Award), The Gift Horse (Theodore Ward Prize, Kesselring Prize 2nd Place), Stick Fly (2008 Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist, 2006 Black Theatre Alliance Award for best play), Lizzie Stranton, and Harriet Jacobs. Producing Theatres include: Arena Stage, The Huntington, New Vic, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Long Wharf, Hartford Stage, McCarter, Playmakers Rep, Providence Black Rep, Chicago Dramatists, Congo Square, TrueColors, The Matrix, and Company One. Commissions include: Steppenwolf, Actors Theatre of Louisville/Victory Gardens, McCarter, Huntington, and The Roundabout. Stick Fly is published by Northwestern University Press. Ms. Diamond is a 2009 NEA/Arena Stage New Play Development Grant Finalist, an 2006-2007 Huntington Playwright Fellow, a current TCG Board Member, and is on faculty at Boston University. |
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| Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright and educator. His full-length plays (Welcome to Arroyo's and Guernica) have been developed and performed at Arielle Tepper's Summer Play Festival, The Hip-Hop Theater Festival, The Lark, The Donmar Warehouse (London), South Coast Repertory, The Tank, Manhattan Theatre Source, New York University, The Knitting Factory, The Public Theater, and New Dramatists. Guernica was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2006 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He has served as an adjudicator for Florida Thespians, a dramaturg and instructor at the International Thespian Festival, and a workshop presenter at Future Aesthetics and the Latino Playwright Initiative.
Mr. Diaz is a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship with New Dramatists and a Playwright Residency at London's Donmar Warehouse. He holds an MFA from New York University's Department of Dramatic Writing and a BA in Dramatic and Cultural Studies from the Gallatin School of Individualized Studies at NYU. |
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| Bonnie Dickinson lives and works in Wilton, Connecticut where she began directing and teaching in 1993. A graduate of NYU School of the Arts, Ms. Dickinson holds a BFA in Acting and her Masters in teaching. She has her 6th Year Degree in Educational Theatre. She created the play Voices in Conflict with her Theatre Arts II class. Ms. Dickinson is very grateful for the love and support of her husband, Philip Goiran, and her children, Eric and Lily. |
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| Dan Dietz. Dan Dietz's plays include Dirigible, Blind Horses, Tilt Angel, and Americamisfit, and have been seen in New York, Los Angeles, and points in between. His play tempOdyssey received a rolling world premiere from the National New Play Network in 2006-07, premiering at Curious Theatre (Denver, CO), Studio Theatre (Washington, DC), Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, IN) and New Jersey Rep (Long Branch, NJ). Mr. Dietz has been honored with a James A. Michener Fellowship, a Josephine Bay Paul Fellowship, and the Austin Critics Table Award for Best New Play. He is a two-time finalist for the Princess Grace Award and a nominee for the Oppenheimer Award, the Osborn Award, and the ATCA/Steinberg Award. His short play Trash Anthem received the 2003 Heideman Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Mr. Dietz is currently in residence at Salvage Vanguard Theater in Austin, Texas via the NEA/TCG Playwright Residency Program, where he is developing his latest play, The Difference Engine. He teaches playwriting at Florida State University. |
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