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Dan O'Brien's plays include The Cherry Sisters Revisited (Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival), The House in Hydesville (Geva Theatre Center), The Voyage of the Carcass (Stage 13 / SoHo Playhouse; Page 73 Productions), The Dear Boy (Second Stage Theatre), Moving Picture (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Key West (Geva), Am Lit (Ensemble Studio Theatre), and Lamarck (Perishable Theatre), as well as the new plays The Three Christs of Ypsilanti and The Body of an American. He has received commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club, Center Theatre Group, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Ensemble Studio Theatre's Sloan / First Light Grant, Geva Theatre Center, and residencies and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, Yaddo, Ucross Fondation, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, and the Thomas J. Watson Foundation. Awards include the American Theatre Critics Association's Osborn Award. He has served as a Hodder Fellow Playwright-in-residence at Princeton University, the inaugural Djerassi Fellow in Playwriting at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as well as the Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting at Sewanee. He is also a poet whose work has appeared in many literary magazines. O'Brien holds an MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from Brown University, and a BA in Theatre and English from Middlebury College. |
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| Richard O'Bryant began his writing career early with poems and short stories. Next came playwriting, with Shark in the Bathtub as the first of two collaborations with Carla Hosein. It was first performed in 1992 for Stanton College Preparatory School's inaugural Night of One Acts. A move into journalism came later with his involvement as an editor for The Spinnaker, the campus newspaper of the University of North Florida. Richard left us too early on September 12, 2005. |
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| Dean O'Carroll is a playwright and comedian who has had plays produced in more than 30 states, and Canada. |
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| Dean O'Donnell has had his plays produced in Boston, New York, Hollywood, and around the United States. Most recently, his one-act play Legwork was produced as part of The Boston Plays by Centastage Performance Group, and his play Nobody Knows You're a Dog was produced at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts. He has won the Steinberg Award, and has been a finalist in the Actor's Theatre of Louisville's one-act play contest, the Gassner Award competition, and the Siena College International Playwriting Competition. He holds an MFA in playwriting from Brandeis University, and currently teaches drama at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. |
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| Kevin Kell O'Donnell has written three full-length plays -- Jab 'n' Jump Back, LandEscapers, and Penance -- as well as several short plays, poems, and short stories. Penance is currently being adapted into a screenplay. He grew up in the Boston area and now lives in New York City. |
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| Mark O'Donnell received the 2003 Tony Award for Hairspray. His plays include That's It, Folks!; Fables for Friends; The Nice and the Nasty; Strangers on Earth; Vertigo Park; and the musical Tots in Tinseltown. He collaborated with Bill Irwin on an adaptation of Moliere's Scapin and co-authored a translation of Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear.
He has published two collections of comic stories Elementary Education and Vertigo Park and Other Tales (both Knopf) as well as two novels, Getting Over Homer and Let Nothing You Dismay (both in Vintage paperback). His humor, cartoons, and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and Esquire. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the George S. Kaufman Award. |
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| John O'Hara is a Philadelphia-based actor and director. His plays include O Happy Dagger, S N A P, Renewal, Fantasy Rabbit Tour, Bad Reception, as well as over forty plays written during his tenure as resident playwright of Theatre Arts Center. His works have been seen on stage at Bristol Riverside Theatre, Act II Playhouse, the Adrienne, City Theatre, Forum Theatre, and Skippack Playcrafters, among others. He is a graduate of DeSales University and a proud member of Actors' Equity. |
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| Robert O'Hara received a 2006 Obie Award for his Direction of the World Premiere production of In the Continuum. He wrote and directed Insurrection: Holding History at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater. The piece received the Oppenheimer Award for Best New American Play and was subsequently published by both Theater Communications Group and Dramatist Play Service. It has been produced around the country including at Mark Taper Forum and American Conservatory Theater. His new play, Antebellum, was workshopped at the O'Neill Theater Conference; American Ma(u)l was produced by ACT/Magic Theater and The Culture Project; The Spot, produced at Mark Taper Forum and NYSF; Down Low, produced by Mixed Blood Theater; and B.Candy, produced by Partial Comfort Productions. Current and recent writing projects are a rewrite (uncredited) for The Wiz, directed by Des McAnuff; Raw Pearl, Broadway bio-musical of Pearl Bailey, to be produced by Bill and Camille Cosby; a New Play Commission from LaJolla Playhouse; Good Breeding, (after The Oresteia), currently in production at UCSD; as well as My Place in the Horror, to be produced by Duly Noted Inc., as his feature film directing debut. He has written films for Martin Scorsese/Universal Pictures (Live, a biopic of Richard Pryor); Spike Lee/HBO (Micheaux, biopic of Oscar Micheaux); Avnet/Kerner/ABC (Parting the Waters); Sony Pictures (The Journey is the Destination); New Line/Fine Line Cinema (Boorda); and Artisan Entertainment (White Folks). His plays have been produced around the world and he has been awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship, TCG Extended Collaboration Grant, NEA/TCG Fellowship, a Van Lier Fellow at New Dramatists, the first Mark Taper Forum's Sherwood Award, and the Tanne Award for Exceptional Body of Work. He is currently directing the World Tour of the Off-Broadway hit play, In the Continuum. He has been an artist in residence at the American Conservatory Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, and Theater Emory, as well as a visiting Professor at DePaul University School of the Arts. His work has been developed at Seattle Rep., Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, NYSF, ACT, and CTG. He has been commissioned by Mark Taper Forum, National Endowment of the Arts, McCarter Theatre, Theatres de Nimes, Le Theatre l'Odeon, Theaterworks/USA, and Theater Emory. |
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| Stephen O'Rourke. Stephen O'Rourke's collection of short comic plays, Peas and Carrots, was a critical success in the 2003 New York City Fringe Festival. He has taken part in several runs of theAtrainplays, writing a play for a random draw of actors in the time it takes to ride the subway from Inwood to Far Rockaway. His short plays have been performed at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and the Westbeth Theatre. He wrote the book and lyrics to Love Sucks, a punk rock musical produced by New York Musical Festival (NYMF). Mr. O'Rourke's solo play, The Longest Running Joke of the Twentieth Century was performed as part of the New York International Fringe Festival. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild. |
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| Kira Obolensky's plays include Hate Mail, written with Bill Corbett; Lobster Alice (Jungle Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Stages Theater); and The Adventures of Herculina (Next Theater, Frank Theater). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as the Kesselring Prize (for Lobster Alice). New work in progress includes Quicksilver (produced in 2003) and A Modern Home. A graduate of Williams College, Ms. Obolensky also attended Juilliard's Playwriting Program. |
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| Leah Okimoto has written three musicals with bookwriter/lyricist/actor Sean Grennan. Married Alive!, A Dog's Life, and Another Night Before Christmas have each premiered at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri and have since been produced in a wide variety of regional theatres in the US and Canada. Her family musical, Just So, with book and lyrics by David Hudson was produced in 2003 by Open Door Repertory Company and 2010 by The Actors Garden in Illinois. She and her husband live in Andover, Massachusetts with their 2-year-old daughter. |
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| John Olbert is the writer of over 30 original plays, 200 murder mysteries, and is the historical advisor for numerous film and television projects. He is the writer, composer, and producer of the European video release of Little Beasts, a two-volume children's video. In 2000, his play Broken Drum received the "Best New Play in Florida" award. He is also the writer, producer, and director of To The Beat Of The Drum (PBS). Mr. Olbert is currently working on several television series, including A Dish Of History, The Edge, The Last Resort, and Taylor's Toy Box. |
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| John Olive is a widely produced and award-winning playwright, the author of Minnesota Moon, Standing On My Knees, The Voice of the Prairie, Careless Love, Killers, The Summer Moon, Evelyn and the Polka King, God Fire, Into the Moonlight Valley, and many others. Producing theaters include: the Guthrie Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Steppenwolf, Actors Theatre of Louisville, South Coast Rep, the Old Globe, ACT/Seattle, and the Royal Theatre Copenhagen. Awards include: McKnight Fellowships, Bush Fellowships, a National Endowment For The Arts fellowship, Kennedy Center Award For New Plays (The Summer Moon). Recently John has focused on plays for young audiences: Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Jason & The Golden Fleece, Water Babies, The Magic Bicycle, Pharaoh Serket And The Lost Stone Of Fire, others. Producing theaters include: Seattle Childrens, First Stage Milwaukee, the Arden, People's Light & Theatre Co., etc. Mr. Olive is also a screenwriter, a novelist, and a popular teacher of creative writing. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife Mary and their son Michael. |
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| Scott Organ's play Phoenix had its world premiere at the 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays and its New York premiere at The Barrow Group. As a playwright, Scott's work has been commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company, developed by The New Group and The Barrow Group, and has been performed and workshopped throughout the United States. His full-length play Fixed premiered at the Hangar Theater in Ithaca, New York. His play City was produced at the Circle X Theater in Los Angeles, where it won the L.A. Drama-Logue Award for best new play. It was subsequently produced at the first New York International Fringe Festival, directed by Tony Award winner Michael Rupert, and at The Flea Theater in New York, directed by Kevin Moriarty. His short plays China and The Mulligan were published in New American Short Plays 2005, edited by Craig Lucas, and have been performed throughout the country. His one-act play and everybody else can be found in Best American Short Plays 2002-2003. His short play Afraid. Yes. Of. premiered Off-Broadway as a part of The Fear Project at The Barrow Group. Many other short plays have been performed at the Atlantic Theater Company's 453 New Works Series, which he helped create. Scott is also the author of the screenplays Better Man, Ghostkeepers and the original television pilots The Powerball 7 and The Pines. |
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| Dominic Orlando is a co-creator of Fissures (lost & found) which will be presented at The 2010 Humana Festival of New American Plays in Louisville. Mr. Orlando is a two-time Jerome and McKnight Fellow through The Playwrights Center where he is currently a Core Writer and founding producer of the Center's company-in-residence, The Workhaus Collective. In 2009 he worked on commissions from Actors Theatre of Louisville, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Teatro Del Pueblo, The Red Eye Collaboration, and Nautilus Music-Theater, and his Danny Casolaro Died for You was featured in The National New Play Network's Showcase of New American Plays. Other works have been developed and produced at the Guthrie Theater (commission), New York Theatre Workshop, Here Arts Center, The Samuel Beckett on Theatre Row (Off-Broadway), the Lincoln Center/American Living Room (multi-year), the Ontological at St. Mark's Church, the Aurora Theatre, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (multi-year), Crowded Fire Theatre, Kitchen Dog (multi-year),Teatro Del Pueblo (commission, multi-year), The Jungle Theater (multi-year), Stage Left Theater, the Red Eye, BVT Children's Theater (commission, multi-year), the New York International Fringe Festival (multi-year), the Edinburgh Fringe, the Prague International Fringe, the Pasinger/ Fabrik in Munich, and the Tokyo International Arts Festival. In NYC his work was supported by the New York State Council on the Arts (multi-year), the Alliance of Resident Theatres (multi-year), the NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs and The Puffin Foundation (among others). He has been a writer-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony (four-time Fellow), Yaddo, the Edward Albee Foundation (multi-year), Ucross, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, the William Inge Center for the Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (a residency with Paula Vogel). His writing is published by San Francisco Magazine, Playscripts, Inc., and Dramatics magazine. |
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| Rich Orloff is the author of a dozen full-length comedies, three comic revues, oodles of short plays (60 of which have been published by Playscripts, Inc. in eight collections), and the play Vietnam 101: The War on Campus (also known as Days of Possibilities), which has been produced at colleges and small theaters throughout the country. His two-person comedy Romantic Fools has had over 30 productions around the world and played over eight months in Madrid. His comedy Funny as a Crutch was a New York Times Critic's Pick, a Back Stage Critic's Pick, and nytheatre.com's Pick of the Week.
Mr. Orloff's short plays have received over 800 productions on six of the seven continents (and a staged reading in Antarctica). His short comedies have been published five times in the annual Best American Short Plays anthology series, three times in the annual Best Ten-Minute Plays series, and in The Art of the One-Act Play,Take Ten II, The Bedford Introduction to Literature and An Anthology of American Short Plays (published in China).
Mr. Orloff's full-length plays also include Skin Deep ("a rare gem of a comedy" -- Show Business Weekly), Big Boys ("rip-roaringly funny" -- New York Times), Someone's Knocking (Back Stage West Critic's Pick) and several others. They've been presented at such theaters as Arizona Theatre Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Dayton Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Phoenix Theatre Company, West Coast Ensemble, and three times at the Key West Theatre Festival. His plays have won such awards and contests as the Festival of Emerging American Theatre, the Playwrights First Award, the InterPlay International Play Festival, the Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest, the Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence and the Abeles Foundation Playwrights Award.
Mr. Orloff has given lectures and workshops on playwriting (especially the art of the short play) at Ohio State University, Oberlin College, Central Washington University, Western Michigan University and Miami's City Theatre. He lives in New York City but loves getting out of town. For more about Rich Orloff and his plays, visit www.richorloff.com.
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| Sally Oswald is a playwright and editor. She is the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, a Thurber House Playwriting Fellowship, and fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Millay Colony for the Arts, the Dramatists Guild, and a New Voices fellowship from The Ensemble Studio Theater. Her work has been developed and presented at Clubbed Thumb, Portland Center Stage, The Foundry Theater, New Georges, and St. Ann's Warehouse, among others. She has also written text for puppet-theater artist Dan Hurlin and a libretto for composer Nora-Kroll Rosenbaum. With Jordan Harrison she edits Play A Journal of Plays and publishes DEVICE, an online collection of multimedia performance writing. |
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