Joan's Voices
Caliban Rex
Replacing A
Cog
Swimming in
the Ocean
 To Die for
Want of Lobster
Caliban Rex
To Die for
Want of Lobster
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PLAYWRITING Production Credits: FULL LENGTH WORKS:
IN
SEARCH OF A BETTER LIFE WITH ELVIS
Baldwin New Play Festival African American
Playwriting Award, UCSD, Winner 2007
UCSD Baldwin New Play Festival Concert Reading, San
Diego, CA April 2007
The Planning Stage, Fall reading series, Avery Point,
Groton, CT, October 2004
Virtual Theatre The Pen Is Mightier International New
Play Search, First Runner-up
Virtual Theatre Staged Reading Workshop, January 2005
A
YANKEE TRADER
Virtual Theatre Premier, El Portal Theatre, North
Hollywood, CA, August-September 2006, Director Ian
Voght
Virtual Theatre The Pen Is Mightier International New
Play Search, Winner
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference Finalist 2003
Abingdon Theatre Company, Manhattan Reading Series
July 2002
Strawberry One-Act Festival Finalists (first scene)
Riant Theatre, NYC July 2000
MINOTAURS.
TOREROS.
Semi-finalist O'Neill Playrights Conference 2007
The Planning Stage, workshop production, New London,
CT August 2006
FALLEN,
A MYTH
The Planning Stage, Staged Reading Workshop, The
Dragon's Egg, Ledyard, CT February 2005
FENCERS
Ensemble Studio Theater Emerging Voices
Fellowship/Workshop, NYC July 2003, Dramaturg Jim
Ryan
Ensemble Studio Theater Concert Reading, NYC November
2003. Director Will Pomerantz
JOAN'S
VOICES
Winner Best New Play 2001, Spirit of Broadway Award
VOX Humana Series, The Best Production Company,
Norwich, CT, August 2001 Director Brett Bernardini
Avery Point Playhouse - Play Reading Series,
September 2004
Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre International New Play
Festival, Providence, RI, September 2001 Director
Jenifer Swain
Finalist National CITA Full-length Playwriting
Competition 2001
O'Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist, 2000
Honorable Mention, Theatre 3 New Plays Festival,
California, September 2000
Staged Reading- Local Playwrights' Festival/O'Neill
Theater Center, May 1999
Staged Reading O'Neill National Theater Institute,
November 1998
TO DIE
FOR WANT OF LOBSTER
Gorilla Theater, Kansas City, MO December-January
2003
O'Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist 2001
Winner Gorilla Theatre New Play Festival, Kansas
City, MO, September 2001
Secret Theatre, New London, CT, February 2001
FLY
GALS (Concept & Co-author)
Workshop Production- Oberlin College with Red Hen
Theatre, March 1998
Staged reading, Mystic, CT- This Wide & Universal
Theater, Nov. 1996
AUNT
WING'S THINGS
Staged Reading - Local Playwrights' Festival/ O'Neill
Theater Center, May 1994
ONE ACTS:
SWIMMING
IN THE OCEAN
3 Chairs, 2 Cubes, Brown University, October 2006
Festival of Short Plays, Providence, RI, June 2005
American Globe Theater/Turnip Festival, Finalist, NYC
April 2003 Director Shawna Lucy
By the Sea Festival, Actors Workout Studio, Los
Angeles, July 2003
Bare Bones 10 by 10 Festival, Charlotte, NC May 2003
Wasatch 10 by 10 Festival, Utah, July 2003
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Conference, NYC August 2003
Edward Albee Last Frontier Conference, Valdez Alaska,
June 2003
girls.
in boys pants.
Streep Experimental Studio, Vassar College, February
2005
The Planning Stage, spring reading series, Westerly,
RI April 2005
ABOUT
A HUNDRED PANCAKES
The Planning Stage, spring reading series, Westerly,
RI, May 2007
BULL!
Triangle Theatre - The Beast Festival, October 2004
CALIBAN
REX
Warner Theater Connecticut One-Act Festival, New
Britain, CT, March 2002
Short & NEAT Festival, International Festival of
Arts & Ideas, New Haven, CT, June 2001
Secret Theatre, New London, CT, September 2000
LEAK
Hand to Mouth Players One-Act Play Festival, New
York, September 2003
Robert R. Lehan Award, Westfield State College, First
Prize, 2003
Westfield State College Staged Reading workshop, 2004
SARAH
LAUGHED
Commissioned and performed for the Epsicopal Church
Women of the Cavelry Church, Stonington, CT January
2002
Finalist National CITA One-Act Playwriting
Competition 2002
DISCOVERING,
BEGINNING
Commissioned and performed for the Epsicopal Church
Women of the Cavelry Church, Stonington, CT January
2002
REPLACING
A COG
Woman Seeking..., NYC November 2003
Four By Four, Garde Arts Center, New London, CT,
November 2000
Second Step Players (SSP)O'Neill Theater Center &
Nat. Tour
THE
HAND OF GOD
Premier Second Step Players- O'Neill Theater Center,
September 1992
RECOGNIZABLE
FACES
Premier- Hartford, CT , April 1991
Second Step Players- O'Neill Theater Center,
September 1991-
NOTABLE
SKETCH COMEDY & SHORT PLAYS:
REPLACING
A COG (skit version)- 1999 SSP,
O'Neill Theater Center
DYSFUNCTION JUNCTION Episodes I-V 1992-1996, Episode
VI 2001, SSP O'Neill Theater Center & Nat. Tour
DEPRESSION 101- 1995 SSP O'Neill Theater Center &
Nat. Tour
THE Y FILES- New Freedom Players, Middleton, VT
NIGHT OF THE LIVING UNDIAGNOSED- SSP, 1995
& New England Tour
ICE FISHING- The Date From Hell, Valentine's Day
1997
RED CARD/GREEN CARD & THE TOFU BIRD - Holiday From
Hell Dec. 1997
DIRECTING
Credits:
SECRET
THEATRE New London, CT
TO DIE
FOR WANT OF LOBSTER (writer/director- premier
production)
CALIBAN REX (writer/director- bare-bones experimental
production)
AVERY
POINT PLAYHOUSE Playwrights in Renaissance Series,
University of Connecticut, Groton, CT
RUN TO
ELYSIA (world premier musical) written by Nicholas
Checker, music by Rick Spencer
OUT WITH A BANG (staged-reading workshop production)
LOCAL
PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL (staged-reading workshops of new
plays)- O'Neill Theater Center
A
CONSPIRACY OF PIES by Tom Kelly, May 2000
THE BEATLE CLUB by Teresa Sullivan, May 1997
A RARE ENCOUNTER by Tage Wright, May 1996
FRANK CAPRA GETS HIS WINGS by B. Stemple, May 1994
I LOVE A PARADE by Kevin Cane, May 1993
PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/DRAMA
COACH
NATE'S
OUT OF THE WAY CABARET- Fitch Senior High School ,
April 1999-
THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH- FSHS, Jan. 1999-
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS- FSHS, April 1998-
THE LARK- FSHS, Jan. 1998
THIS WIDE
& UNIVERSAL THEATER
FLY
GALS- Staged reading workshop, Mystic, CT, November
1997
ARTREACH,
INC. SECOND STEP PLAYERS (SSP)
Produced,
wrote & directed for the Second Step Players, a
troupe of actors comprised primarily of people with
psychiatric disorders who perform original comedy
about the experience of mental illness. Primary
training ground for alternative directing approaches
focussing on process.
1993-1996
Creative Consultant for National Mental Health
Performers Network- trained seven theater troupes
throughout Northeast U.S. in creating theater with
people who have experienced disabilities- Director
training/ produced director training video. Directed
numerous skits with Second Step Players as well as
organized and ran three national theater conferences
entitled “Because Creativity Heals- a day of
mental health and the arts”.
1991-1993
Technical Director/director/writer/all `round
everything that needed doing.
1988-1991
Volunteer director/stage manager/scene
painter/writer.
PRODUCING
Credits:
PRODUCER
& COMMITTEE CHAIR LOCAL PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL
The 6th,
7th, 8th & 10th Local Playwrights'
Festival, O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT
Committee member, director, playwright, actor from
1993 to 2003.
CO-PRODUCER
/ DIRECTOR / CO-WRITER
THE
DATE FROM HELL- The Vanguard/Guard Arts Center ,
Valentine's Day 1997
THE HOLIDAY FROM HELL- New London, CT , Dec. 1997
FILM/VIDEO
Credits:
NIGHTSHADE
PRODUCTIONS Quaker Hill, CT
THE
SNOWMAN - Director - 30 minute independent digital
video; Screenplay by Nick Checker
SHEDIM- Videography Designer/Camera Operator/Lighting
Technician ,
LASER STORM TRAINING VIDEO for the US Navy- Director,
Additional
Theater Notes:
GREATER
HARTFORD ACADEMY OF THE ARTS, teaching artist -
playwrighting workshop, creative writing
BUSHNELL ARTS PARTNER, teaching artist - playwriting
workshop
THE CONNECTICUT TIMES SHORELINE PRESS - After Dark
arts columnist
USN Family Youth Center, Film Production Workshop
instructor
NATIONAL THEATER INSTITUTE (NTI) Director of College
Relations- O'Neill Theater Center (1999 to 2004)
NTI PLAYWRIGHTING COMPONENT, Fall semester 1998,
Instructor Donna DiNovelli
NTI PLAYWRIGHTING COMPONENT, Fall semester 2002,
Instructor Polly Pen
NTI PLAYWRIGHTING COMPONENT, Spring semester 2003,
Instructor Rachel Shenkin
SET DESIGN- Papermoon Productions Children's Theater,
Spring 1999
CREATIVE ARTS IN EDUCATION- Associate Director,
O'Neill Theater Center (1997-1999)
Community
Involvement:
Board
of Directors Mystic paper Beast and The Dragon's Egg
member; Director & Steering Committee for
1993-2000 Local Playwrights' Festivals at the Eugene
O'Neill Theater Center (Chair- 1997-2000) 1999
Playwright Joan's Voices, 1996
Playwright Aunt Wing's Things; 1997
Head Scene Painter, Camelot, Pfizer
Players; Summer 1996 Flock Theatre production of As
You Like It as LeBeau, Connecticut College
Puppet manipulator for Hyden's Philomon &
Baucis in conjunction with The CT Early Music
Festival; 1996 Hygienic Art Show- crew volunteer,
exhibitor & performance volunteer; Volunteer
Southeastern Connecticut Aids Project (SECAP); 1993
WCNI Pier Concert; 1997-1999 Drama Coach Fitch Senior
High School.
Memberships
& Affiliations:
Member
of the Writers Roundtable
The Star Wars Fan Club
and The Dramatist Guild.
EXTRAS:
Plays
guitar, alto recorder, concertina and owns a portable
sound system; Award winning public speaker;
Professional caricature artist, graphic artist, scene
painter; Designed website for Local Playwrights
Festival (members.aol.com/localplaywrights); Really
great with dogs, teenagers and can wrangle most
livestock.
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