W R I T I N G 2008 1800 Acres – Full length Play • Workshopped at The Old Vic as part of the Old Vic New Voices Exchange. Rachel Briscoe, dir. • Finalist for Juilliard’s playwriting program. • Read at The Lark Play Development Center, NYC. Daniella Topol, dir. 2007 Babyhead – Full Length play • Read at the Paper Beats Rock downtown reading series in NY in October 07. Dir. by Author 2007 Chosen – Full length play • Read at the Paper Beats Rock downtown reading series in NY in July 07. Maria Goyanes, dir. • Nominated for Cherry Lane Mentorship by The Public Theater 2007 Deleted Scenes from the Love of John Smith and Pocahontas – short play • Commissioned by America in Play, founder/producer Lynn Thomson • Performed in March 2007 at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Lynn Thomson, dir. 2005 Parte Nopeo – Narrative Poem • Performed with Studio 42, NYC • Published on 90ways.com, an internet magazine Shatterings – Play • Produced by Theatre Collide, Houston, TX. Stephanie Wittels, dir. 2003 No Man’s Land, Greenland – Solo Show • Produced at Infernal Bridegroom Productions’ Axiom Theatre, Houston, to sold out houses • Produced at Brown University, Providence, RI 2002 Dollface and Stench & Do It – Two One-Act Plays • Produced at Brown University, Providence, RI 1999 A String of Breath – Play with Music • Produced at the Downtown EZ Credit Theatre, Houston, TX to sold out houses L I T E R A R Y E X P E R I E N C E • National & International Coordinator for Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days / 365 Plays Festival • Literary Associate at The Public Theater / New York Shakespeare Festival from 2004 – 2006 under artistic directors George C. Wolfe and Oskar Eustis • Dramaturg/Writer/Performer in Mumugi Watchu, a play in Kinyarwanda, designed to stimulate discussion on sexual health stigmas associated with AIDS in the Rwandan community of Nyagatare. A F F I L I A T I O N S • American Playwright selected for participation in The Old Vic New Voices US/UK Exchange 2008 • Member of the 2007 Young Writers’ Programme at the Royal Court Theatre, London • Member of America-In-Play, a writers group that creates contemporary responses to early American theater and culture. Lynn Thomson, Founder E D U C A T I O N SPECIALTY: Edward Albee’s playwriting class of ten at University of Houston * only High School Student ever invited to attend Nilo Cruz’s Playwriting class at Brown University Worked with Ntozake Shange and others to re-imagine her novel Liliane for the stage One-on-one semester study with playwright Donna DiNovelli to create Shatterings, a play UNIVERSITY: Brown University, BA in Theater, Class of 2003 Università degli Studi di Bologna & Accademia Belli Arti through an academic exchange program References available upon request
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