Actors & Writers Biographies
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| A selection of these and other A&W short plays wil be premiered in MMSC's performance |
About Actors & Writers and Odd Shorts Actors & Writers inaugurated its Shorts Festival in 1994, with a two-evening program called Brand New Shorts. The following |
| Katherine Burger Love Hurts |
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Katherine Burger 's play Morphic Resonance has been produced at the Donmar Warehouse Theater in London; Theatre de l'Atelier in Paris; Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut; and over Radio BBC. Her one-act Way Deep has been produced throughout the United States and Canada. Katherine has written two plays on commission for South Coast Repertory Theater in California, and has had short plays done at many theaters. She is currently enrolled in the BMI Musical Theater workshop, and is working on two musicals. She has also written screenplays and is a visual artist. For the past 14 summers she has been program director of the Artists-in-Residence Program at the Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock. |
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| Laura Shaine Cunningham Outsourced |
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LAURA SHAINE CUNNINGHAM is a playwright, journalist, and author of seven books. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New Yorker and the New York Times . She has seven full-length plays including Sleeping Arrangements, Beautiful Bodies , and Bang . She is widely produced, and has short plays in the Vintage anthologies Take Ten, Take Ten II, Leading Women, and Laugh Lines. |
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| Mary Gallagher Sandwich |
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MARY GALLAGHER 's plays have been produced throughout the U.S. and in many other countries. Father Dreams, Chocolate Cake, How To Say Goodbye, De Donde? and other full-length plays are available from Dramatists Play Service. Many of her short plays are anthologized. She has written 13 screenplays and is currently writing a 19th-century novel, Exquisite in Mourning. |
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Sigrid Heath THE PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF ROMANTIC LOVE Photo Credit: Dion Ogust |
SIGRID HEATH received the Berrilla Kerr award for playwriting in 2000. Another of her short plays, 21 , has been published in Take Ten II (Vintage, 2003). Wingbone , her one-woman play about aviatrix Beryl Markham, premiered at Actors & Writers and has seen several successful productions. She also writes short fiction and features. |
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Mikhail Horowitz MERE VESSELS
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MIKHAIL HOROWITZ is a poet, performer, and unrepentant paranomasiast. He is the author of Big League Poets (City Lights) and two volumes of poetry, and his jazz fables and folk parodies have been featured on seven CDs, including The Blues of the Birth (Sundazed Records) and Bring It On Home, Vol. II (Columbia Records). His short play We Cannot Know the Mind of God is included in Laugh Lines , a Vintage Books anthology. |
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| Adam Lefevre THE DEFENESTRATION OF CITIZEN CANDIDATE X |
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ADAM LEFEVRE 's plays include Pangaea, Yucca Flats, The Crashing of Moses Flying-By, Windowwashers, Grant at Windsor , and Americansaint , with productions in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club and Manhattan Punchline, and regionally at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Theatre Three in Dallas. His play Waterbabies won the 1999 Heideman Award. He is also a poet ( Everything All at Once , Wesleyan Press) and an actor. |
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Nicole Quinn RELATIVE TIME |
NICOLE QUINN 's plays are published by Playscripts, Viking, Vintage, and Smith & Kraus. She has written for John Singleton, Jodie Foster, HBO, Showtime, and network television. She wrote and directed the feature film Racing Daylight , starring David Strathairn and Melissa Leo. Slap & Tickle will shoot in 2008. |
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Nina Shengold EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE Photo credit: Michael Weisbrot |
NINA SHENGOLD 's short plays have been performed in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United States, and Olivebridge. She won a Writers Guild Award for her teleplay Labor of Love and a Henry Miller Award for her novel Clearcut (Anchor, 2005). With Eric Lane, she has edited 12 theatre anthologies for Viking Penguin and Vintage Books, most recently Laugh Lines: Short Comic Plays.
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David Smilow HIT THE BUTTONS
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David Smilow is--conveniently enough--an actor and a writer, whose stage roles have included a deer, a dog, a snake, a monkey, a bird, a suitcase, a house, and another dog, though as a playwright he has never written a single word for any of the above. Perhaps this is because he thinks like a human and acts like an animal. Or a suitcase. In any event, being an Actors & Writers member has been one of the joys of his upstate life and he is delighted to have Hit the Buttons included in this anthology.
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Mary Louise Wilson Lost
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| MARY LOUISE WILSON coauthored the play Full Gallop, which ran successfully off-Broadway and subsequently in London, then in France, Italy, and several other countries. Her short plays have been published in Leading Women II, and she has written articles for the New York Times, American Theatre , and The New Yorker. | |
Actors & Writers Photo Credit: Jennifer May |
1) Nina Shengold, Davis Hall, Brian MacReady 2) Shelley Wyant, David Smilow, Sigrid Heath, Nicole Quinn, Joe White 3) Katherine Burger, Mikhail Horowitz, Mary Gallagher, Sarah Chodoff, Carol |
