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Playwriting Awards and Productions

Page73 Playwriting Fellowship 2007

Brown University 2006 Resource Scholar and Artist

Phantom Band

The Baldwin New Play Workshop at UC San Diego, Directed by Tom Dugdale, April 2010

Voice & Vision, ENVISION Retreat, Bard College, NY, June 2010

Shortlisted for the Orchard Project Residency, 2010

Clementine and the Cyber Ducks

Ontological Hysteric Theater Incubator w/ The Assembly, NYC, Directed by Jess Chayes, May 2009

The Baldwin New Play Workshop at UC San Diego, Directed by Adam Arian, April 2009

Hangar Theatre Wedge Playwrights Lab, Ithaca, NY, Directed by Brandon Pape, July 2009

Inkwell Inkubator Reading, Oct 2009

Finalist, Leah Ryan Prize, 2010

Filling

Equity Workshop, Page73 Productions, NYC, Directed by Lear deBessonet, December 2007

Reading, Primary Stages, Page 73 Productions, Directed by Davis McCallum, NYC, June 2007

Reading, New Dramatists, NYC, Directed by Katherine Kovner, March 2009

Northern Writes - New Play Festival, Bangor, Maine, Directed by Nathan Halvorson, June 2008,

Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco, CA 2008

Spoken Insects

Published, Midway Journal, Volume 3, Issue 2, January 2009

Workshop, Dixon Place, NYC, Directed by Alex Torra November 2007

Staged Reading, PossEble Theatre Company, NYC, Directed by Michael Silverstone, October 2007

Brown University Graduate New Plays Festival, Directed by Peter Sampieri, February 2006

Finalist, Millennium Playwriting Contest, Stepping Stone Theatre Company, NYC, 2007

Anaerobic Respiration

New York International Fringe Festival, Access Theatre, Directed by Alex Torra, August 2005

Winner: 2005 National Southwest Theater Association Playwriting Contest and Reading at the
SWTFA Annual Conference, October 2005

Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Alternate Selection, February 2006              

Semi-finalist, Lark Play Development Center, NYC, 2006

Finalist, Perishable Theatre’s International Women’s Playwriting Festival, top 13 of 604 entries, 2006

Moscow , Utah

Bus Barn Stage Company Summer Festival 2006, Los Altos, CA, Directed by Barbara Cannon June-July 2006

Reading, Abingdon Theatre, NYC, Directed by Jocelyn Sawyer,February 2007

Staged Reading, n.u.f.a.n. ensemble, Chicago, March 2008

Staged Reading, The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco, Directed by Alice Shikina, June 2006

Staged Reading, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, December 2004

Finalist, n.u.f.a.n. ensemble2009 Production, Chicago, 2008

Finalist, Boomerang Theatre's First Flight Reading Series, NYC, 2006

Finalist, Actors' Theatre of Santa Cruz Full Length Play Competition, 2006        

Finalist, Orlando-UCF Shakespeare Festival’s PlayFest, 2005

Finalist, “Risk is This” at the Cutting Ball Theater, San Francisco, 2005

Honorable Mention, Playwrights Theater, Dallas, TX, 2007      

Semi-Finalist, Reverie's Next Generation Playwrights Contest, NYC, 2006

Semi-Finalist, Trustus Playwrights’ Festival, Columbia, SC, 2008

Teen Flush

Reading, PBR Series, NYC curated by Daniel Manley, Directed by Linsay Firman, February 2008

Finalist, Landless Theatre Company, Washington DC, 2008  

Venus Fly Trap

Staged reading at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco, Directed by Marc Boucai, August 2003

Peripatetic Playwrights (a collaborative, location based writing project), Brown University February 2006

Galaxy Couch (Solo Show)

Strasberg Theatre, Providence, RI May 2006

Apricot Supernovas (One-Act)

Theater Limina, Summer Shorts, Minneapolis, MN, June 2008

Live Girls! Quickies Short Play Festival, Seattle, May 2008

Goshen College, Indiana, February 2007

Published in 14 Hills, San Francisco State University, March 2006

The O’Neill Theater Center On the Road New Play Development Workshop, July 2005

Staged Reading at First Stage, Los Angeles, May 2005

Reading, Great Plains Theater Conference, Omaha, NE, May 2007

Finalist, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award, 2006

Finalist, Nantucket Short Play Festival, 2005

Barbed-Wire Minute (One-Act)

New Perspective Festival, San Diego, CA, June 2009

End Times Productions, 'Vignettes for the Apocalypse’, NYC, February 2008

Live Girls! Quickies Short Play Festival, Seattle, June 2007

Pan Theatre Play Festival, San Francisco, September 2006

Ashland New Plays Festival, July 2006

Attic Theatre One -Act Marathon, Los Angeles, August 2006

Panoply Arts Festival 10 -Minute Playwright Competition, Huntsville, Alabama, April 2006

Third Place Theater in the Raw Playwriting Contest, Vancouver, BC, 2007

Reading, Last Frontier Theater Conference, Valdez, AK, June 2007

Finalist, UMBC IN10 Festival, Baltimore, MD, 2006

Biotintillation

Short Leaps, Three Wise Monkeys, San Francisco, CA, September 2008

Finalist, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award, 2007

Finalist, 2nd Annual Toronto Ten Minute Festival, 2007  

Burn the Houseplants and Run Away with me to a Lonely Spot on the Edge of a Cliff (One-Act)

LiveGirls! Seattle, September 2008

KPBS Radio Broadcast, Directed by Adam Arian, May 2009

The Rime of the Four Albatross(One-Act)

Riant Theater Strawberry One- Act Festival, NYC, Directed by Greg Edwards, February 2006

Theatre Limina Summer Shorts, Minneapolis, MN, Summer 2007

Macaw (Monologue)

International One Page Play Competition, Harvest Theatre, Toledo September 2006

Riverside Theatre Monologue Festival, Iowa City, Iowa September 2006

Molly of the Flood (Monologue)

This Woman’s Work Theatre, NYC February 2007

Sexual Selection: Darwin and Shakespeare Ponder Love                                                               Fall 2009

UCSD Department of Theater and Dance, Directed by Kim Rubinstein and Yolande Snaith
Created the new, non-Shakespeare text with the actors based on Charles Darwin’s theory of  
Sexual Selection and his relationship with his cousin Emma.

La Mandragola                                                                                                                                    Fall 2009

UCSD Department of Theater and Dance, Directed bynIsis Saratial Misdary. Adapted the text by Niccolò Machiavelli into a world of So Cal pyramid schemes and religious healers.

Please Be a Dream, a children’s play

El Camino Creek Elementary School, April 2010

Commissions

A Children’s Play for El Camino Creek Elementary School, Carlsbad, CA, Spring 2010

The Assembly, NYC, Summer 2008

LiveGirls! June Carter Cash Project, Seattle, WA September 2008

Residencies and Conferences:

Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference, Visiting Playwriting Fellow July 2009

Santa Fe Art Institute, NM Aug-Sept 09

MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH Dec 08-Jan 09

YADDO, Saratoga Springs, NY May-June 2008

UCROSS Foundation, 4 week Residency, Wyoming October 2007

Page 73 Residency at Yale University, New Haven, CT August 2007

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artist-in-Residence, Florida, 3 week Residency, Grant Recipient August 2007

World Interplay, (US delegate) Queensland, Australia July 2007

Great Plains Theatre Conference, (Apricot Supernovas) Omaha, NE May 2007

Last Frontier Theatre Conference, (Barbed Wire Minute) Valdez, AK June 2007

Selected for Alden B. Dow Creativity Fellowship and Residency Summer 2006

Finalist, Sewanee Writers Conference, TN Summer 2009

Awards:

Shortlisted, TS Eliot US/UK Exchange, 2010

Semi-Finalist, New Dramatists, 2008

Nominee for Wendy Wasserstein Prize, 2009

Education:

UCSD Graduate MFA Playwriting Program, La Jolla, CA 2011

  • Directed by Naomi Iizuka

Tisch Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, NYU, MA in Performance Studies, May 2008

  • MA in Performance Studies

Brown University, Providence, RI May 2006

  • BA with double concentration in Theatre and English,
  • Graduate Playwriting with Erin Cressida Wilson and Honors Playwriting Thesis with Paula Vogel, July 2003

Work Experience:

Playwriting Instructor, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, Fall 2008, Fall 2009,  Spring 2010

Playwriting Instructor, El Camino Creek Elementary School, Carlsbad, CA, Spring 2010             

Dramaturge, Sally Oswald’s Plutonics, Brown Graduate New Plays Festival, Providence, RI, March-April 2003

Script Reader

  • La Jolla Playhouse, CA, 2008-present
  • Trinity Repertory Literary Department, Providence, RI Spring 2003
  • O’Neill Theater Center, Waterford, CT Fall 2005

Production Assistant

  • John Yearley’s Leap, Abingdon Theater, New York, NY June 2004
  • Christine Evan’s Slow Falling Bird, Playwrights Foundation New Plays Festival at Marsh Theatre July-August 2003

Literary Intern for New Dramatists, New York , NY Sept -Dec 2006

Literary Intern for the O’Neill Theater Center , Waterford, CT July-August 2005

Literary Intern for Abingdon Theater , New York , NY June-August 2004

Literary Intern for Magic Theatre , San Francisco, CA May-August 2003

Member of the Dramatists Guild and the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis

 

 
 
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