Playwriting Awards and Productions
Shank Playwriting Fellow 2011 at the Vineyard Theatre, NYC
Year-long residency for graduate MFA Playwright
Page73 Playwriting Fellowship 2007
Year-long support to one early-career playwright in New York City. Page 73 provides artistic and financial resources to one emerging playwright as he or she develops a new play. The fellowship year includes at least one public presentation of the new play.
Brown University 2006 Resource Scholar and Artist
University funding for research and development of site-specific performance project
Playwright
Salamander Leviathan (a new casio-pop fable w/ the band David’s Pegasus)
Playwrights Center of Minneapolis Core Apprentice Workshop, June 2012
Ars Nova ANT FEST, NYC, Directed by Jess Chayes, Halloween
The Baldwin New Play Festival at UC San Diego, Directed by Anthony Luciano, April 2011
Winner of the KCACTF Musical Theatre Award from the Kennedy Center, 2011
Reading, Berkeley Rep, CA, Directed by Marc Boucai, August 2011
Reading, New Georges, NYC, Directed by Jess Chayes, July 2011
Un-Hinged: a silent opera
WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, June 2011
Finalist, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, 2011
Phantom Band
Walden Theatre, Louisville, KY, Directed by Alec Volz, Nov 2011
The Baldwin New Play Workshop at UC San Diego, Directed by Tom Dugdale, April 2010
Voice & Vision, ENVISION Retreat, Bard College, NY, June 2010
Reading, Dixon Place, NYC, Directed by Tom Dugdale, Jan 2011
Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, 2011
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 Development Workshop, DC, Nov 2010
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
Semi-Finalist, Trustus Playwrights' Festival, Columbia, SC, 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.
Music Under the Influence of Computers
Calit2, directed by Rick Snow, San Diego, CA,Nov 2010
Theater for Young Audiences
For Feet’s Sake – an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid for middle school
Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Directed by Jon Burnett, July 2011
Light Embrace – an adaptation of the Icarus/Daedalus myth for high school Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, Directed by Andrew Hurteau, August 2011
Please Be a Dream El Camino Creek Elementary School, April 2010
Cambodia Play Dana Middle School, March 2011
Commissions
The Assembly, NYC, Summer 2008
LiveGirls! June Carter Cash Project, Seattle, WA September 2008
A Children’s Play for El Camino Creek Elementary School, Carlsbad, CA, Spring 2010
A Children’s Play for Dana Middle School, San Diego, CA,Spring 2011
Berkeley Rep School of Theatre – two plays for young adults, Berkeley, CA, Summer 2011
Residencies and Conferences:
Tofte Lake Residency, Individual Artists Week, MN, Aug 2011
WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, Baltimore, MD, June 2011
New York Mills, MN, Sept 2010
Travel Grant to Guca, Serbia from UC San Diego, August 2010
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
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Naomi Iizuka, Head. Other faculty: Allan Havis, Adele Shank, Michael Friedman, Cynthia Hopkins,
Karl Gajdusek, Bobby Bowman, Annie Weisman Macomber
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:
Part-Time Dramatic Writing Faculty, Cal State San Marcos, CA, Fall 2010
- Taught Playwriting & Screenwriting
- Twice a week, 1hr 15min each class
Playwriting Instructor, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, Fall 2008-Spring 2011
- Taught 9 sections of Introduction to Playwriting
- 2 sections of Intermediate Playwriting
- Twice a week, 1hr 20min each class
- autonomous sections w/o lecture sessions
Dramaturge, Sally Oswald’s Plutonics, Brown Graduate New Plays Festival, Providence, RI, March-April 2003
Script Consultant, Theatre Forum, UC San Diego, Fall 2008-Spring 2011
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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