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 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