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Dramatic Writing (for nonfiction screen work, see film & tv)

  • MFA in Creative Writing/Dramatic Writing, Goddard College (thesis advisors Deborah Brevoort, Susan Kim), 2010
  • Artist's Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2016
  • Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2016
  • Guest artist, Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive: 2016, 2011, 2010
  • Member. The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights Center, Plays in Progress (Hudson, NY), The Ninth Floor (NYC), and the National New Play Network
A Firefly in August  (10 pages, comedy, 1M/1F)
A fortunate case of mistaken identity.         
*  Reading, "Second Helping - A La Carte/New Short Play Readings," the WhatIf?Theatre company, at Troy Kitchen (July 2016) 
*  Reading, "Plays in Progress: Short Play Festival," Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY (May 2014)
*  Production, 2014 Warner International Playwrights Festival, Warner Theatre, Torrington, CT., October 2014 (One of 12 plays selected out of more than 200 entries)   
*  Production, Boston Theater Marathon XVII, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Boston, Ma., May 2015 (50 of 400 chosen)
       
Leaving Ibsen (drama, 2M/2F)
Drama, full length
*  Finalist (top 10 out of 400), Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award, Abingdon, Theatre, 2010
*  Semi-finalist, Ashland Festival of New Plays, 2011

Zero Hour (1M)
J. Edgar Hoover on a bad day.  
*  Reading at The Room, New Georges, New York, NY  

Pine (1F)
One-page play
*  Finalist in the Lamia Ink! competition 

Late Transitional Man
Comedy
*  Semi-finalist, L.Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award 

Skylark
Historical drama
*  Public staged reading, Westbrook College in association with Portland Stage Company 
*  Public staged reading, New York in Film and Television (as screenplay)
*  Finalist, Nantucket Film Festival Screenwriting Competition (as screenplay)
*  Finalist, Sundance Filmmakers Lab (as screenplay)
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