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Alan Bowne
Alan Bowne was an American playwright and author. His plays include BEIRUT, FORTY-DEUCE, SHARON AND BILLY, and THE BEANY AND CECIL SHOW, many of which are available from Broadway Play Publishing Inc. He was a member of New Dramatists. He also wrote one novel, Wally Wonderstruck. He died of complications related to AIDS at the age of forty-four.
Read More...Bill Bozzone
Bill Bozzone’s published plays include ROSE COTTAGES, HOUSE ARREST, KOREA, and BUCK FEVER AND OTHER PLAYS. Among his published one acts are SONNY DEREE’S LIFE FLASHES BEFORE HIS EYES, SALVATION, WAR, and SAXOPHONE MUSIC. For film he wrote the screenplay Full Moon in Blue Water, which starred Gene Hackman, and co-wrote the ACE-nominated The Last Elephant (released as The Ivory Hunters). Bill Bozzone is a member of New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre. He lives in Connecticut with novelist Tricia Bauer, and their daughter, Lia.
Read More...Michael Bradford
Michael Bradford is an award-winning director and professor of dramatic arts at the University of Connecticut. Bradford’s work has been produced Off-Broadway at the American Place Theatre, and elsewhere in New York at the Lark Developmental Theatre, The Flea, The Access and the NADA Theatre. Regionally he has been produced at the Lorna Littleway Theatre, Louisville, KY and ETA Creative Theatre, Chicago, IL. He has received the Manhattan Theatre Club Playwright fellowship, the LARK Theatre Writers Residency and the New York Stage and Film Residency, New York. His plays have received readings and work-shops at the Manhattan Theatre Club,…
Read More...Michael Brady
Michael Brady’s first play, SARA, was produced by Equity Library Theatre in 1980 at Lincoln Center. KORCZAK’S CHILDREN won the first Jesu Award in Playwriting and was produced by the Boston College Dramatics Society in 1982. TO GILLIAN ON HER 37TH BIRTHDAY was developed through the literary department of The Ensemble Studio Theatre and M Square Entertainment and moved to Circle-in-the-Square. GILLIAN was awarded the Oppenheimer Award for best play of 1983, and was produced as a film in 1996 by Sony Pictures. Other stage works include: TWO BEARS BLINKING, produced by New Theatre of Miami, SEMPER FI, produced…
Read More...Alan Brandt
Alan Brandt was born in Brooklyn in 1923 and attended the University of Michigan before serving in Europe as a German language translator for the Army Signal Intelligence Unit, during World War II. He began the varied career that preceded playwriting as a publicist, representing notables ranging from Howdy Doody to Harry Belafonte. In addition, he became the lyricist for songs, including the standard “That’s All.” His work has been recorded by top singers, among them Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Mel Torme, and Peggy Lee. For many years, he was a dealer in tribal art and a major source…
Read More...Michael Henry Brown
Born in the Bronx, Michael Henry Brown was a playwright and screenwriter. He graduated from Lehman College and earned an MFA from Columbia University in 1987. He also studied at the Hammerstein Center for Theatre Studies. His work includes over 20 plays and numerous film scripts. His most successful productions have been THE DAY THE BRONX DIED, an examination of homophobia and black and Jewish relations, and ASCENSION DAY, a story of the Nat Turner slave rebellion of 1831. Brown’s plays have been produced at theaters across the country, including Playwrights Horizons, the Mark Taper Forum, Long Wharf Theatre,…
Read More...Darcy Parker Bruce
Darcy Parker Bruce is a playwright and sound designer from New Haven, CT, and a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Smith College. Their currently part of the faculty at several Connecticut Colleges, where she teaches Playwriting and Theater Activism. Their work has traveled across the US from New York to Hawaii, and has been developed through Smith College, the Great Plains Theater Conference, The Bechdel Group, Strange Sun Theatre’s Greenhouse Series, and 20% Theatre Chicago. They was the recipient of a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and was recently granted ATHE’s 2018 Judith…
Read More...Georg Büchner
Georg Büchner was born in Germany in 1813. He studied medicine, campaigned for social change, and wrote two plays, DANTON’S DEATH and LEONE AND LENA, before starting work on WOYZECK, which was based on a real criminal case. Büchner died of typhus at aged twenty-three.
Read More...Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, 15 May 1891 – 10 March 1940, was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He is also known for his novel The White Guard, his plays Ivan Vasilievich, Flight (also called The Run), The Days of the Turbins, and other works of the 1920s and 1930s. He wrote mostly about the horrors of the Russian Civil War and about the fate…
Read More...Carlos Bulosan
Carlos Bulosan was born in the Philippines in the rural farming village of Mangusmana, near the town of Binalonan (Pangasinan province, Luzon island). He was the son of a farmer and spent most of his upbringing in the countryside with his family. Like many families in the Philippines, Carlos’s family struggled to survive during times of economic hardship. Many families were impoverished and many more would suffer because of the conditions in the Philippines created by US colonization. Rural farming families like Carlos’s family experienced severe economic disparity due to the growing concentration of wealth and power in the…
Read More...Victor Bumbalo
Victor Bumbalo is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced worldwide and translated into five languages. He is the recipient of an Ingram Merrill Award for playwriting. His play NIAGARA FALLS followed its Off-Broadway run with subsequent openings in over fifty cities throughout the United States, England, and Australia. ADAM AND THE EXPERTS opened to critical success Off-Broadway and had numerous productions in the United States and Canada. WHAT ARE TUESDAYS LIKE? was produced throughout the United States and in Germany, Japan, England, Sweden, and Costa Rica. QUESTA premiered in Los Angeles and had productions in Chicago and…
Read More...Victor L Cahn
Victor L. Cahn has written numerous plays produced Off-Broadway and regionally, including VILLAINOUS COMPANY, ROSES IN DECEMBER, EMBRACEABLE ME, FIT TO KILL, DALLY WITH THE DEVIL, A DISH FOR THE GODS, ROMANTIC TRAPEZOID, GETTING THE BUSINESS, BOTTOM OF THE NINTH, and SHERLOCK SOLO, a one-man show that he performed. He has appeared onstage throughout the Capital Region of New York, taking leading roles in works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Pinter, Coward, Ayckbourn, Simon, Gurney, Christie, and Knott. He is Professor Emeritus of English at Skidmore College, and author of fifteen books (seven on Shakespeare), and his articles and reviews have…
Read More...Alessandro Camon
Alessandro Camon is a writer and producer born in Italy and currently living in Los Angeles. He is best known for writing The Messenger, a contemporary drama about military officers delivering casualty notifications, with writer/director Oren Moverman. The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, Spirit Award, and Humanitas Award, and it won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the Berlin Film Festival. Alessandro’s producing credits include Owning Mahowny, Thank You For Smoking, The Cooler, American Psycho, Bad Lieutenant: New Orleans and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. He is currently writing Black Lion, with Andrew Garfield attached to…
Read More...Jack Canfora
John Lawrence “Jack” Canfora is an American playwright, actor, musician, and teacher whose works include PLACE SETTING, JERICHO, and POETIC LICENSE.
Read More...Terry John Care
After a lengthy period as a newspaper and broadcast journalist, Terry Care underwent a career change and practiced as a trial attorney for 23 years. During his time as a lawyer, he served twelve years as a state senator. He subsequently was district director for a U.S. Congresswoman. A Kansas native, he entered the Army shortly after high school graduation, and pulled a tour in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader.
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