Playwrights at Work
John Lahr is the author of fifteen books. Among them are his bestselling biographies of his father, Bert Lahr (Notes on a Cowardly Lion), and the playwright Joe Orton (Prick Up Your Ears, which was made into a feature film). His Dame Edna Everage ... [... more]
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River Jordan
River Jordan is a storyteller of the southern variety and spent ten years as a playwright with the Loblolly Theatre group. She now teaches and speaks on "The Power of Story" around the country. She is currently completing a new work of fiction . [... more]
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Pearl Cleage
Pearl Cleage is the author of Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to Truth and Deals with the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot. An accomplished Playwright, she teaches playwriting at Spelman College, is a cofounder of the literary magazine ... [... more]
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Peter Sagal
Peter Sagal is the host of the Peabody Award-winning NPR news quiz Wait Wait . . . Don't Tell Me! He is a playwright, a screenwriter, a commentator on NPR's All Things Considered, a onetime extra in a Michael Jackson music video, and a regular ... [... more]
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Joan Ackermann
Joan Ackermann is a playwright, journalist, and screenwriter. Over a dozen of her plays have been published and produced around the country, and her adaptation of her play Off the Map was released as a feature film directed by Campbell Scott. ... [... more]
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Cai Emmons
Cai Emmons's debut novel, His Mother's Son, won the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel in 2003. She is also a playwright, editor, director, and screenwriter, with many credits and awards to her name. Her plays have been produced at the American Place ... [... more]
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Mr. Mark Stein
Mark Stein is a playwright and screenwriter. His plays have been performed off-Broadway and at theaters throughout the country. His films include Housesitter, with Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. He has taught writing and drama at American ... [... more]
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Sheldon Oberman
As an award-winning writer, teacher, performer, playwright, and filmmaker, Sheldon Oberman was a dynamo of creative activity. An educator for more than twenty years, he was a member of the Manitoba Writers' Guild; the Manitoba Association of ... [... more]
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Pamela Gien
In this heartrending and inspiring novel set against the gorgeous, vast landscape of South Africa under apartheid, award-winning playwright Pamela Gien tells the story of two families-one black, one white-separated by racism, connected by ... [... more]
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Nina Shengold
Nina Shengold is an award-winning playwright and artistic director of the theatre company Actors & Writers. This one-of-a-kind anthology features thirty-six hilarious short plays by major American playwrights and emerging new voices, all ... [... more]
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Tim Beiser
was born on April Fools' Day in Los Angeles, California. After earning a degree in Economics at Rocky Mountain College in Montana, he moved to New York City where he spent sixteen years as a playwright and science fiction short-story writer. He ... [... more]
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Gordon Dahlquist
Playwright Gordon Dahlquist was born in the Pacific Northwest and lives in New York City. He is the author of the international bestseller Here begins an extraordinary alliance-and a brutal and tender, shocking, and electrifying adventure to end ... [... more]
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