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A.D. Hasselbring
Author and lyricist A.D. Hasselbring attended high school in Lexington, KY and received a B.A. in Literature and Composition from Pepperdine University. In Los Angeles, he established Common Man Stories and co-founded Fifth Talent Productions. His written works include the one act works Kendra and Sometimes We Sleep as well as numerous children’s stories and prose. Among his full length works are Passing Time and the new rock drama Here.I.Am. His most recent productions have been seen at such California venues as the Chance, Curtis, Complex, and Falcon Theatres. His lyrics have been sung READ MORE...
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Beth Dotson Brown
When I was a girl, someone introduced me to the idea that you can never truly understand another person’s experience unless you’re able to walk in his or her shoes. I wish I could remember who planted that idea in the malleable mind of my youth because in many ways it has formed who I am and the kind of work I do.
I wanted to try on all sorts of shoes, so I began writing fiction. In a short story, play or novel, I can become a person I am not and, through my characters, see the world through different eyes.
Writing creatively wasn’t enough for me. I decided to also delve READ MORE...
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Chloe Bolan
I consider myself primarily a writer with published short stories, essays, poems, articles and a long science fiction novel (in search of a publisher). However, most of my awards and honors have come from scriptwriting. I’m a member of Chicago’s Writers Bloc, which has our play synopses online and am a past member of Glencoe Writers.
M. Kiki is a play dear to my heart. I wrote, produced, and directed it, and along the way received a grant from Target Corporation. Of course, none of it would have been possible without those who fostered productions and all the actors and the musician READ MORE...
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Craig Kenworthy
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Craig Kenworthy’s plays have been staged at theatres across the country. “But That’s Not What We Ordered” won the Best Script Award at Equinox (MT) Theatre’s 5th Annual One Act Festival. It, “Line” and “The Blue Book Value of Small Things” were all finalists in the prestigious Ten by Ten in the Triangle competition at the ArtsCenter in North Carolina. “Line” and “So Much for Seatbelts” also received recognition from the Lakeshore Players (MN) Ten Minute Play Festival. All four of these award-winning plays are included in his collection of short plays, “Life’s Little Exams.”
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Bruce (D.B.) Williams
D.B Williams has logged thirty years as a speech and general-purpose writer for various political candidates, Governors and other interest groups in Kentucky. He is currently head lobbyist for the Kentucky Conservation Committee, a consortium of environmental groups. He has written feature articles for the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Lexington Herald-Leader and also served as film critic for the Lexington Herald-Leader for four years. His short story “Winter Eyes” published in the November 2007 Literary House Review was nominated for a Pushcart Series Prize. His play, “TIM: A Christmas READ MORE...
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Dan Borengasser
Crisis Line has had two staged readings – First Night in Fayetteville, AR and the Camino Real Playhouse in San Juan Capistrano, CA. It was performed as a radio play by Shoestring Radio Theatre in San Francisco.
In addition to stage plays, Dan Borengasser has written science fiction stories, screenplays and children’s fiction, and was a syndicated humor columnist. He blushes to admit that one of the science fiction stories was nominated for a Hugo and that he’s won numerous awards for stage plays and screenplays.
Borengasser, who enjoys speaking of himself in the third p READ MORE...
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Donald Dewey
Donald Dewey has had some 30 plays staged in the United States and Europe. He has been a member of New York's Actors Studio and the Edward Albee Theater Group, among other organizations. He has also published 27 books of fiction, drama, and nonfiction, including widely translated biographies of actors James Stewart and Marcello Mastroianni. His literary awards include those named after Nelson Algren and Tennessee Williams.
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Ellen West
Ellen West has had over twenty productions of her plays since she began writing for the stage when she moved to Portland in 1992. First she wrote sketches for Northwest Senior Theatre. Encouraged to begin a professional career as a playwright by having her earliest plays accepted for the New Rave Festival in 1995 and 1996, she went on to receive a first prize for her short play Bertha, Helen, Vivian, or Jane in 2004 and another first prize for her full length comedy, Losing Things in 2006. The plays were produced in New York and Seattle, respectively. In 2009 Losing Things was a semi-finalist READ MORE...
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Evan Gulford-Blake
Evan Guilford-Blake is the author of about 35 produced plays which have received more than 120 productions across the U.S., in Canada, Australia, the UK and Israel. He has won 31 playwriting competitions (among them: the Utah PlayFest for Ceremonies of Prayer [published by Heartland Plays]; the Aurand Harris/New England Theatre Conference and the Jackie White Memorial awards for Telling William Tell [TYA Scripts]; and the Texas Nonprofit Theatres and Saints and Sinners competitions for Nighthawks [neoNuma Arts]. He is the only two-time winner of the Tennessee Williams one-act competition, for READ MORE...
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Everett Robert
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Everett Robert is a playwright, actor, and director with over 20 years of experience. A Kansas native, he graduated with from Colby Community College with an AAS in Radio and Television Communications and an AAA in English with a Drama Emphasis before attending Emporia State University. Everett is a member of Dramatists Guild of America and the Kansas Writer's Association. Productions of his works include "My Deliverer", "Allie in Wonderland", and "The Absolutely True Story of Tom Sawyer as told by Becky Thatcher". He has acted in a variety of different shows including "The Complete Works READ MORE...
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George A Freek
George Freek's plays have been produced by the Organic Theater in Chicago, the Milwaukee Repertory, the West Coast Ensemble in Los Angeles, and the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, as well as the 13th Street Theater, Love Creek Productions, and the Theater-Studio in New York. He has been playwright-in-residence at the New American Theater in Rockford, Southern Methodist University, and Southern Illinois University, and has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Becoming Strangers was first produced at Southern Illinois University, and r READ MORE...
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Gerald Arthur Moore
Gerald Arthur Moore (Art) is a Canadian from Ancaster, Ontario. He currently lives in Moncton, New Brunswick where he teaches high school English and History and coaches rugby. Moore, a poet and playwright, was formerly an Officer in the Army. He studied at Oxford, University and graduated with a Bachelor of Education degree from Crandall University. His plays include Youth Criminal Justice Act – The Play, My Five Near-Death Experiences, and Just Another School Shooting. These plays received grant funding from Arts New Brunswick. Moore recently participated in a humanitarian mission in H READ MORE...
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Gordon Bennett
Professor Bennett taught Communication Arts and supervised the theatre Program for 30 years at Eastern College/University in St. Davids, PA (USA). His first published play ("God is My Fuhrer") examined the turbulent life of Martin Niemoeller, one of the heroic figures in Nazi Germany. Since then he has published many one-act plays with both secular and church-related publishers, and three books on church-related theatre.
Off-stage, Bennett has a passion for peace and justice issues, and he has written many op-eds, parables and plays on political affairs. In 1987 he published a book READ MORE...
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Gordon Bennett
Professor Bennett taught Communication Arts and supervised the theatre Program for 30 years at Eastern College/University in St. Davids, PA (USA). His first published play ("God is My Fuhrer") examined the turbulent life of Martin Niemoeller, one of the heroic figures in Nazi Germany. Since then he has published many one-act plays with both secular and church-related publishers, and three books on church-related theatre.
Off-stage, Bennett has a passion for peace and justice issues, and he has written many op-eds, parables and plays on political affairs. In 1987 he published a book READ MORE...
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A.D. Hasselbring, Ben Murrie, Rob Blaney & Pete Deutschman
A.D. HASSELBRING (Book/Lyrics)- After attending high school in Lexington, KY, A.D. Hasselbring received a B.A. in Literature and Composition from Pepperdine University. In Los Angeles, he established Common Man Stories and co-founded Fifth Talent Productions. His written works include the short plays Kendra and Sometimes We Sleep as well as numerous children’s stories and prose. His most recent productions have been seen at such California venues as the Chance, Curtis, Complex, and Falcon Theatres. His lyrics have been sung by many of Broadway’s best voices and his songs have been heard READ MORE...
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J.C. Svec
J.C. has always been intrigued by what he considers a blip on a timeline or the “slice of life,” examining and interpreting that moment, and then re-presenting it, in some form, for mass consumption. The ability and opportunity to investigate the off-handed comment that changes the dynamic of a relationship is a process he personally relishes. For J.C., the researching of a long forgotten period of time and the history that accompanies it presents the ultimate challenge to the details of language, setting and character. Then the ultimate reward is for a reader or an audience to savor the eff READ MORE...
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Jane and Jim Jeffries
Jane and Jim Jeffries have been writing plays together since 1995, and they are still married. (When your spouse kills your favorite protagonist . . . .) We have several plays published with Pioneer Drama Service and are pleased to be published with Heartland Plays. We also sell madrigal dinner scripts online at www.madrigaldinners.com. Our madrigal dinner scripts have been performed in 38 states, Canada, and Guatemala. (Those 12 holdouts are really bugging us.)
Jane earned her B.A. from the University of Evansville in Indiana and her M.A. from Penn State University. Besides READ MORE...
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Jill Elaine Hughes
www.jillelainehughes.com
JILL ELAINE HUGHES’ plays have received productions and staged readings in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Atlanta, Boston, Phoenix, Ohio, Toronto, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Her short plays are particularly popular, receiving productions at professional theatres nationwide as well as numerous colleges and universities. Ms. Hughes also founded the nationally renowned Stockyards Theatre Project, Chicago’s only theatre company dedicated exclusively to women’s theatre and performance art in 1999, and served as its artistic director/producer for five years. She served three y READ MORE...
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John Patrick Bray
John Patrick Bray earned his Ph.D. in Theatre Studies at Louisiana State University, having earned an MFA in Playwriting from The New School for Drama (during its Actor Studio Drama School days). He has written plays under grants from the NEA, the Acadiana Center for the Arts, Acadiana C.A.R.E.S. (an HIV/AIDS outreach organization); and has earned commissions from the re:Directions Theatre Co. (NYC/OOB), Rachel Klein Productions (NYC/OOB), the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana (LA), The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (LA), The Dancing Project (LA), and the Brooke Point Players (VA). READ MORE...
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Jonathan Graham
Jonathan Graham is the author of 25 produced plays. His work has been seen at American Globe Theatre (NYC), Bloomington Playwrights Project (Bloomington, Ind.), Love Creek Productions (NYC), New Plays For Dog Days (Norfolk, Va.), Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, Ind.), The Writer’s Center (Bethesda, Md.) and at other theatres in the U.S., England and Canada. His plays have been developed through readings at such venues as Chicago Dramatists Workshop (Chicago, Ill.), Great Plains Theatre Conference (Omaha, Neb.), Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke, Va.), Theatre J (Washington, D.C.) and Utah Shakesp READ MORE...
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Joseph Sorrentino
www.sorrentinophotography.com
Joseph Sorrentino is an accomplished playwright and photographer. His one-man play, “Louis’ Lottery” was published by ScriptWorks and was selected by the Philadelphia Inquirer as one of the ten best productions in 1994, when it premiered at The Independent Eye in Philadelphia. Eight of his ten-minute plays, called “The Frankenharry Plays”, have been published and have received numerous productions in the US, Canada and England. His articles, individual photographs and photoessays have appeared in a number of newspapers and magazines. Sorrentino was awarded a Pennsylvania Council on The Ar READ MORE...
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Julie Cullings
Julie Cullings has been writing plays for over five years. Her first completed work, a full-length comedy entitled Shared Assets, is the winner of the 2008 York Little Theatre PA Original Playwright Contest. As such, Shared Assets will premiere at YLT in York, Pennsylvania on June 18-27, 2010.
She also recently completed two, ten-minute plays. The first, a drama entitled Advert Here, had a table reading at Eastern Illinois University in January 2010. Play Nice is a new ten-minute comedy that examines the competition and comparisons often experienced in motherhood.
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Karen Blomain & Michael Downend
http://www.karenblomain.com/
HUSBAND AND WIFE CREATIVE TEAM
The highly creative Karen Blomain and Michael Downend let their feet touch the ground on occasion and some of the time it is here in Northeastern Pennsylvania that their soles hit the dirt.The couple is enjoying the success of a few collaborations over the past couple of years. Blomain's first novel "A Trick of Light" was recently purchased by Barbra Streisand's production company, Barwood Studios. The studios also requested a screenplay version of Blomain's earlier story, "An American Wife." Additionally, "An American Wife" is set to be staged at The Northe READ MORE...
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Lynn Snyder
Lynn Snyder's plays have been produced in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Roanoke, Lansing and abroad, in Toronto, Edinburgh and Bologna. She has received playwriting fellowships and grants from the Playwrights Center of Minneapolis, the University of Massachusetts, Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation. Formerly a journalist, Lynn was a newspaper reporter in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles and London and a publicity and speech writer in Los Angeles for candidates in state and local political races. Lynn holds a bachelor's degree in political scienc READ MORE...
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Marjorie Bicknell
Marjorie Bicknell is a founding member of The Playwrights Alliance of Pennsylvania and the author of a number of full-length plays including, "The Family Room," "Joint Custody," and "The Boys Club." She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Speech from Northwestern University and also works as an actor and director.
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Michelle Lema and Melissa Scher
Michelle, based in Los Angeles and a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theatre, joined The Open Fist Theatre Company in Hollywood where she is currently a member and Fundraising Director. With the Open Fist, Michelle has had the opportunity to perform in and assistant direct a wide array of productions including stage managing for Neil LaBute in the Open Fist First Look Festival. She has also studied at Oxford University with the British American Drama Academy. Continuing to work with various theatres in LA, she has performed at Ultimate Improv in Westwood, CA and h READ MORE...
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Paul DiLella
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Paul DiLella
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Peggy Aultman
As an adult, Peggy became involved with community theatre, but when the birth of her daughter sidelined her as an actress, she combined her love of theater with her love of writing and wrote her first play, Best Kept Secrets, which won Congress Jeweler’s Playwright’s Award. Her one-act play, Motherless Child, has been presented in several festivals and was eventually produced. Her most recent play, Trying to Get to You, about two teenage girls coming of age during Beatlemania, will be published by Heartland Plays, Inc. in the summer of 2010. Peggy has also written several children’s plays. READ MORE...
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Peter Nunan & Paul Tumilty
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Peter Nunan
Plays Published by Heartland Plays, Inc.:
If You Go Down to the Bank Today… (with co-author Paul Tumilty)
Since completing a Directors course at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in 2000, Peter has been working as a freelance director around the United Kingdom. Credits include:
A Christmas Carol; Washington Square; The Boundary; Fly Me to The Moon; By Jeeves; Improbable Fiction; An Inspector Calls; Run For Your Wife; Noises Off; Snakes and Ladders; Role Play; Natural Causes and the operas: The Marriage of Figaro and La Pericole.
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R.J. Ryland
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Rebecca Ryland
REBECCA RYLAND has had her published plays produced in theatres throughout the U.S. for the past decade. Ms. Ryland, who holds an MFA in Acting/Directing, began writing as a child, completing her first novel at age nine. She has been mentored in her work by the legendary Zoe Caldwell and the late Horton Foote who once likened her work to Strindberg. Ms. Ryland moved from New York City to rural Kentucky where she founded a non-profit arts organization that specializes in theatre arts training for youth. The founder of Heartland Plays, Inc., Ms. Ryland has always believed that many outstand READ MORE...
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Robert Kinast
During my twenty-five year academic career in the field of practical theology (Ph.D., Emory University), I published ten books and over fifty journal articles. In much of this writing, I developed role play situations and verbatim dialogue to communicate more general principles and themes.
When I semi-retired in 2002, I began indulging my lifelong love of theater by writing stage plays, using the experience I gained in my professional work. Since that time, I have completed twenty three one-act plays, twelve of which have been produced as part of short play festivals. Two others hav READ MORE...
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Robert Lehan
Bob Lehan’s very first script, THE PROCEDURE, was produced on Cape Cod in 1962, at the now vanished Provincetown Playhouse. He holds both a BFA and MFA in Directing from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts and is a long-time member of DGA, the playwrights’ guild. He has retired after thirty-two years of college theater teaching and now spends more time writing new plays and judging contest plays. Aside from ASHES and STONESKIPPERS the two works published by Heartland as BEACH PLAY, Bob has another five plays with Pioneer Drama Service. Look for them at Pioneerdrama.com/Playwrights.
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Sean David Bennett
SEAN DAVID BENNETT is an Edward F. Albee Playwriting Fellow. In 2009, he was awarded a scholarship to the Charles University Writers Program, in Prague, Czech Republic, where he will return this summer. He has previously been a member of the Montana Artists Refuge and three Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensives. He studied playwriting with Pulitzer Prize-winner Marsha Norman, Lee Blessing, Arthur Kopit, and Ken Ludwig, among others. His plays have been staged in the United States, Europe and Australia. Last fall Syracuse University Press published his monologue, "Eleanor" in The Actors Aud READ MORE...
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Verna Safran
VERNA SAFRAN, of Sarasota, Florida is the author of three successfully produced musical shows for children; The Legend of Paul Bunyan, Hiawatha and The Prince and the Pauper, which was recently optioned by Music Theatre International for distribution worldwide. Ms. Safran’s A Wedding at the Brothers and Sisters Coffeehouse won the 2007 Best Play of the Year award at Players Theatre of Sarasota. In addition, Ms. Safran, who holds an MFA degree in Dramatic Literature from Columbia University and is a member of the Dramatists Guild, has had two one-acts published; Musical Chairs in Mayorga’s Bes READ MORE...
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