playwrights database

Genbrugge, Geert (Belgium) [Playwright, Director, Actor]

Editors — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:03:27 +0000

Geert Genbrugge followed acting courses at the Antwerp Conservatoire. Later on he studied Effective Communication and finally he graduated at the Narafi Filmschool in Brussels.

He worked 5 years for a Flemish commercial television station. Because of his experience, he was asked to teach Directing the Actor, Effective Communication, Music in Film, Documentary and Filmanalysis at the Narafi Filmschool.

Meanwhile he wrote five monologues. First “The Queen of Sheba”, an adaptation of the novella by Knut Hamsun and “Champoleon” inspired by Champollion, the decoder of the hiëroglyphs, which he played himself. “Gerolimenos” , his third monologue, is about a designer of gardenlabyrinths, which was recently staged by the Reibekuchen Theater in Duisburg.

In “Monturiol” he dives to the bottom of the sea with the inventor of the submarine. And “The Rabbit Nation” tells the story of the Port of Antwerp through the character of a tailor. It was a project in coöperation with the MAS, the museum of contemporary art.

During a writing course in HETPALEIS guided by Suzanne Van Lohuizen, he wrote “Suitcases on the Road”, a playwright for children, which was staged for the first time in 2002. Untill now, it has been played by 9 theatre companies in Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany. In 2010 it won the first prize at the Theatre Festival “Westwind” in Dortmund, a member of the ASSETEJ and it was selected the year after at the HotInk at the Lark Reading Festival in New York.

He also wrote “The Camera Assistent” and “The Three Fairies”.
His plays are known for its humor and vivid dialogues.

He has written 2 children books, “Little Tsjok” and “Cute Little Stuffed Buffalo”.

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Noble, Ryan (USA)

Editors — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 23:32:19 +0000

Ryan came to theater from the film and television world where he wrote and directed several documentary films, dozens of television commercials and two narrative feature films. His work has been screened at numerous film festivals in the United States, on international television and his first feature film, "Border Wars" is in international distribution through York Entertainment.

During his graduate work at Arizona State in Theatre (Dramatic Writing), he wrote plays for diverse audiences including adult audiences, young audiences and bilingual (English/Spanish) audiences. Having lived and worked in Latin America, he is particularly interested in creative exchange amongst cultures and translation issues of creative work between English and Spanish, including the Argentine Castellano

Wentworth, Michael (South Africa)

Editors — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:20:59 +0000

Michael Wentworth is a writer, playwright, poet, director, producer and a cultural activist. He has written and directed numerous plays and has published a sold-out collection of poetry entitled A Love Letter for the Epoch.

Michael started writing professionally for the stage in 1996 when he was commissioned to write a children's play for the Cultural Calabash Arts Festival. Since then he has written and directed original stories as well as various adaptations and tributes for both young and adult audiences.

His theatre credits include Baki - an original adaptation of Can Themba's short story The Suit; the musical Torong - A Place To Dream which he also composed; Just Another Friday Night; The Exodus Motel; Inside the Rainbow; The Thirteenth Morning; Live rAge; Progres'; Waiting; and Die Droomdief which was developed and performed with children from the Lettie De Klerk Primary School Arts Project of which Michael is also the co-ordinating facilitator.

Michael is currently busy with a second draft of his debut novel entitled A Tale of Extra Ordinary Madness and as the originator and co-ordinating facilitator for the Lettie De Klerk Primary School Arts Project in Pienaarsig, Nieu-Bethesda.

Daniel, Sonia (Argentina)

Editors — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:26:26 +0000

Se formó teatralmente en el Seminario de Teatro Jolie Libois (Complementación Educativa) Tomó cursos particulares con maestros de teatro como Miguel Iriarte, Paco Giménez, Jorge Pinus, Victor Moll, Laura Ortiz, Carlos Gandolfo. Son sus referentes en dramaturgia sus maestros Patricia Suarez, Alejandro Finzi, Luis Cano Ha sido dirigida como actriz por: Chete Cavagliatto, Elisenda Seras, Jorge Pinus, Mildred Yedro, Leo Rey, Jorge Aran entre otros.

Fundo junto a Leo Rey en 1995 uno de los proyectos referentes del teatro independiente del país: el Centro Cultural Independiente Maria Castaña y la Agrupación Teatral del mismo nombre. Su labor como docente de teatro para niños y adolescentes desde 1990 ha sido semillero de actores del teatro de Córdoba.

Se ha desempeñado como Capacitadora Docente, Jurado en Ligas Estudiantiles, Representante de Salas en el Consejo Provincial del Instituto Nacional del Teatro.

Ha recibido múltiples premios como actriz, docente,dramaturga y gestora cultural

Como dramaturga ha sido representada en numerosas oportunidades, se destacan sus textos “Qual piuma al vento” , “Expediente Fidelio, una historia clínica” (en co autoría con Liliana Sosa), “El gran deporte nacional”, “Herida absurda”,”Mala Muerte”,“El Juego de las Palomas”. Ha sido galardonada con el Primer Premio Dramaturgia Provincial 2005 ,Premio Municipal Dramaturgia Unipersonal 2011. Recibió en 2012 una Mención Especial de Argentores y el Ministerio de Desarrollo Social por su obra breve “Boca de Lobo” en el concurso Aplausos por la inclusion.

Su obra ha sido publicada y traducida en varios idiomas. Sus textos se representan habitualmente tanto en Córdoba su ciudad natal en Argentina como en el resto del territorio nacional y paises como Mexico, Brasil y Venezuela.

Se ha destacado como actriz en muchos proyectos entre ellos: “Desviaciones musicoteatricas”, “El guante blanco”, “El rey se muere”, “Extraño juguete”, “Paseantes, maqueta de una historia contada”, “Creciendo con el cuerpo” y su ultimo unipersonal: “Dicese de la persona cuyo conyuge ha muerto”

Hill, Amanda (USA)

Editors — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:01:44 +0000

Amanda Hill will graduate in May 2013 with her M.F.A. in Theatre for Young Audiences from the University of Central Florida. She is an artist, scholar, and educator who uses theatre and the arts to inspire artistry and creative voice in individuals and diverse populations. Recent accomplishments include articles for Incite/Insight and NEXTBlog, and an upcoming chapter in the book Technology in the Literature Class: Assignments and Materials. She is a 2013 One Theatre World intern with Theater for Young Audiences/USA and has previously presented at the Florida Theatre Conference, Georgia Theatre Conference and the University of Southern Florida and was a winner of the 2012 Jim Rye Fellowship from IPAY. She holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance from Susquehanna University

Jenkins, Jeff (USA)

Editors — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:21:53 +0000

Jeff Jenkins is a Chicago Playwright and member of TYA/USA and American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE). He is also a Network Playwright with Chicago Dramatists and an Associate Member of the Dramatist Guild.

His plays include Montenegro (Cold Basement Dramatics Secret Stash-2), The Purple Heart (Finalist- New Plays for Young Audiences, Adventure Stage Chicago), Monarch Ashes (AATE-Digital Play Slam). He is a two-time semi-finalist with the Bonderman Playwrighting for Youth National Competition – Write Now (2009, 2011) and a semi-finalist for the Ronald M. Ruble New Play Festival (2012) and. He was also nominated for the Dramatists Guild Writers Intensive-Chicago (June 2011).

Atkins, Rachel (USA)

Editors — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:38:04 +0000

Rachel Atkins is a Seattle-based playwright and teaching artist. She is the scriptwriter for Living Voices, the educational theatre company with whom she has eleven different multi-media shows in ongoing national tours. She's also a regular adapter for Seattle's Book-It Repertory Theatre, with numerous mainstage, education and touring productions. In addition, her plays have been seen locally at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, The Empty Space, Annex Theatre, Live Girls! and 14/48: The World's Quickest Theatre Festival, and regionally at American Repertory Theater in Massachusetts and the Virginia Theatre in Illinois. Previously, she was the Scriptwriter/Dramaturge and Director of Education for Ardeo Theatre Project in St. Julien l'Ars, France. Rachel has nearly 20 years of writing, teaching and directing experience in Seattle, New York and France.

She graduated from Dartmouth College and holds her Masters in Educational Theatre from New York University. Rachel was honored to be a 2010 Theatre Puget Sound Gregory Awards nominee for Outstanding Playwright.

Libman, Nava (Israel)

Editors — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 03:19:06 +0000

Nava is a playwright and literary editor, and was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1975. In 1996, she was awarded a scholarship for the publishing of a book of her own written poems from the Victor Hugo Foundation. Her debut play Poetry Night was staged in Hasimta Theater in Tel Aviv in 2004.

Her most recent play Who Would Survive? revolves around attitudes towards the Holocaust in contemporary Israel, has been translated to English and was accepted into the Stage 1 Festival in Jerusalem.

Her children's play Tail Tales, originally written in Hebrew, has been translated into English and is currently looking for a home.

Nygren, Anna (Sweden)

Editors — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:57:00 +0000

Anna Nygren, born in Sweden 1990, writes plays, poetry, film and fiction. She graduated from the Biskops-Arnö Dramatic Writing Program in 2012 and the same year she finished her Bachelor Degree in literature at Linköping University. Anna has written plays for several free groups in Sweden, and after attending the Assitej exchange program Inspiring a Generation, in Cape Town, South Africa, she has also co-written two plays for Cape Town based performing group The Playgroup. Anna currently lives in Stockholm, Sweden, working on her MA thesis on Virginia Woolf and writing parallel on two plays. When not writing Anna does illustrations or yoga, or pets her cats. One of her more different passions is crocheting, which she does whenever she can.

Wang, Lucy (USA)

Editors — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:29:49 +0000

Lucy Wang is an award-winning, published and produced writer, but she began her illustrious career as a Wall Street bond trader and served as Deputy Chief of Staff during Mayor Dinkins’ Administration. Her awards include the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, Best New Political Social Play from the Katherine and Lee Chilcote Foundation, Berrilla Kerr Foundation, James Thurber Fellowship, CAPE’s New Writers TV Award, NATPE Diversity Fellow, and artistic residencies at Annenberg Community Beach House, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and the Tin Shop.

Wang's plays have been performed all over, and many are available at Original Works Publishing, JAC Publishing and Amazon.

Her first youth play TEEN MOGUL is about a young girl who saves her family after her mother's abandonment, and inspired by real life. Her youth monologues PRETTY FOR AN ASIAN GIRL and MY SUPERPOWER will be published by Applause Books, and Meriwether Publishing 2013. Wang has also written a YA novel, two short films, sold a pilot to Disney, taught at many fine universities, and performed standup comedy. She is currently a member of Katselas Playlabs and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.

https://www.amazon.com/author/lucywang