PUBLICATION:
PALAK PANEER
Monologue will be published by Smith & Kraus’ Best Men’s Stage Monologues 2023
CLARE
Monologue published by Smith & Kraus’ Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022
PURDAH
Monologue published by Smith & Kraus’ Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2021
VULCANIC SURRENDER
Monologue published with Applause Books in the She Persisted Anthology, 2021
ON THE ROAD TO HOLENESS
Monologue published with Applause Books in the She Persisted Anthology, 2021
PRODUCTIONS:
A SIRI-OUS SITUATION
Radio Theatre Project, live reading & Podcast Soundcloud, 2023
GROWL
The Valdez Theatre Conference, staged reading 2021
Theatre Odyssey’s One Act Festival, Sarasota, FL 2019. Awarded Runner-up for Best Play
Nevertheless, She Persisted at The Shattered Glass Project, Concert Reading, Seattle. 2019
The Downtown Urban Arts Festival at The Wild Project. NYC, 2019
Warner International Playwrights Festival, 2020. Semi-finalist
The Phoenix Theatre Festival of Short Plays, 2018. Semi-finalist
I FEEL GOOD!
2020 Downtown Urban Arts Festival Finalist at The Signature Theatre (*cancelled due to Covid-19)
Women Leading New Play Series at Itinerant Theatre Louisiana, Staged Reading, June 2019
The Lock Festival at Polaris North, Studio Production (by invitation only), Sept. 2018
FICTOPHILIA
(online reading) Plays and Pizza, July 2022
LOVE GONE VIRAL
Online reading, The Tiny Theatre, 2022
Online reading, Polaris North, 2021
SOREL
YouTube, Online Video, 2021
THE SHOWER
Cosmic Orchid’s Behind Closed Doors Program, Online Reading, 2020
MY INFINITY MASK
Youtube, Online Video, 2020
SLICING AN ONION
International Human Rights Art Festival at The Wild Project. Dec. 2019
Code Red Playwrights #Faith at St. John’s Lutheran Church, NYC. Oct. 2019, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Eugene, Oregon. April 2019, Phoenix Theatre, Minneapolis, MN. March 2019, and Mystic Vision Players Theatre Company, Linden, NJ. 2020 (*postponed).
CLARE
The Depot, CT, Zoom Reading. 2021
Staged Reading, Polaris North, 2020 (by invitation only)
Phoebus Fire (UK) Long listed for Performance Project, 2019
HELLO OCEAN
Itinerant Theatre Louisana’s Women Leading: New Play Series, Staged Reading. June 2019
Inge Theater Festival New Play Lab, Reading. 2018
The Lock Festival at Polaris North, Studio Production. 2017
OPEN PALMS
Finalist, TruSpeak 2023
FLUID
Itinerant Theatre Louisiana’s The Play’s the Thing: Life Inspired Series, Reading. 2020 (*postponed)
ZOOM CASTE
Alleyway Theatre’s Mazumdar Digital New Play Competition 2020, Semi-finalist
Fable Workshop Quaranscenes, Online Reading. UK, 2021. Finalist
IN ALABAMA
Workshop Production, Polaris North 2023
Theater for the New City’s Dream Up Festival, Sept. 2017
The Voire Dire Project at CAP21 and Westbeth Theatre. NYC, 2016
THE UNDERCURRENT
produced at UpStage Napa Valley’s PlayFest 2022.
Polaris North, Studio Production (by invitation only). July 2017
PALAK PANEER
Workshop production, Polaris North, 2022
The New Yorker’s One Act Festival, 2018
The Big Apple Theater Festival at The Producers Club Theater, 2017
THE QUIET CAR
Polaris North, Studio Production (by invitation only). March 2017
RIDE TO THE BRIDGE
Summer Play Fest at Jefferson Market Library, Reading. 2018
MOUNTAIN DEW
The Winter 2017 Equity Library Theater Play Festival at the NYPL 53rd Street Branch Theater, Reading. Jan. 2017
HERSTORY NOPlays Festival of 365 Women a Year Project at The Silk Road Gallery, Reading. New Haven, CT. April 2016
Polaris North, Workshop Production (by invitation only), NY. Sept. 2015
A SIRI-OUS SITUATION
Radio Theatre Project, St. Petersburg, Florida 2023 , reading and podcast Soundcloud
The 9th Annual InspiraTO Festival, Toronto, Canada. Finalist. May-June 2014
ON THE TURNPIKE
Plays and Prestidigitation 5 at Polaris North, short play studio performance (by invitation only), 2014
HURRICANE SANDY (poem)
Finale of NY LADIES, WOMEN WHO WRITE WITH WIT at The Hudson Guild, 2013
TIT FOR TSA-T
Plays and Prestidigitation 3 at Polaris North, short play studio performance (by invitation only), 2013
One Acts and Snacks at Casa Beverly, Feb. 2017
Lower East Side Festival 2011
DUST
One-act play 2008, revised 2011-2014
Staged Reading at Polaris North, 2015 and 2012
JUST FOR TODAY
One-act play, 2021
Staged Reading at Polaris North 2012
INDIRA
Full-length play, 2014
DELHI DUO
Theater for the New City, Workshop Production. March 1995
VULCANIC SURRENDER
Theater for the New City, Workshop Production. March 1995
Polaris North, Staged Reading. 2015
ON THE ROAD TO HOLENESS
Theater for the New City, Workshop Production. May 1990
The Burns Mantle Theater Yearbook of 1989-1990: 10 Best Plays of the Season
THE ROSY CAVE
Theater for the New City, Workshop Production. February 1988
THE CLEARING
The Lower East Festival, Staged Reading. May 2013
THE TRANSFER STUDENT
The Lower East Side Festival, Staged Reading. May 2012
HIGH COLONIC MOUNTAIN
Lower East Side Festival, Staged Reading. May 2010
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER MEDICAL MORONIC PROGRAM
Lower East Side Festival, Staged Reading. May 2007
Author of numerous comedy sketches performed by Outta Control & Out the Window at The Westbank Café, Trocadero, Steve Mcgraws, the Duplex, Rose’s Turn,(1991-2000) THE LEGACY, Sande Shurin Studios, 2002
DIRECTING:
PALAK PANEER
Polaris North, Workshop Production 2022
RITA
Zoom Reading, Polaris North 2022
LONELY
Zoom reading, Polaris North 2022
VITKA
Zoom reading, P.A.G.E.S. 2022
MENAPACE
Zoom reading, Polaris North 2021
LOVE GONE VIRAL
Zoom reading, Polaris North 2021
PURDAH
Polaris North, Reading. 2020
CLARE
Polaris North, Reading. 2020
SLICING AN ONION
International Human Rights Art Festival at The Wild Project. Dec. 2019
FRIGHT OR FLIGHT
The Lock Festival, Workshop Production. Sept. 2019
I FEEL GOOD!
The Lock Festival, Workshop Production. Sept. 2018
THE UNDERCURRENT
Polaris North, Workshop Production. July 2017
THE QUIET CAR
Polaris North, Workshop Production. March 2017
MOUNTAIN DEW
Polaris North, Workshop Production. Sept. 2015
VULCANIC SURRENDER
Polaris North, Reading. 2015
DUST
Polaris North, Reading. 2012 and 2015
JUST FOR TODAY
Polaris North, Reading. 2012
DELHI DUO
Theater for the New City, March 1995
MARGARET SANGER, A WOMAN REBEL by Jessica Feder Birnbaum
Hunter College Playhouse, Reading. July 1990
ON THE ROAL TO HOLENESS
Our Studios, Reading. July 1989
THE ROSY CAVE
Polaris North, Reading. April 1986
Performances of numerous comedy sketches and 10 minute plays
FILM:
ARTEMIS
Author of Screenplay, 1992
EDUCATION:
QUEENS COLLEGE
B.A. in Psychology with a heavy concentration in Theatre/Dance, Cum Laude with Honors in Psychology
HB STUDIOS
Studied Playwriting with Dick Longchamps, 1980
DRAMATISTS GUILD INSTITUTE
Studied Playwriting with Tina Howe, 2018 and 2019
EINHORN SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS
Studied Playwriting, 2013
THE CITYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE
Attended, Miami 2013
SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR MASSAGE
Licensed Massage Therapist
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
DRAMATIST GUILD
Member since 1986, View Membership Profile
POLARIS NORTH
Member since 2012
HONOR ROLL!
Member since 2020
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