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| | Richard
Bailey received a Bachelor of Science degree in Film from the University of Texas
at Austin. He worked as a writer, director, and producer of independent films.
Two of his films were featured in film festivals and were finalists at the SXSW
Film Festival, New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, and
the Social Outcast Film & Video Festival. His work has been featured in the
"Best of Dallas" issue of The Dallas Observer, and he placed as a finalist
in screenwriting at the WorldFest Charleston International Film Festival and Lone
Star Screenplay Awards. After turning his focus to short fiction, he was nominated
for a Pushcart Prize in 1998 for a story published in Thema. His work has appeared
or is forthcoming in Amoskeag, Concho River Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review,
The Madison Review, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, Pennsylvania English,
Porcupine, Quercus Review, Red Wheelbarrow, River Oak Review, Sulphur River Literary
Review, Vanitas, and Whiskey Island Magazine. | | Matthew
Edwards | | |
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is a playwright living
in Richardson, Texas. Having migrated from Oklahoma in 1983, he's made Texas his
new home, attending the University of Texas at Dallas for his Bachelors of Arts
& Humanities. An active member of the North Texas theatre community, his produced
works include Four Chairs, Something for Everyone,
Still on Foot, Compilation, The Cask of Amontillado(Adapted),
Picky, and The Smiling Room (with Jen Massey). He's
had the pleasure of working with Audacity Productions and Ground Zero Theatre
and serves with great pride as a member of DFW Playwrights and on the board of
Rover Dramawerks.
| | Lon
Rogers |
Before writing,
came reading, and as the child of an English teacher, I found books ever at my
elbow. By the time I entered high school, I had been bitten by the writing bug,
and I toyed with it, hit or miss, through school and later as I pursued the practice
of medicine. Recently,
I completed a novel, which is now in the hands of an agent, and I find that my
interest has turned to the art and craft of the stage play. I like dialogue, I
like reading it, I like writing it, and I like hearing it spoken on the stage.
I enjoy the intimacy of live productions, each of which is totally unique and
can never be repeated exactly the same again. So, like the boy hooked on books,
I find myself as a man, hooked on stage plays. It's an addiction, always demanding,
sometimes cruel, but I can't get enough,and I can't give it up.
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received
her Bachelor of Science in Education in Speech Communications/Theatre from Oklahoma
Christian University, where she was named Thalian of the Year in 1986. She
has been involved in theatre for over twenty years. She was a cofounder of Bucket
Productions and is also a cofounder of Rover Dramawerks, currently serving as
President/Artistic Director. Her plays The Three Musketeers, The
Belle of West Texas, The Dancer, Snow White and the
Enchanted Forest, Sometimes Not, Power Makes the
World Go Around, and As the World Cooks have seen productions
in theatres all over the Metroplex. Her children's plays, Chicken Little
in Oz and Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, will be produced
in the summer of 2007 as a part of Plano Parks and Recreation's Act
Up! Drama Camps.
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into theater via writing, namely of music. He has maintained the dissemblance
to the extent of founding two theater companies, Bucket Productions and Rover
Dramawerks and serving as board member for N.M Productions (Dallas) and Stage
Right (Salt Lake City, yes, Utah). His credits include direction of the region
premiere of Anne McGravie's Wrens and the world premiere of her
short, Bags (with occasional Christmas cards from the author even recently),
a B.S. in Mathematics, an Aegis Award for the soundtrack of Matt Kaufman's short
film Willoughby, the Hughes Electronics Patent Award for his work
in computer graphics, and the ability to keep a straight face while telling his
five year old son Stephen, "Because I said so, that's why."
| Christopher
Soden
| Christopher
Stephen Soden is a native Texan. He is a writer, teacher, critic, lecturer and
performer. He is a founding member of The Dallas Poets Community and for more
than fifteen years served as Director, President, Event Coodinator and Board Member,
helping them to win The Dallas Observer's Best Poetry Reading Award. He currently
serves as President Emeritus. Christopher received his MFA in Writing (Poetry)
from Vermont College in January of 2005. He has taught classes and guest lectured
on the subjects of craft, theory, genre, literature and publication. He has written
poetry, plays, performance pieces, literary, film and theatre critique. His honors
include: Distinguished Poets of Dallas, Poetry Society of America's Poetry in
Motion Series, President and President Emeritus of The Dallas Poets Community.
Finalist with 4Th Unity and LSU Outworks Festival. His work has appeared in :
Sentence, Borderlands, Off the Rocks, The James White Review, The New Writer,
Velvet Mafia, Poetry Super Highway, Gertrude, Touch of Eros, Gents, Bad Boys and
Barbarians, Windy City Times, ArLiJo, Best Texas Writing 2. |
| Mark-Brian
Sonna | was
born in Chicago, raised in rural Mexico, and have lived, performed, written, directed,
produced, and choreographed dozens of shows in the Dallas area since 1980. He
founded MBS Productions three years ago with the goal of bringing new plays, new
translations, or new adaptations of classic works to the DFW audiences. Since
the inception of MBS Productions with the launch of the perennial favorite "Theatre
of Death" show, he has presented 4 new adaptations of classic works, 8 new
translations, and 10 world premiers. Included in this list are four of his full
length plays: ...a moment in the life of Willa Dee Arvis, Kiss
the Boys, The Soul Gatherer, and Theatre of Love.
He is currently writing the musical The Lovers, based on the real
story of a young couple in Teruel, Spain, in 1217 that had what is considered
by many the most romantic love story in history. I am completing a transaltion
of Tamayo y Baus' play A New Drama and a translation of Benavente's
comedy, The Lively Corpses. | | | |
Advisory Artists
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and MFA in Directing from the University of Oklahoma with a concnetration in New
Play Development. She has directed every type of theater from Community to Equity
theater over the past 15 years of directing. She was nominated for Best Director
in Chicago for the Joseph Jefferson Award for her direction of Eye of God.
She has taught theatre in 6 states including the programs at Rutgers University,
University of the Arts and DePaul University. Currently she is on faculty for
Collin County Community College theater department. | |
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Sasha divides most
of her time between acting and directing but can also be seen doing makeup, costumes,
and stage combat. She has been doing theatre for over 15 years while also teaching
theatre in Middle School and High School. She recently returned from NYC after
performing The Long March in conjunction with the Gaiety School of Acting. She
is currently working on Misty Dawn, a TV series based on Dark
Shadows. Check it out at www.mistydawntexas.com
Her greatest pleasure is spending most of her time with her mighty family, Bill,
Zoé and baby Sage. Sasha received her BFA from OU and her Masters from
TWU both in drama. | | Michael
McNiel | |
| Dawn
Wittke King |
Dawn recently relocated
to Texas from the snowy plains of Iowa. She earned her BA in Theatre (emphasis
design) from Northwestern College, and has experience in almost every aspect of
the theatre; but prefers to concentrate on directing and design. While in college,
Dawn earned the Kennedy Center Barbizon Award a national recognition in lighting
design. In Iowa she served a two-year term on the board of an independent theatre
as technical coordinator. Her most recent directing project was "Gross Indecency:
The Three Trial of Oscar Wilde," by Moises Kauffman. Dawn has had three of
her original one-acts produced on stage. She would like to thank "Write Around
Here," for the opportunity to work with them. | | | |
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