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Playwriting Experience
- "Ragtown"- Full-Length Drama
- Nevada Conservatory Theatre- April 2006. Production
- Irish Repertory Theatre- Off Broadway- Feb. 2006. Equity Staged Reading
- Nominated for PONY Fellowship, the LARK- 2007.
- Recipient of Las Vegas Centennial Grant
- "The Methuselah Tree"- Full-Length Serio-Comedy
- Cockroach Theatre- September 2007. Production
- Minneapolis Fringe Festival- August 2007. Production
- Finalist for Jerome Fellowship, Minneapolis Playwrights Center. 2006.
- Nevada Conservatory Theatre- 2005. Production
- Regional Individual Achievement Award, KC/ACTF 2005
- "The Fisherman"- Drama (Short Play made in to Full-Length
- Optioned for development, Warner Brothers Inc.
- Winner, KC-ACTF Region Eight 10-Minute Play Festival
- National Finalist, KC/ACTF
- Finalist- PlayLabs at The Playwrights Center
- Semi-Finalist- O?Neill Playwrights Conference
- UNLV Playwrights Theatre, Production
- ATHE- Selected for New Play Reading Series
- "Hellfire"- Full-Length Thriller
- The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez AK. Reading- 2007
- "Giants"- Full-Length Drama
- Washington Shakespeare Company- Equity Staged Reading. 2001
- "The Sweet Stuff"- Full-Length Thriller (currently being adapted for film)
- Finalist for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, 2005
- National Individual Achievement Award- KC/ACTF- 2005
- UNLV Playwrights Theatre. Production- 2005
- "Possibilities"- Full-Length Drama
- Southwest State University, Production- 2002
- Higher Ground Theatre Company, Reading- 2001
- "The Rhythm of Blood"- One-Act, Drama
- Finalist for Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
- Production, UNLV Playwrights Theatre- 2004
- Publication Award- KC/ACTF Best Student Short Plays of 2004
- ATHE New Play Reading Series, 2005
- "Find Mucking"- Short Play, Comedy
- Production- Iron Ring Theatre Company- Modesto, CA- 2006
- Production- UNLV Playwrights Theatre
- Current Finalist, TitleWAVE Theatre 10-Minute Festival, Cleveland OH- 2007
- "The 38th Mississippi"- Short Play, Comedy
- Production- Iron Ring Theatre- Modesto, CA- 2006
- Production- Dakota Prairie Playhouse- Madison, SD- 2006
- Production- UNLV Senior Playwrights Theatre- 2006
- "The Wolf Who Cried Boy"-Full-Length- Children's Play
- Commissioned, Plum Creek Library System, MN. Six Week Tour. 2002
- Production, Nellis Airforce Base Children's Theatre.
- "R&J on the Rocks"- Short Play- Comedy
- Poor Playwrights Theatre, Production. 2003.
- "The Great Diversion"- Short Play- Thriller
- Dakota Prairie Playhouse, Production. 2006.
- "My Mother Greg"- Short Play- Drama
- Dakota Prairie Playhouse, Production. 2006.
- "Sweating Blood"- Solo-Show
- Southwest State University, Production. 2001.
- ACTF, Region 5- Invited Production. 2002.
- "God is an American"- Solo Show
- UNLV Playwrights Theatre. Production. 2006.
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Education
- M.F.A.- Theatre Arts, Playwriting. University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- UNLV Graduate Student of the Year Award-
- B.A.- Theatre Arts, Directing and Acting. Southwest State University.
- Four Year Recipient of Theatre Scholarship, Gala Ball Scholarship
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Related Experience
- *Twin Cities Regional Representative for The Dramatists Guild (current).
- *Columnist for The Dramatist Magazine (current).
- *Adjunct Professor of Theatre (2006, 2007, 2008), Dakota State University, Ridgewater College, Southwest Minnesota State University.
- *Director- Over a dozen productions including Twelfth Night and Heathen Valley.
- *Actor- Over twenty-five roles including; The Narrator in Richard Foreman?s Permanent Brain Damage, John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, and more.
- *Technical Director, Set Design, Lighting Design- Over twenty productions including; Little Shop of Horrors, American Buffalo, and Side by Side by Sondheim.
- *Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive- 2001, 2003. Studied under Arthur Kopit, David Ives, Lee Blessing, Melanie Marnich, Naomi Iizuka, Ari Roth, Gary Garrison, and more.
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National Memberships
- *The Dramatists Guild
- *The Playwrights Center
- *Cockroach Theatre
- *Association for Theatre in Higher Education
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