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Jeannene Bragg is an experimental theatre artist whose work includes playwriting, collaborative theatre and performance art. She received a 2000 Colorado Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship; her plays have been featured in The Bug Theatre Playwrights Showcase, Colorado Quickies, the Colorado Women's Playwrights Festival, HAGACTS and the International One Page Play Competition. She is a former member of The LIDA Project Experimental Theatre Company and the International Center for Women Playwrights. Available Plays


Tami Canaday's plays have been produced in both the US and Japan. Scenes and monologues from her plays have been published by Meriwether and Smith & Kraus. Her plays are published by One Act Play Depot in Saskatchewan, Canada. She has been a finalist with The Sonoma County Repertory Theatre, New Century Writers, and The Colorado Women Playwrights Festival, among others. The collaborative theatre piece Bingo Boyz: Columbine, in which Ms. Canaday served as Dramaturge, received an Ovation Award for best new work in 2004 from The Denver Post. Available Plays

 

WIlliam Missouri DownsWilliam Missouri Downs holds an M.F.A. in acting from the University of Illinois and an M.F.A. in screenwriting from U.C.L.A. He was trained in playwriting by Lanford Wilson and Milan Stitt at the Circle Rep Theatre in New York and has authored over a dozen plays. His plays include: Innocent Thoughts the winner of the National Playwrights Award, Jewish Sports Heroes and Texas Intellectuals which took first place at the Mill Mountain Theatre's Festival Of New Plays and Kabuki Medea which won the Bay Area Critics Award for best production in San Francisco and the Jefferson Award for best production in Chicago. His latest play Seagulls In A Cherry Tree is the winner of the Larry Corse Prize for playwriting and was produced at the 2006 Orlando Shakespeare Festival's PlayFest. Bill has had nearly 100 productions from New York to Singapore and from Israel to South Africa, including LORT theatres like the Kennedy Center and the Berkeley Rep. He is a full voting member of both the Dramatists Guild (DGA) and the Writers Guild Of America (WGA).

As a director/dramaturg he has staged many plays including the original productions of Rainy Day People - 2002, Missionary Position - 2003, and the rock musical Good Morning Athens - 2004 that were all selected as region VII finalists in the American College Theatre Festival. Good Morning Athens (book, music and lyrics by Sean Keogh) was also produced at the Kennedy Center during the National American College Theatre Festival and won numerous ACTF awards including best comedy, musical and play.

Bill is co-author of the books Screenplay: Writing The Picture and Naked Playwriting: The Art, The Craft and The Life Laid Bare published by Silman/James - you can find them at your local Barnes & Noble or on Amazon.com. He also authored Playwriting: From Formula To Form published by Harcourt. His latest books are Experiencing The Art Of Theatre & The Art Of Theatre - Then and Now published by Wadsworth.

In Hollywood, Bill wrote for such NBC sitcoms as My Two Dads (which starred Paul Reiser), Amen (Sherman Hemsley) and Fresh Prince Of Bel Air (Will Smith). He also won the Jack Nicholson Award for screenwriting and sold the movie Executive Privilege to Tri-star. Web Site Available Plays


Olivia Laney Edwards enjoys writing very visual experimental plays. She is a past associate of the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute and a member of the Denver Center Theatre Company's Playwrights Unit, 2001-02. Her plays have been produced in Denver, Boulder, and Estes Park, Colorado and Dallas, Texas.
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Patrick Gabridge is the author of numerous produced plays, including Pieces of Whitey, Reading the Mind of God, Blinders, and Hearing Voices. His plays are published by Brooklyn Publishers, Playscripts, and Smith & Kraus. His first novel, Tornado Siren, is published by Behler Publications. In 1993, Patrick co-founded Chameleon Stage and served as its first producing director until 1997. He also founded Market InSight for Playwrights, the Internet bi-annual Playwright Submission Binge, and the Rhombus Playwrights group in Boston. When he lived in Colorado, he was the recipient of several grants and awards from the Colorado Council on the Arts. He lives with his wife and two kids in Brookline, Massachusetts. Patrick's Website Available Plays. Patrick's newest novel is Tornado Siren.


Judy GeBauer's plays have been produced at the Long Wharf Theatre, Irish Arts Center, Chocolate Bayou Theatre, and Changing Scene, among others. Four of her scripts have been selected for development at the O'Neill. She is a former Rocky Mountain Women's Institute associate, a recipient of the Colorado Innovation Award, the HBO Writing Award, and grants from the Steinberg Charitable Trust and the W. Alton Jones Foundation. She was a member of the DCTC Playwrights Unit, where she teaches playwriting and is a reader for the literary department. She is published by Heinemann Books, Broadway Play Publishing, and Playscripts, Inc. Available Plays


Joan Golden did her graduate work in Theatre and Journalism at the University of Colorado. Her play, The Half World, was a finalist in the Lake County (CA) Repertory Theatre competition in 2004, and Equinox was produced in Denver and showcased at the 2002 Rocky Mountain Theatre Association Theatrefest. Three other plays, Cooking With Mary Lou Cling, Percussion Discussion and The White Room have had productions in Denver. She also writes for television and magazines. Available Plays


Ellen K. Graham is a Denver native and a graduate of the University of Chicago. A Chameleon Stage member playwright since 1997, Ellen has worked with many local theatres, including Paragon, Industrial Arts, the Changing Scene, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Denver Center Theatre Company, where she was a member of the Playwrights Unit from 2001-2003. She is the co-founder of and head screenwriter for Shocking Beyond Belief! Films, an independent film production company. Available Plays


Steve Hunter's seven full-length and more than twenty short plays have been seen in many Denver theatres (and other venues including parking lots!). They have received awards in the New Rocky Mountain Voices competition, the Rocky Mountain Theatre Association and the Paragon Theatre new play competition. He has also produced, directed, designed sets and built props. His goal in playwriting is to portray fully dimensional characters in situations which challenge audiences to confront their comfortable assumptions about life. Available Plays


Leroy Leonard in 1987 co-founded Merry-Andrew Afoot, a children's theater company through which he teaches, writes and performs in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. His adult plays have appeared on stages throughout Colorado. His fiction has been published in numerous magazines and online publications. Available Plays


Tracy Shaffer Witherspoon has made her living as an actress, director, playwright, and teacher for over twenty years. For the past five seasons she has been involved with The Denver Center Theatre Company as a member of its Acting Company and was in the 2001 Playwright's Unit. Denver's Paragon Theatre Company produced the premiere of her play, Saints & Hysterics, (W)hole was selected as Curious Theatre's entry in the National Showcase of New Plays 2004 in Chicago and What We Don't Know was the winner of the 2005 New Rocky Mountain Voices One-Act Competition. Her work has been read in Denver Center's Theatrefest 2002, at The Missoula Writer's Colony and in Curious Theatre Company's 2003-2004 New Play Development Series. Available Plays

 
     

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