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The 15th Annual Conference Program 2007 Featured Artists Carrie Baker is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Alaska Robert Caisley serves as the Founding Producer for the DNA Festival of Frank Collison comes from a theatre background. His father, John, was an actor and Kia Corthron's plays include Moot the Messenger (ATL Humana 2005), Light Danielle Dresden is a playwright, actor and residency artist. Her 25+ plays have been Erma Duricko, a member of the Society of StageDirectors/Choreographers, Laura Gardner was just nominated for BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS by the LA WEEKLY Gary Garrison is the Artistic Director, Producer and a senior member of the faculty Prior to taking his current position as Dean of the College of Fine Arts at Arlene Hutton is the author of The Nibroc Trilogy, a recent critical success Off-Broadway at Daniel Irvine is pleased to return to the Last Frontier Theatre Conference after too many Barclay Kopchak lives just a ferry ride away in Cordova, Alaska where she is Maggie Lally Mark Lutwak was the artistic director for Honolulu Theatre for Youth for six Marshall W. Mason was the Founding Artistic Director of the legendary Circle Repertory Michael Warren Powell is the artistic director of Circle East Theatre Chilean-born author Guillermo Reyes’ plays include Chilean Holiday, Men Charles St. Clair is a graduate of The Fairmount School for Creative Arts and a seasoned Judith Stevens-Ly is the Associate Artistic Director of the First Look Theatre Bryan Willis received his M.F.A. in Playwriting from NYU's Dramatic Writing Y York has written many plays for children and their adults, including Afternoon of the Conference Schedule as of May 30, 2007. Conference Events Friday, June 22 Saturday, June 23 Sunday, June 24 Monday, June 25 Tuesday, June 26 Wednesday, June 27 Thursday, June 28 Saturday, June 30 Sunday, July 1
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Fairbanks and an actor recently based in New York City. She is a member of Actor’s Equity Association and Screen Actors Guild and a founding company member of New York City’s Coyote Rep. New York Theatre credits include: New Age Classics, New Perspectives Theatre Company, NYU Festival of New Works, and Manhattan Theatre Source. Regional Theatre credits include: Utah Shakespearean Festival, Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre, Irvine Barclay Theatre, Summer Repertory Theatre, Washington Shakespeare Company, Potomac Theatre Project, and Washington Stage Guild. TV: Guiding Light, commercial voiceovers. Film: Eat Me. At UAF Carrie teaches a range of performance classes (Fundamentals of Acting, Advanced Acting, Voice and Speech, Movement, Camera Acting, Styles Acting) and recently received a College of Liberal Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. This year she directed Richard Greenberg’s Three Days of Rain, acted in a staged reading at the Women Playwrights International conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, and acted in The Sound of a Voice with Art on the Grid and the Arctic Region Super Computing Center. Carrie holds a B.A. in Theatre and English from Middlebury College and an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of California, Irvine.
Very Very Very Short Plays. He served as Idaho Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director from 2001-04 before becoming the director of the newly formed MFA in Dramatic Writing emphasis at the University of Idaho. His play The Lake received its Equity World Premiere at Philadelphia’s historic Walnut Street Theatre, and was produced at Mill Mountain Theatre as part of the 2005 Norfolk Southern Festival of New Works. The 22-Day Adagio was produced at the 2004 Norfolk Southern Festival. His short play Santa Fe was a finalist for the 2004 Heideman Award from the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville and received its Equity World Premiere in May at New York’s Stageworks/Hudson’s Play By Play Festival. Santa Fe was subsequently produced by The Theatre-Studio, Inc., in NYC as part of their PlayTime Series, most recently at Madhouse Theatre in Philadelphia. Its companion piece, Western Mentality, received a developmental reading at New York’s Triangle Theatre in September. Recent directing credits include Boy Gets Girl (which was presented in April at the Kennedy Center as a national finalist for the American College Theatre Festival), Our Country’s Good, and Front for the Department of Theatre and Film, and The Underpants, HUSH: An Interview with America, The Rivals, and Biloxi Blues for Idaho Repertory Theatre Company. His play Kissing was developed last year in Valdez in the Play Lab. He recently optioned the film rights to his play Letters to an Alien.
playwright and his mother, Peg, directed him in a number of plays while he was growing up in Virginia and Ohio. Frank trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University where he performed street theatre, helped establish Pinecrest Theatre in the Sierra Nevadas, then went on to earn an MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Appearing in over 150 productions, Frank has worked Off-Broadway, with the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Chamber Repertory Theatre in Boston, Denver Center Theatre Company and Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts in Solvang, California. His theatrical roles have ranged from Puck in A Midsummer's Nights Dream to Miss Havisham in Great Expectations to Scigolsch in Lulu. In Los Angeles, Frank has acted in productions at the Bilingual Foundation of the Arts and Los Angeles Theatre Company. Frank is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. His performance as Mr. Peachum in The Beggars' Opera was honored as best supporting actor by the LA Weekly. Frank's film work includes The Village, The Whole Ten Yards, Hope Spring, Hidalgo, Suspect Zero, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Majestic, Mobsters, The Last Boy Scout, Buddy, Alien Nation, Diggstown, The Blob, My Summer Story and Wild at Heart which won the Golden Palm Award at Cannes. Frank is best known to television audiences as Horace Bing, the bumbling telegraph operator on CBS's Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. His extensive television appearances include guest-starring roles on Monk, Stargate Atlantis, HBO's Carnivale, Seventh Heaven, NYPD Blue, Star Trek, the Next Generation, and Hill Street Blues. Frank and his wife, Laura Gardner, reside in Los Angeles with his three children. He remains active in theatre while pursuing a film career. In August Frank will begin filming of M. Night Shymalan's next film "The Happening" in Pennsylvania.
Raise the Roof (NewYork Theatre Workshop), Snapshot Silhouette (Minneapolis’ Children’s Theatre), Slide Glide the Slippery Slope (Humana, Mark Taper Forum), The Venus de Milo Is Armed (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Breath, Boom (London's Royal Court Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Yale Rep, Huntington Theatre and elsewhere), Force Continuum (Atlantic Theater Company), Splash Hatch on the E Going Down (New York Stage and Film, Baltimore's Center Stage, Yale Rep, London's Donmar Warehouse Theatre), Seeking the Genesis (Goodman Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club), Digging Eleven (Hartford Stage Company), Life by Asphyxiation (Playwrights Horizons), Wake Up Lou Riser (Delaware Theatre Company), Come Down Burning (American Place Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre), Cage Rhythm (Sightlines/The Point in the Bronx). Awards include the Barbara Barondess MacLean Foundation Award, AT&T On Stage Award, Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, the Taper's Fadiman Award, National Endowment for the Arts/TCG, Kennedy Center Fund, New Professional Theatre Playwriting Award, Callaway Award. Summer 2006 she workshopped Sam’s Coming at New York Stage and Film and Labyrinth, and fall 2006 she will workshop Tap the Leopard at the Guthrie Theater, inspired by her trip to Liberia sponsored by the theatre. Kia is an alumnus of New Dramatists.
performed across the United States and abroad, with her most recent full-length work Tear Up the Front Page premiering in 2006 andtouring in 2007. She is the producing artistic director of TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater, based in Madison, Wisconsin, and working nationally and internationally. A member of the Network of Ensemble Theaters, the Company is committed to artistic innovation and community connection, incorporating extensive outreach into Company-developed productions and touring performances. Recent performances and workshops have taken Danielle from performing arts centers to botanical gardens and a conservative fundamentalist preacher’s house (everyone lived!). As a residency artist, she divides her time between college students and work with children from disadvantaged backgrounds. A former reporter and giant water drop, Danielle is also a trained arts administrator. Her awards include the Council of Wisconsin Writers Drama Award in 2006, 2003 and 2000 and she was a finalist for the Yukon Pacific Prize in 1999. An excerpt from her play Athena, Live! will be published in Volume II of Young Women's Monologues from Contemporary Plays in Summer 2007.jpg)
is a proud alumna of Arizona State University, the founder and Artistic Director of Blue Roses Productions, Inc. (NYC, www.blueroses.org), and Artistic Associate for Circle East Inc. (formerly Circle Rep, NYC). Her work in NYC has been seen at the Lion Theatre, The American Place; Neighborhood Playhouse, Manhattan Theatresource, LaMama, Goldberg Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Chasama, Polaris North, and Laurie Beecham Theater, to name a few; regionally, at White Birch, Sag Harbor, Pocono Playhouse, LongWharf, Hartford Stage, Scranton Public, Fernwood, and Valdez, Alaska. Ms. Duricko has developed and/or premiered hundreds of new plays, including work by Tennessee Williams, Craig Lucas, Lanford Wilson, Alan Havis, Lisa Humbertson, John Yearley, Guillermo Reyes, and many other emerging and seasoned writers. She has received drama critic awards for outstanding direction (3 states), A Cervantes Grant and is the recipient of the Tennessee Williams Award, presented in Mississippi, for Outstanding Contributions Preserving, Promoting and Perpetuating the Work of Mr. Williams. Ms. Duricko is on the national advisory board for the Delta Tennessee Williams Festival in Mississippi, a member of the First Look Theatre Company, The Drama League, listed in Who's Who in Entertainment. Devoted to the development of new writers, directors and actors, she teaches University and professional class as frequently as time permits. Erma is married to Dr. Allen Duricko and is the mother of actor Marissa Danielle and composer Jeff Duricko. 
for her performance in FIGHTING WORDS, which opened at the Celtic Arts Center in Los Angeles and then transferred to the Millennium Center in Wales. She is a faculty member at the HOWARD FINE STUDIO, one of LA's finest professional acting programs. Laura trained at Boston University, Rutgers and Herbert Berghof Studios where she studied with Uta Hagen and Carol Rosenfeld. Laura appeared on Broadway in Smile. Her Off-Broadway credits include The Cocktail Hour with Nancy Marchand, and Bruce Davison, Other People’s Money; and Welded, directed by Jose' Quintero. She toured nationally with Showboat, Doonesbury; Oliver, and My Fair Lady. Her extensive regional credits include the Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, and the NC Shakespeare Festival. L.A. credits include Pasadena Playhouse, Will Geer Botanicum, Westwood Playhouse, Tiffany Theatre, Fountain Theatre, Deaf West, and the Road. You may have seen Laura and her actor husband, Frank Collison recurring on the NBC hit, My Name is Earl. Some of her other TV and film credits include Close to Home, Criminal Minds, The West Wing, Judging Amy, Boston Public, The Gilmore Girls, Party of Five, Callback, the Movie, Profiles, L.A. Law, Cheers . Laura teaches a class for actors with disability for Media Access in North Hollywood and in San Francisco. Ms. Gardner has taught in Wales at The Actors Workshop and the Academy of Musical Theatre, in NYC at HB Studios, Stella Adler Institute, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She also taught at the NC School of the Arts, Circle Theatre, Palm Beach Community College, and the George Street Playhouse. In Los Angeles, she has taught at Santa Monica College, Actors' Center International, West Coast Ensemble, Women in Theatre and the Road Theatre. She resides in Los Angeles with her actor husband, Frank Collison, and her 3 step children.
in the Department of Dramatic Writing Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He has produced the last eighteen Festivals of New Works for NYU, working with hundreds of playwrights, directors and actors. Garrison’s plays include It Belongs on Stage (and Not in My Bed), Crater, Old Soles, Padding The Wagon, Rug Store Cowboy, Cherry Reds, Gawk, Oh Messiah Me, We Make A Wall, The Big Fat Naked Truth, Scream With Laughter, Smoothness With Cool, Empty Rooms, Does Anybody Want A Miss Cow Bayou? and When A Diva Dreams. This work has been featured at Primary Stages, The Directors Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, StageWorks, Fourth Unity, Open Door Theatre, African Globe Theatre Company, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Expanded Arts and New York Rep. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, The Playwright’s Survival Guide: Keeping the Drama in Your Work and Out of Your Life, Perfect Ten: Writing and Producing the Ten‑Minute Play and co-editor of two volumes of Monologues for Men by Men with Michael Wright. He is a the Program Director for the Summer Playwriting Intensive for the Kennedy Center, the National Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theater Festival and the Artistic Director for both The First Look Theatre Company at NYU as well as Playwrights’ PlayGround of Manhattan. On January 1, 2007, he will be moving into the role of Executive Director (Creative Affairs) for the Dramatists Guild of America. 
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Michael Hood was professor of theatre at the University of Alaska Anchorage for 22 years. He was awarded the President's Award of the Northwest Drama Conference in 1994, and received the UAA Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1998. Five of his productions have won regional recognition from the KC/ACTF, most recently Zastrozzi: Master of Discipline for IUP in 2004. Mr. Hood has worked professionally on stage, in film, on radio and television, and has twice directed professionally in the Russian Far East. His production of True West, mounted in Yuzhno-Sahkalinsk in 1994, traveled to acclaim in Khabarovsk and later to Moscow, where it played the new stage at the Moscow Art Theatre in the fall of 1995. In 1997 his UAA production of A Piece of My Heart was performed by invitation at the PODIUM Festival in Moscow. His most recent publication (2000) appeared in Theater sans frontieres, a collection of critical essays on the work and process of Canadian director and animateur Robert Lepage. In 2003, Hood was elected to membership in the National Theater Conference.
the 78th Street Theatre Lab, directed by Eric Nightengale. The 
years. Mr. Irvine began his professional theater career in 1974 when he was hired to work in the office for Circle Repertory Theater Company. Two years later he was made a resident director and a member of the Company. As Director of the LAB, Mr. Irvine worked with many actors, directors, and playwrights creating classes and workshops and a performance space for the Company as well as LAB participants. The LAB was a place to grow artistically and was free of any commercial pressure. At Circle Rep, Mr. Irvine created the popular Late Show series which premiered original one-act plays following the mainstage productions and gave young directors like himself a chance to work professionally. Mr. Irvine received a N.E.A. Directing Fellowship in 1981 and was invited to the former Soviet Union in 1985 as a distinguished theater artist. He moved to Los Angeles in 1986 and while working at the Ahmanson Theater with Marshall W. Mason was approached by Circle Rep actors Conchata Ferrell and Lisa Pelikan to help create Circle Rep West for Company members living in LA. He produced their first production, On The Edge, a series of 10 original one-act plays, in 1987, and Circle Rep West was launched. In 1994, he left one desert for another by moving to Phoenix and immediately began to act and direct in the professional theater before being hired to teach acting and directing at Arizona State University. During the ten year period working for The Katherine K. Herberger School of Theater, he acted in and directed many of the productions as well as being an advisor for student productions. He received the College of Fine Arts Award for Excellence in 1996, and in 1997 he created a highly acclaimed cable television course called Intro To Theater with Professor Danny. It introduced students from all over the world to theater history and the art of live theater performances. Professor Danny was given two awards by ASU for Educator of the Year and in 2000 was nominated as Teacher of The Year. In 2004 he retired from teaching and moved to Mazatlan, Mexico, where he lives in a house high on a cliff overlooking the Sea of Cortes. Every Spring and Summer, Mr. Irvine returns to New York for the theater and museum fix that carries him thru the winter in the tropics; however, this past Spring he began discussions with other theater lovers in Mazatlan about the possibility of creating Theater By The Sea Mazatlan. 
active in local Stage of the Tide productions. She has acted (Clairee in Steel Magnolias, Edna Mae Carter in Just Desserts), sung (Golde in Fiddler on the Roof, Queen Aggravain in Once Upon a Mattress, Sarah in Quilters) and directed (You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown). In her offstage hours Barclay teaches at PWSCC, launches kayak tours, and answers questions about proper apostrophe usage. She dreams of mastering the triple buck and wing step. 
has been involved in developing new plays for over twenty years. She taught in the Dramatic Writing Program at NYU for ten years before her current position as associate professor at Adelphi University. Maggie has worked in New York City and regionally as a director. Her most recent new works directed include the workshop of a new musical Once Around the Block at Steinway Hall, a one act play, Thresholds at Adelphi University, an MFA thesis reading of The Eden Project at The New School in NYC, and numerous cabaret-theatre productions (sketches and songs in the Brechtian tradition) including three with music written by Jonathan Larson (Rent). Maggie has directed readings of new plays at venues including The Public Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Jewish Repertory Theatre, The DR2 Theatre, and through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival where she is currently Chair of Region 2 (Delaware, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Washington, DC). She has taught cabaret writing and performance workshops at colleges and universities including NYU, Duke University, University of Michigan, Iowa State University, University of Pennsylvania and currently at Adelphi University. She is a member of The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
years, directing 28 plays, including 15 world premieres, and developing several new play programs. Prior and post HTY, he has been a freelance stage and video director in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Seattle, and Hawai’i, specializing in developing and directing new plays at such theatres as New Dramatists, Arena Stage, New York Theatre Workshop, Public Theatre, Kennedy Center New Visions/New Voices, Taller Latinoamericano, George Street Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Seattle Group Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, First Stage Milwaukee, Annex Theatre, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, and Kumu Kahua Theatre. He was founding director of The Road Show in L.A. and Theatre for Your Mother in the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the founding executive director Rain City Projects, a Pacific Northwest playwrights’ service organization; a producer, director, and writer of award-winning interactive media; a founding member of Theatre Puget Sound; and a trustee of the Hawai’i State Theatre Council. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and currently plays accordion and keyboards for Kupa’aina. 
Company, acclaimed by the New York Times as “the chief provider of new American plays.” His 40-year collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lanford Wilson has been certified by Playbill as the longest collaboration between a writer and director in the history of the American theater. Mr. Mason directed twelve plays on Broadway that earned him five Tony nominations for Best Director: Knock Knock by Jules Feiffer, Talley’s Folly (New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize), Fifth of July and Angels Fall by Lanford Wilson, and As Is by William M. Hoffman (Drama Desk Award for Best Play). Four productions received Tony Awards, and there were 24 nominations. His other productions on Broadway include Burn This, Redwood Curtain, The Seagull and Gemini. Off-Broadway, Mr. Mason has been honored with five Obie Awards for Outstanding Director (The HOT L BALTIMORE, Battle of Angels, The Mound Builders, Serenading Louie, and Knock Knock), as well as a sixth Obie for sustained achievement. Among his many memorable productions are Edward J. Moore’s The Sea Horse (Vernon Rice Award for Best Play), William Mastrosimone’s Sunshine, Romulus Linney’s Childe Byron, Larry Kramer’s The Destiny of Me (Lortel Award for Best Play), Robert Patrick’s The Haunted Host, David Storey’s The Farm, and Lanford Wilson’s first full-length play Balm in Gilead and his most recent, Book of Days (American Critics’ Association Award for Best Play). His work has been seen nationwide with productions such as O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night, Pinter’s Old Times, Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Summer and Smoke, and A Streetcar Named Desire, Ibsen’s Ghosts, Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? and Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmann at theaters like Washington’s Arena Stage, the Guthrie in Minneapolis, the Ahmanson and the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, the Repertory Theater of St. Louis, the Milwaukee Rep, the Pittsburgh Public, the Hartford Stage, and the Arizona Theater Company. Internationally, he has directed Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In Tokyo at the National Theater of Japan, and Lanford Wilson’s Home Free! and The Madness of Lady Bright in London. Mr. Mason has been honored with the Theater World Award for his discovery and nourishment of new talent, such as William Hurt, Kathy Bates, Christopher Reeve, Jeff Daniels and many others. He received the Margo Jones Award for his cultivation of new writers, and both the Inge Festival Award and the Last Frontier Award for lifetime achievement. He has won the Irwin Piscator Award, three DramaLogue Awards and four AriZoni Awards. In 1999 he was awarded a special millennium “Mr. Abbott” Award as one of the most innovative and influential directors of the twentieth century. He is the author of Creating Life on Stage: A Director’s Approach to Working with Actors (Heinemann Press, 2006). Professor Emeritus of Arizona State University, Mr. Mason now divides his time between Mazatlán, México and New York City.
Company in New York, and has been involved in the discovery, development, and production of new plays since the 1960s. Beginning at Caffe Cino and LaMama Experimental Theatre Club, he collaborated with new writers such as Lanford Wilson, William M. Hoffman, and Sam Shepard. For 15 years, Mr. Powell was Artistic Director of the Circle Repertory Company LAB, in which a new play was presented weekly. These productions were designed to serve the writer and the play-in-progress, and were closed to the public and for development only. This process supplied many of the new plays seen on the Circle Rep Mainstage, including William M. Hoffman’s As Is and Craig Lucas’ Prelude to a Kiss. Circle East Theatre Company grew out of the principles, traditions, and membership of Circle Rep. At the Last Frontier Theatre Conference, he was the driving force behind the creation and development of both the Play Lab and the Fringe Festival. Under his guidance, the Play Lab grew from six participating Alaska writers in 1995 to upwards of 100 participants from across the country each year.
on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown, Deporting the Divas, Miss Consuel, The Seductions of Johnny Diego, Mother Lolita, and Places to Touch Him, among others. New plays include the Suspects, which premiered at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis in April, 2005, and Sunrise at Monticello, which premiered at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey in October, 2005. We Lost it at the Movies was produced by ASU Mainstage Theatre in November, 2005. Farewell to Hollywood, a rewritten version of an earlier play, debuted at Bloomington Playwrights Theatre in September, 2006. Chilean Holiday was produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, and published in Humana Festival ’96: The Complete Plays (Smith and Kraus). Men on the Verge won Theatre L.A.’s Ovation Award for Best World Premiere Play and Best Production, 1994, and has since played across the country, including New York City, where it won the 1996 Emerging Playwright Award and received an Off-Broadway production by Urban Stages at the 47th Street Playhouse. Reyes received his Masters Degree in Playwriting from University of California, San Diego. He’s currently Associate Professor of Theatre at Arizona State University in Tempe and head of the playwriting program. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
artist with over 400 major productions to his credit in theater and film. His theater work includes: (Acting) Seven Guitars, Fences, Fraternity, Suicide in B Flat, Greater Tuna, The Promise, J.B., House of Blue Leaves, No Exit, The Glass Menagerie, The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Hot L. Baltimore, Catch 22, Ovid's Metamorphoses, El Grande de Coca Cola, Medal of Honor Rag, as well as the title role in Othello. 
Company in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Before coming to the United States she was Artistic Director of Hysterick Theatre Company in Tokyo and acted, produced and directed for this and several other theatre companies there. In NY she has been a member of the director's group at the Looking Glass Theatre, and has directed at the Ensemble Studio Theatre Institute. In the pursuit of developing new plays she has directed for the NY and the Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, the BRIC in Brooklyn, Manhattan Theatre Source and the HERE Arts Centre. She is also currently involved with the Kennedy Centre American College Theatre Festival as a director, dramaturg and respondent for the New Plays Program.
Program. He has worked in the literary departments of many theaters, including Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center (NYU's Playwright-in-Residence). His work has been produced Off-Broadway, on the London fringe, throughout the U.K. and in regional theaters across the U.S. and Canada. His adaptation of the 1939 Federal Theatre Project script, Timber, (lyrics & music by Edd Key), was featured on NPR and toured for seven years with Seattle Public Theater. His most recently commissioned full-length, John Lennon’s Gargoyle, has been read, workshopped, and produced at a number of fine institutions, including ACT, New York Theater Workshop, Seattle Rep, Theater Schmeater and Western Washington University. His one-act, Sophie, was a hit at the 2002 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and later premiered on BBC Radio. Sophie received its U.S. its Equity premiere in Pittsburgh with the Unseam’d Shakespeare Co. and was produced earlier this year at Tacoma Actors Guild. Other recent commissions include a feature length screenplay, Centerville (with Matt Farnsworth), Northwest Passage (FringeACT, workshopped at ACT), a stage adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s utopian novella, Herland (lyrics & music by Edd Key), and a series of actor improv outlines for the Pacific Science Center’s upcoming Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit (fall of ‘06). His newest one-act, Lewis & Clark and the End of the World, premiered with Harlequin Productions in 2004 and is currently touring. Bryan is the proud recipient of a Theater Fellowship from Artist Trust and has also received the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for his work with the American College Theater Festival. He currently teaches Playwriting at Western Washington University. Bryan also serves as Playwright-in-Residence for Tacoma Actors Guild; Literary Director for the Northwest Playwrights Alliance and as artistic director for the Academy of International Education’s Summer Theater Workshop at Tacoma Actors Guild.
Elves, Accidental Friends, Bleachers in the Sun, (The Ugly Ugly), The Forgiving Harvest, Frog and Toad (Forever), The Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi, The Last Paving Stone, Mask of the Unicorn Warrior, Nothing is the Same, Othello (4-actor adaptation), The Portrait the Wind the Chair, River Rat and Cat, and The Witch of Blackbird Pond. Adult plays include American 60s in Three Ax, The Bottom of the Ninth, Framed, The Game of Light, Gerald’s Good Idea, It Comes Around, Krisit, Life Gap, The New Dark Clarity, Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants., The Secret Wife, and The Snowflake Avalanche. Y’s plays have been widely produced, and are published by Broadway Play Publishing and Dramatic Publishing, and variously anthologized. Y has been recognized and supported by numerous awards including AATE’s 2002 Charlotte Chorpenning Award for a body of work in children’s theatre. Y is a member of the Dramatists’ Guild and a proud almuna of New Dramatists. She currently lives, writes, and teaches on the island of O’ahu.