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DONNA SPECTOR
Member: Dramatists Guild, Poets
& Writers, Manhattan Oracles
PRODUCTIONS
FULL-LENGTH PLAYS:
The Runaway (see Manhattan Transits)
- Production: NYC Fringe Festival, Xoregos Performing Company, August 2016
Eros & Psyche
- Production: Xoregos Performing Company: NYC, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, 2014
Burying Mother
- Finalist for the Kentucky Women Writers
Prize, 2011
- Staged
reading,
Arthur Seelen Theatre, NYC, 2008
- Workshopped at Manhattan Oracles, 2005-6
- Semi-finalist for the 2006 O'Neill Playwrights Conference
Unforgivable
Act
- Staged reading,
Arthur Seelen Theatre, NYC, 2009
- Finalist for the 2005-6 Panowski Playwriting Award
- Developed in workshop at Manhattan Oracles in 2005
Life Lines
- Finalist in Reverie Productions' Next Generation Competition,
NYC, 2006
- Staged reading at Reverie Productions, NYC, 2006
- Finalist in Theatre Unbound Competition, Minneapolis, 2005
- Staged reading at the Theater WorkShop, NYC, 2002
- Developed at the Harbor Theatre, NYC, 2001-2
Golden
Ladder
- Off-Broadway production at the Players Theatre, New York City,
2002;
- Published in Women Playwrights: Best Plays of 2002 (Smith
& Kraus) and Best Stage Scenes of 2002 (Smith & Kraus). Finalist,
Herbert Mark Newman Theatre contest (then titled How to be Really
Jewish)
- Produced at Hope
College, Michigan, 2004
- Staged Readings: Mirror Stage, Seattle, 2004; International
Women Playwrights Conference, Athens, Greece, 2000; Grove Street Playhouse,
New York 1999
Another
Paradise
- Off Broadway production, Players Theatre, 1986; Chinook Theatre
production, Edmonton, Canada, 1985; Equity Showcase, Open Space Theatre,
TOMI, NYC, 1984; Upstart Stage, Berkeley, CA, 1989
Manhattan
Transits (a.k.a. The Runaway)
- Production: NYC Fringe Festival, Xoregos Performing Company, August 2016
- Semi-finalist in Beverly Hills/Julie Harris contest & Chesterfield
Writer’s Film Project;
- Short-listed in the BBC/British Council International Radio Playwriting
Competition, 2001
- Staged readings: Urban Stages,
NYC, November 2004; Medicine Show, NYC, 1999; Passage Theatre in Trenton,
NJ, 1992; Contemporary Theatre
of Syracuse, NY,1990; Players Theatre, NYC,1989
Dancing
with Strangers
- Semi-finalist in Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project
- Staged Readings: Wings Theatre, NYC, 2001;
Playwrights Theatre of NJ, 1999
Hanging
Women
- Production
at Where Eagles Dare, NYC, 2007
- Production at California
State University, Hayward, 1998
- Staged readings: International Women Playwrights
Conference, Galway, Ireland, 1997; Playwrights
Theatre of NJ, 1996; Summit Theatre, NJ, 1995; Playwrights Harbor, NYC,
1995
Dementia
- Staged Reading, Harbor Theatre, NYC, 1998; two scenes performed
at Producers’ Club, 1999
These
Are My Adults
Finalist in Beverly Hills/Julie Harris & Mill Mountain Theatre contests
- Staged Reading, Playwrights Theatre of NJ,
1996
Seductions
- Staged Readings: Lark Theatre, NYC, in Festival of New Plays,
1996; William Mount-Burke Theatre, NJ, 1996; Playwrights Theatre of
NJ, 1996; George Street Playhouse, NJ, 1995
Strip Talk
on the Boulevard
- Production at Cloverdale Playhouse, Montgomery, Alabama, 2016
-
2008 winner: Acrosstown
Rep’s Sunwall Comedy Prize
- 2003 Semi-finalist,
Bloomington Playwrights Project
- Staged Readings: Acrosstown
Repertory Theatre, Gainesville, FL, 2008; Lark
Theatre Company at the Chelsea Theatre, 1996; Win Atkins Memorial Play
Reading Series, Hoboken, NJ, 1994; Waterfront Ensemble, Players
Theatre and Williams Center (Rutherford, NJ), 1990-1992
Missing
Families
- Semi-finalist:
Mill Mountain Theatre Contest; Bloomfield College Theatre, 1993
- Staged Reading:
Playwrights Theatre of N.J., 2000
A Sense
of Movement
- Miranda Theatre Company (NYC), 1996;
- Production: Creative
Theatre Group, with a grant
from the New York Council for the Arts, 1987
Not for
the Ferryman
- Eileen Heckart
Drama for Seniors Award, Ohio State University
- Production:
Spetses
Theater at Anagyrios College, Greece, 1994; Pickup Styx Production with
a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, 1993; International
Center for Women Playwrights &
Buffalo Ensemble Theatre, 1993
- Staged Readings at Princeton University theater, 1991, Playwrights
Theatre of NJ, 1992, Abingdon Theatre, NYC, 2007
Caught
in the Act
- Productions: Showcase, Players Theatre, NYC,
1988; Warwick Lake Playhouse production, 1987
Mr. Big (Hip! Hip! Hooray!),
a political musical:
- Staged reading: Kaufman Theatre,
NYC, 1987
ONE-ACT PLAYS:
English Majors
-
Staged reading, Mile
Square Theatre, Hoboken, NJ
- Finalist for ATL’s
Heideman Award
The Gray
Bombers
- Staged reading, Playwrights Theatre
of NJ, 1997
The Audition
- Production: one-act play festival, Williams Center, Rutherford,
N.J., 1988
- Staged Reading, The Theater Center,
Philadelphia, 1985
10-20 MINUTE PLAYS:
Short-Term
Affairs
35 IN 10:
THIRTY-FIVE TEN-MINUTE PLAYS (Dramatic Publishing).
- Asphalt Jungle Shorts, Toronto, 2006
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Winner in Palm Springs
National Short Play Fest, finalist in ATL National Ten-Minute Play
Contest
- Productions at Playwrights Circle in Palm Springs, 2003; Gallery
Players, Brooklyn, 2002; Actors on the Verge, NYC, 2001
- Staged reading: Drama West, L.A., 2001
How to Make Yourself Miserable
by Traveling to France with a Frenchman Who Happens to be Your Boyfriend
- Staged reading at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey,
2004
The Hollywood Rapture
Clinic
- Staged reading at Playwrights Theatre of New
Jersey, 2005
- Staged
reading at Atlantic Gallery,
NYC, 2005
The
Church of Empirical Human Cartology
- Legacy Playwrights Festival, Producers Club, NY, 2006
- Staged readings:
Grove St. Playhouse, NYC, 2000; Drama
West, L.A., 2000
Passing
Fancies
- Production: Art Slope, Brooklyn, September, 2016
- SASI Productions’ One Act Festival,
NYC, 2000
The Crystal
Ball
- Published in Soujourn
(Univ.Texas, Dallas), 2008
- Productions: Brewster Theater Company, 2006; Las
Vegas Little Theatre, 2005; Women Seeking at Center Stage, NY, 2004;
Harbor Currents, NYC, 2001
The Kitchen Sink Play
- Productions: Playwrights'
Theatre of N.J.; Gallery Players, 2003
Blind Date
- Productions: Harbor
Currents, Center Stage, NYC; Playwrights Theatre of N.J;
Samuel French One-Act Play Festival, 2003
Dinner with Marvin
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Production at Theatre Southwest, Houston, TX, 2012
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Winner, production: Old Opera House Theatre’s 11th Annual
New Voice Festival
- Staged reading, Playwrights Theatre of N.J., 2004
CONFERENCES
- International Women Playwrights
Conferences, where my plays were selected for readings:
Athens, Greece,
2000; Galway, Ireland, 1997; Buffalo, NY, 1988
- Key
West Theatre Conference, 1988
- Squaw Valley Writers Conference, 1988
PUBLICATIONS
Poems, short stories, plays, scenes and
monologues: Lessons, a chapbook of school poems (Evening Street Press, 2012), Two Worlds, a full-length collection of poems (Aldrich Press, 2012), The Woman Who Married Herself, a full-length collection of poems (Evening Street Press, 2010), Stillwater Review, Kind of a Hurricane Press, Secrets and Dreams, Pyrotechnikon, Lips, Rattle; Women Playwrights:
Best Plays of 2002 (Smith & Kraus), 2002 Best Stage
Scenes (S & K), The Wise Peasant Girl (Youth Plays, 2002), Monologues by Women, for Women,
Even More Monologues for Women, by Women (Heinemann),
Blue Unicorn, The Greensboro Review, Black
River Review, Poet & Critic, Pudding
Magazine (forthcoming), Sycamore Review,
Teachers as Writers, The Connecticut River Review, The
Paterson Literary Review, The
Bellingham Review, Poet Lore, South Florida Poetry Review, Gaia; Plainswoman,
Facets, Journal of New Jersey Poets, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Mudfish,
Oberon, The Pedestal Magazine, XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
(Sherman Asher); At Our Core: Women Writing about Power
(Papier-Mache Press); In the West of Ireland (Enright
House); Emily Dickinson Award Anthology; Notre Dame
Review and Poetica, an Australia Broadcasting Company program
of my poems
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
U.C.L.A. - Theater Arts and English
U.C. Berkeley
- B.A., M.A. in English
HONORS
National Endowment for the Humanities
grants to study abroad: Greece, 1994; Greece, 1990;
N.Y.U.
- N.D.E.A. fellowship in English and Creative Writing
Masters Poetry Prize (David Citino, judge)
Sunwall Comedy Playwriting Prize
Four times winner of The Ginsberg Poetry Award
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Playwright, Rutgers University Summer
Arts Institute
English, Theater, Creative Writing
and French teacher, high school and college
Director, actor, writer: Dementia,
a S.F. Bay Area improvisational theater troupe
Storyteller on Warwick Cable T.V.;
WNYE, New York; KPFA, Berkeley, CA
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