Sierra Blanco won Stephen Sondheim's National Young Playwrights Competition, Writopia's Worldwide Plays Competition, and the NYC Write A Play! Competition and was twice an invited Guest Playwright to the Eugene O'Neill's Young Playwrights Festival at the National Theater Institute. He is a current member of The Dramatists Guild and The Playwrights Center. Recently he has branched out into new directions, including screenwriting and directing a Shakespeare workshop at the Federal Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Two of his plays have been translated and produced in foreign languages. His plays have won Bailiwick Theatre’s annual new play award, an Illinois Arts Council $1000 Excellence Award, and acceptance at the University of Michigan Experimental Theatre Festival. He has authored more than thirty full-length and one-act plays produced throughout Chicago, as well as in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. He taught playwriting at Victory Gardens Theatre and was Playwright-in-Residence at Raven Theatre, both leading Chicago theatres. For twenty-five years he directed the Creative Writing program at Northeastern Illinois University. Website: Allan Bates, the author of three successfully produced full-length children’s plays and one yet-to-be produced, has forty years’ experience as a playwright. A Hollins Children's Literature MFA graduate and Playwright's Lab Core Faculty member, Nicole is also a member of the Dramatists Guild and TYA/USA. Bonderman Award and recognition in the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Marilyn Hall competition. National playwriting awards include the Waldo M. She collaborated with Matt Omasta of Utah State University on a book entitled Playwriting and Young Audiences: Collected Wisdom and Practical Advice from the Field (Intellect Press, 2017). She has six plays published through YouthPLAYS, where she also serves as Artistic Associate. Her plays have been performed at Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Hollins University, Mill Mountain Theatre, Studio Roanoke, Creative Drama Children's Theatre (Winston-Salem, NC), SkyPilot Theatre (Los Angeles), the American International School (Guanghzou, China), and other theatres, schools and museums nationally and abroad. Adkins has taught classes and workshops to students of various ages at theatres, K-12 schools, and universities.
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