Playwrights
ELLEN K. GRAHAM
NICOLETTE VAJTAY
SIGNIFICANT
Ellen K. Graham is delighted to return to the Play Crawl for the sixth time. Her work has been produced in Chicago, Columbus, NYC, and Denver, where she has worked with Buntport, Catamounts, BETC, And Toto Too, the Denver Center, and many other companies. She is the founder of Feral Assembly, a co-founder of Shocking Beyond Belief! Films, and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.
REBECCA GORMAN O’NEILL
CUSTOMER SERVICE
After receiving her BFA from Montclair State University, Nicolette completed her academic training with an apprenticeship at Actors Theatre of Louisville and graduate studies with The American Repertory Theatre’s Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She made her NYC debut off-Broadway in 1992, and traversed the country, performing regionally for many years. She officially started writing in 2003 and studied Advanced Playwriting under Leon Martel at UCLA Extension School, with Terry Dodd and Michael Catlin at the Lighthouse in Denver, and with Terrie Silverman in Los Angeles. Her writing is deeply influenced by her spiritual curiosity of this thing called life and the exploration of humanity. Nicolette’s plays have been produced with the San Diego International Fringe Festival, Theatre District LA, NoHo Arts Center, Athena Project, Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region, Colorado Theatre Guild New Voices, Six Women Playwrights, And Toto too, Bolder Life Festival, Theatre Company of Lafayette, One Night Stand Theatre, C4 Theatre, Tri-Media Film Festival, Open Eye Theatre in NY, and Follies in FL. NicoletteVajtay.com
EDITH WEISS
HALFWAY UP THE STAIRS
Rebecca Gorman O’Neill is an English Professor at the Metropolitan State University of Denver, where she teaches playwriting, screenwriting, cinema studies, and the graphic novel. Her plays have been produced across the country, and are available through Eldridge Publishing, Dramatic Publishing, and Next Stage Press. https://newplayexchange.org/users/5673/rebecca-gorman-oneill
LINDA BERRY
FINDING MY MOM
Edith Weiss, third person, loves the play crawl. She loves the actors that work for the love of it. She loves writing short pieces to an environment. Her youth theater plays, children's plays, and comedic murder mysteries have been performed in small theaters, colleges, and schools almost everywhere. Okay not in Antarctica. But (switching to first person) I'm working on that. And I love you the audience for supporting And Toto too.
NINA ALICE MILLER
LOST WALLET
Linda Berry's varied published credits include poetry, short fiction for children and adults, preschool curriculum, a newspaper entertainment column, craft articles, a stint as editor of a tennis magazine (although she's never been a tennis player), and six cozy mystery novels. Several of her short plays have been prizewinners, and have been published and/or produced. She 's a member of Colorado Dramatists and the Denver Woman's Press Club. www.ogeechee.avigne.org
TAMI CANADAY
CHRISTIE BRENNER WINN
MELISSA LUCERO MCCARL
REST STOP
Nina Alice Miller is a playwright, dramaturg and theatrical community-builder in Denver, Colorado. She is co-founder and co-producer of Denver’s Rough Draught Playwrights: An Open Mic Theatrical Playground; co-founder of the Dirtyfish Theater collective; and has dramaturged for Athena Project Festival, the University of Georgia, and the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture. Her full-length plays are The Living (Athena Project Festival, workshop production), Fisheaters (Vintage New Play Festival staged reading), Agon of the West (And Toto too staged reading and a Creede Headwaters finalist), Whole World and Daughtering (in development). Her short plays include Nano Diving (Red Rocks Community College Western Showcase), Bullies and Friends (Mirror Image Arts, commission), Boomtown IDP (Dirtyfish Theater, full production), Delaware (And Toto too), Nomads of Disaster/Listening to Chernobyl (Millibo Art Theatre, full production) and American Herring (And Toto too, full production; Millibo Art Theatre, full production). Nina is a regular contributor to the Play Crawl (And Toto too Theatre) and a member of the Dramatists Guild. She is a graduate of North Carolina School of the Arts and holds a PhD in English from Northwestern University.
POP UP ROMANCE
Tami Canaday’s stage plays have been performed in the U.S., Canada, and Japan. Highlights include performances at the Left Theatre, Luminous Group Theatre, SourceTheatre, and the Producer’s Club. Count Down to Zero commissioned and produced her play, Uncle Rooster. Recently, her play Jeremiah was produced by Benchmark Theatre.
FILLER UP
Christie is Executive Director of REM Stage Productions and a proud second grade teacher at Van Arsdale Elementary! Some of her plays include The Mommy Rants, Cabaret Kalisz, Three Tales of Poe, and Magpie. Her work has been produced throughout Colorado. She is currently working on The Witchy Play and Ruby Slippers with Michelle Claire Romeo and Theatre O in Boulder. Christie holds a BA in Theater from UNC and a MAT in Language Arts from Northeastern University in Chicago. As always, she loves writing for the Play Crawl. Thank you, Susan Lyles and And Toto too Theatre Company!
"She's a dreamer, a doer, a thinker. She sees possibilities everywhere."
PROCESSING
Painted Bread, Melissa’s full length play about the life of Frida Kahlo, was voted "Best New Play" by the Denver Post. She was commissioned by the Jewish Community Center to write Poignant Irritations, about the life of Gertrude Stein ("Best Local Playwright" by Westword), and commissioned by Bonnie Metzgar to write for The War Anthology at Curious Theatre Co. Her one act play, Carlene Yakkin is a recipient of the Steven Dietz award. Her critically acclaimed play Lost Creatures was produced 2016 by And Toto too Theatre Company and was nominated for a Henry award. Most recently, her play The Heartbeat of the Sun was produced by Cherry Creek Theatre. She was commissioned by the Aurora Fox Arts Center to write a play about Norma Walker, the first and only female mayor of Aurora, which will have a public reading in October of this year. Melissa currently teaches playwriting for Lighthouse Writers Workshop and the Denver Center Theatre Company.