Page 11 - DRT 2021 March

Lawrence College. Laura is a member of Beyond and The Ghost Of Splinter Cove
AEA, SAG-AFTRA and the Dramatists - will premiere in 2019. A two-time
Guild. Love and thanks to Joe and winner of the Kennedy Center Fund for
Zachary. New American Plays Award (Fiction,
Still Life With Iris), Dietz is also a two-
Steven Dietz (playwright) Steven time finalist for the American Theatre
Dietz's 30+ plays and adaptations have Critic's Steinberg New Play Award (Last
been seen at over one hundred regional Of The Boys, Becky's New Car). He
theatres in the United States, as well as received the PEN USA West Award in
Off-Broadway. International Drama for Lonely Planet, and the 2007
productions have been seen in over Edgar Award® for Drama for Sherlock
twenty countries and his work has been Holmes: The Final Adventure. Other
translated into ten languages. Recent widely produced plays and adaptations
world premieres include Bloomsday include Yankee Tavern, Jackie & Me,
(2016 Steinberg New Play Award Shooting Star, Dracula, Inventing Van
Citation); This Random World (40th Gogh, God's Country, Private Eyes, and
Humana Festival of New American The Nina Variations. Dietz taught in the
Plays); and On Clover Road (NNPN graduate playwriting and directing
"rolling world premiere"). Other recent program at UT/Austin for twelve years
work includes Rancho Mirage (Edgerton and continues to work as a Dramatists
New Play Award), The Shimmering, and Guild "Traveling Master," offering
American La Ronde. His two-theatre workshops and master classes around
commission of companion plays for the country.
adult and young audiences - The Great