The Writers of 2012’s Theater Program…
Tom Coash
Kamasutra
Tom Coash is a New Haven, Ct. playwright and director. Prior to New Haven, he taught playwriting at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. Coash has worked for such theaters as the Manhattan Theatre Club and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has won numerous playwriting awards, and his plays have been produced worldwide. Most recently, he was named the Winner of the Middle-Eastern Playwriting Competition at the American University of Sharjah, UAE.
Laura Fois Bosley
Tag Lines
Laura is a founding member and Managing Director of UP Theater Company (www.uptheater.org) in upper Manhattan which most recently produced, The Chalkboard Trilogy. Last May she was in UP’s inaugural production All The Best Ingredients in Inwood. As an actor she has also appeared Off-Broadway in Sister’s Dance and A Ritual of Faith. Other NY: Vanishing Point (EST), Cooties; Porcelain Baby (MCC Theatre), The Voice Of the Prairie (Arclight Theatre), Wilde’s Prince (York Theatre) and MendelsSongs a concert of Mendelssohn music and original lyrics. Regionally, credits include: Sylvia, 110 In the Shade, Nunsense (all with Dorset Theatre Festival, Vt.) and As Thousands Cheer (Adirondack Theatre Festival). Laura is a member of AEA & SAG/AFTRA. Tag Lines is her first play. She thanks the women of her writing group for inspiring her while writing the play and her husband James, who encouraged her to start writing in the first place.
Elan Garonzik
Eternity
Elan David Garonzik is the author of Scenes and Revelations, produced at Chicago’s Goodman Theater, off Broadway at The Production Company and on Broadway at Circle in the Square, directed by Sheldon Epps. Scenes and Revelations is produced every year in regional or academic theater, and is included in the anthology, Scenes and Monologues from the New American Theater. Garonzik’s play, The Blue Mercedes, was produced at Actors Theatre of Saint Paul, directed by Ed Stern. In 2012, he was accepted at the prestigious La MaMa International Playwrights Retreat, spending August in Umbria, Italy. He lives in New York City and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and The Playwrights Center.
Steve Gold
Wonderful World of Science
A product of the New York City Public School system, Steve Gold has been involved in Off-Off Broadway theater since the mid 1990’s. As a member of the Enigma Theater Company, he saw several of his plays produced, among them “Joy of Feminism,” “Memories of a Red Cross Man” and “The File on J. Edgar Hoover”; the latter was given a staged reading with the late George Grizzard in the title role. His play “Women and Guns” won the Fratti-Newman Political Play contest in 2011.
Kevin Jones
Exploding Maggie
Kevin Jones is a twice Bafta Cymru nominated drama editor with seven years experience. His 2009 short film The Cornet Player was nominated for best short drama at the Celtic Media Festival. He has also written (Family Picnic) and directed (The Trouble With Gran) for BBC Wales, as part of the It’s My Shout Short Film Scheme. He has directed seven documentaries, most recently The Llanelli Riots (2011) for BBC Wales. Exploding Maggie is part of a new adventure into the world of playwriting.
Judy Klass
Living in a Road Movie
Judy Klass’s full-length plays TRANSATLANTIC and DAMAGE CONTROL have been produced in NYC. Her unproduced full-length STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE won the Dorothy Silver Award in 2006. Her full-length CELL was in a mystery festival in Kentucky and in 2009 was one of three plays nation-wide nominated for an Edgar. It was published by Samuel French. Over twenty of Judy’s one-act plays have gone up, all over the country. She co-wrote the Showtime cable film of Julia Alvarez’s novel In the Time of the Butterflies. Judy’s young-adult novel Au Pair Girl is published by Itoh Press. Her CD Brooklyn Cowgirl is available through cdbaby and iTunes.
Rich Rubin
Rich’s plays have been produced at theaters throughout the U. S., including New York, Chicago, Seattle and Los Angeles. Internationally, his work has been staged in Berlin, Sydney, Singapore, Canada and the U. K. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and Portland’s Nameless Playwrights group.
Erich Toll
Time is Nature’s Way of Ensuring Things Don’t Happen at Once…
Mild-mannered video producer by day, Erich morphs into a lunatic playwright and director by night. He’s vehemently committed to comedy. When recently offered a lucrative Broadway drama, Erich rejected it with a cryptic one-word response: “Nyet!” He’s an-award winning writer, with dozens of plays and films produced. This is his first play for BolderLife. Warm fuzzy love to Erin, Dawn and the entire BolderLife tribe.
Russell Weeks
Sitting Together
Russell Weeks’ plays and monologues have been performed in 36 cities across the United States and Canada. In 2011 & 2012, IT SOUNDS LIKE SCIENCE won six new play contests and four Audience Favorite and Adjudicator’s Awards for Playwriting. In 2010 & 2011, OFF CAMPUS won three contest awards and was published by One Act Depot in 2012. His latest play, CONES, will be performed in Pittsburgh in September 2012, and SUPER C received an award at Words About Nerds Literary Festival in June, 2012. Russell received a Certificate in Playwriting from the University of Washington in 2002 and also earned Bachelor of Science and Masters degrees from Oregon State University. He lives with his wife, Reitha, in Seattle.