Biography


CRAIG POSPISIL is the award-winning author of MONTHS ON END, SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, LIFE IS SHORT and a collection of short works CHOOSING SIDES, which are published by Dramatists Play Service. MONTHS ON END had its world premiere at the Purple Rose Theater Company and has had scores of productions around the country, as well as in Australia and Hong Kong. SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN premiered at the Detroit Repertory Theater and more than sixty productions since, including ones in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Paris.  His drama THE DUNES was workshopped at the Venice Theatre, and won Theatre Conspiracy's New Play Contest. Craig also wrote the book to the musical DRIFT, with composer Jeremy Schonfeld, which was produced at the New York Musical Festival, and he is currently writing DOT COMET a new musical with composer Michael Ogborn for the New Musical Development Fund.

Craig is the head writer for theAtrainplays, the acclaimed twenty-four hour theatre project, for which he has written sixteen short plays and musicals since 2002, including IT'S NOT YOU, TOURIST ATTRACTION and THE BEST WAY TO GO, which are published by Playscripts in theAtrainplays and theAtrainplays Vol. II. IT'S NOT YOU was translated into Chinese and published in An Anthology of Contemporary American Short Plays in Beijing, and is also included in Take Ten II: New Ten Minute Plays from Vintage Books. TOURIST ATTRACTION is collected in Best Stage Scenes 2006. Another Atrainplay FREE was a finalist for the Heideman Award, had a six week run at the City Theatre in Miami, Florida, and is part of the CHOOSING SIDES collection.

Other publications include ON THE EDGE, which appears in LIFE IS SHORT, Under Thirty: Plays for a New Generation,  and Best Ten-Minute Plays 2005, 2 Actors; GUERILLA GORILLA in Plays and Playwrights 2001, and an original monologue A PICTURE HOOK in Monologues for Men by Men. Selections from MONTHS ON END appeared in Best Stage Scenes 2002 and Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2002. His play PERCHANCE is published in the Best Ten Minute Plays 2006, and A MOTHER'S LOVE is part of Best Women's Stage Monologues 2007. Craig won the Alan Minieri award for THE AMERICAN DREAM REVISITED, and his one-act plays, ON THE EDGE, INFANT MORALITY, PUT ASUNDER and THE SUBWAY, were produced for radio broadcast by Stage Shadows Productions at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York.

Craig's work has been seen at Ensemble Studio Theatre, New World Stages, Atlantic Theater, Bay Street Theater, New York Musical Festival, PSNBC, Vital Theater, West Coast Ensemble and the Caldwell Theater, and has been performed in Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Samoa, Spain and Hong Kong.  His plays have been translated into Danish, French and Cantonese.  He is the editor of Outstanding Men’s Monologues and Outstanding Women’s Monologues, Volumes 1 and 2, published by Dramatists Play Service.  A native New Yorker, Craig received his Masters from New York University’s Dramatic Writing Department. Craig is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and Artistic Advisor to the Winter Harbor Theatre Company in Los Angeles and Portland, Maine.  He lives in New York with a fine imported French cat named Elle.

 

 
   
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