Biography


CRAIG POSPISIL is the author of the award-winning plays MONTHS ON END and SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN and the collection LIFE IS SHORT, all of which are published by Dramatists Play Service. MONTHS ON END received its world premiere at the Purple Rose Theater Company and has had dozens of productions around the country, as well as in Australia and Hong Kong. SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN premiered at the Detroit Repertory Theater and has over sixty productions, including ones in New York, Los Angeles and Paris.  His drama THE DUNES was workshopped at the Venice Little Theatre in Florida and won Theatre Conspiracy's New Play Contest. He and composer Jeremy Schonfeld are completing work on the musical DRIFT which was produced as part of the 2006 New York Musical Festival, and Craig is currently at work on a commission for a new musical.

As head writer for theAtrainplays, the acclaimed twenty-four hour theatre project, Craig has written fifteen Atrainplays and musicals, including IT'S NOT YOU and TOURIST ATTRACTION, which are published by Playscripts Inc., and which have been translated into Chinese for An Anthology of Contemporary American Short Plays for the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press in Beijing.  IT'S NOT YOU is also included in the anthology Take Ten II: New Ten Minute Plays from Vintage Books, and TOURIST ATTRACTION is included in Best Stage Scenes 2006. His Atrainplay FREE went on to have a six week run at the City Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida and was a finalist for the Heideman Award.

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 the anthology Plays and Playwrights 2001, and an original monologue A PICTURE HOOK in Monologues for Men by Men.  Selections from MONTHS ON END appeared in the anthologies Best Stage Scenes 2002 and Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2002.   His play PERCHANCE is now published in the Best Ten Minute Plays 2006 collection from Smith & Kraus. Craig won the Alan Minieri award for THE AMERICAN DREAM REVISITED, and four of 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, Bay Street Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York Musical Festival, PSNBC, Vital Theater, West Coast Ensemble and the Caldwell Theater, and has been performed in Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany and Hong Kong.  His plays have been translated into French and Cantonese.  He is the editor of Outstanding Men’s Monologues Vol. 1 and Outstanding Women’s Monologues Vol. 1, 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 Portland, Maine.  He lives in New York with the actress and producer Jane Petrov.

 

 
   
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