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SUSAN KATHRYN HEFTI
Nationality: USA
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An active member of the Dramatists Guild, Susan Kathryn Hefti is an emerging American playwright. Named Finalist in the 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence competition at the Stella Adler Studio's Playwrights Division, Hefti's newest full-length play American Dames or. . .Waiting For Dolley was also selected for the Studio's 2012 New Play Reading Festival where it was presented in a staged reading produced by the Stella Adler Studio and the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company on April 11, 2012. Her earlier play KEEPIN' COOL - inspired by the tragic death of one of Susan's Yale students - was honored as a Semi-Finalist for the 2004 Princess Grace award. Her history play a DefIant Soul was presented at the St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery Theatre in 2006 and was later adapted to be used as a Theater workshop for NYC students studying early American history and the events leading to the establishment of religious freedom in America. Susan's first play DEAR PRUDENCE made its world premiere at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2003 and has since been translated into French for an upcoming Paris production. Susan first became active in Theatre as a child actor immersing herself in one juicy character after another. While still in graduate school, Susan began her professional writing career as a reporter specializing in environmental news and later transitioned into writing for the stage. She has taught at several universities including Brown and Yale. Susan is currently working on her new play: the POWER PLAY, or. . .Smart Bombs and Other Sexy Toys. SUSAN KATHRYN HEFTI was elected "Writer of the Week" by Kanjy, the online writer's community. You can read the brief interview with the playwright by clicking on this link. (https://tinyurl.com/o8tqxab) Susan's new full-length play ACTIAS LUNA: On the Origin of Madness has been selected for the 2017 New Play Lab at the 36th annual William Inge Theater Festival in Independence, Kansas. The New Play Lab provides the opportunity for Susan to work on the development of her new play in collaboration with the William Inge Theater Festival artistic team, culminating in a reading of a 30-minute extract from ACTIAS LUNA at the festival. Selected for The Hidden Theatre Company's New Writing event in the U.K., Susan's new short-play EXTINCTION, or the Swan Song received a staged reading in London in 2017. EXTINCTION has also been Shortlisted for the Fizzy Sherbet Play Festival in London and was named Finalist for the international literary magazine The Dionysian.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)
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American Dames, Or. . .Waiting For Dolley Dear Prudence Defiant Soul, A Keepin' Cool Off The Bench, or The Schedule Polka Dot Tea Party, The Power Play, The, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy ToysAmerican Dames, Or. . .Waiting For Dolley
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a group of WASPS - Martha, Abigail, Molly, Betsy and Dolley - are suddenly forced to come face to face with the Dramatic shift in America's social, cultural and political landscape when one of their own goes missing and is feared dead. Part comedy of manners, part political and historical satire, AmericaN DAMES or. . .Waiting for Dolley dares to peer over the dark side of a tipping point while asking what it means to be an American in the 21st century.
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(2012 Long Beach Playhouse New Works Festival Finalist; 2011-2012 Harold Clurman Playwright-in-Residence Finalist & Beverly Hills theatre Guild's 2012 Julie Harris Playwriting Award Semi-Finalist) will receive A Mainstage Reading At the Long Beach Playhouse theatre in August 2012. Also selected for the 2012 Harold Clurman Playwrights Division's New Play Reading Festival At the StElla Adler Studio, the play received its first-ever public reading before A full-house in April 2012.
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Staged Reading At The Stella Adler Studio, 31 West 27th Street NYC
11 Apr 2012
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the StElla adler Studio and the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company
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Part comedy of manners, part political and historical satire
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a naughty little comedy about a lovable nymphomaniac.
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Further Reference: http://204.2.109.187/gcn214/sexaholic.php
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Rattlestick theatre
224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014 27 Mar 2003
224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014 27 Mar 2003
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Galanthus Productions
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Top of PageDefiant Soul, A
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Set in 1661, a Defiant Soul brings to life the Dramatic battle of wills between New Amsterdam's Dutch Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant and the english Settler John Bowne whose dangerous and singular act of civil disobedience in defense of the Quakers led directly to the establishment of religious freedom in the new world.
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Staged Reading, St. Marks Church-In-The-Bowery Theatre, 131 East 10th Street At 2nd AVenue NYC
18 Nov 2006
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Bowne House/5 Dutch Days
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History Play written in Verse
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examining the question of whether the line between the living and the dead may be more porous than we think, Keepin' Cool - a bittersweet love story inspired by the tragic death of one of the author's Yale students - explores questions of fate, loss, the boundaries of social convention and the deep connections that can transcend them all when unlikely souls unexpectedly collide.
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2004 Semi-Finalist Princess Grace Award
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Comic Drama
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The Reading was convened by Lark Dramaturg Suzy Fay and directed by Vernice Miller. Selected from 1,600 script submissions, SUSAN KATHRYN HEFTI'S very first attempt at writing a TV script - an original pilot entitled AMUSE BOUCHE - was named Semi-Finalist for the 2015 Screencraft Pilot Launch Competition.
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reading at the Lark Play Development Center in NYC
01 Mar 2016
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tells the story of an awkward teenage Praying Mantis, named Joan, and the stylish clique of Ladybugs she so desperately wants to join.
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Top of PagePower Play, The, or Smart Bombs & Other Sexy Toys
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Named Colonial Players' Promising Playwright Award 2015 Semifinalist. Given a workshop reading directed by NYTW Directing Fellow Reg Douglas at New York Theatre Workshop on February 20, 2014: https://tinyurl.com/kqmysml. Also given 2 Roundtable Readings at the Lark Play Development Center; one in July 2013 and one in November 2013.
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Stage Reading Playwrights' Revolution At Capital Stage In Sacramento, California
17 Aug 2013
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