Biography of Stuart Warmflash

A native New Yorker, Mr. Warmflash has been involved with the theatre for over thirty years. After graduating from NYU he attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After a successful acting career on Broadway (with the distinguished APA-Phoenix Repertory Co.), off-Broadway, regionally (Seattle Rep.) as well as in film and television, he began writing and directing. His first play, "Art's Life" played an extended run on Theatre Row and his seven subsequent full-length works have all been read and/or performed in and outside NYC. "Lost at Sea", a comic satire, won two National Play Contests including the New Play Festival at the Charlotte Repertory Company. "Heart-Timers", won first prize and a production at both the Theatre-in-the-Works contest (Amherst, MA) and the Festival of Emerging American Theatre contest at the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis. For two and half years, Mr. Warmflash toured his highly acclaimed one-man show, "A Map And A Cap. . ." "Owning the Knuckleball" was developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and was produced in London. "Together Tulane" has had readings in Los Angeles, Florida and New York. More recent works include "Bizet's Locket" (winner of the Paul Green and Riverside Stage Awards and "The Czar of Nothingness", produced at The Mill Mountain Theatre and presented in Los Angeles with Ed Asner and Thora Birch. IT was recently presented at the John Drew Theatre in East Hampton starring Theodore Bikel and Kathleen Early. His published one-act, "Six Inch Adjustable" was a winner of the Samuel French Short Play Festival. His A Plague of Little Miracles is was finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville One Act Festival. "Tea Among the Tamaracks" was a finalist in the Samuel French Short Play Contest of 2003. Shortly After Takeoff recently recived the Christopher Brian Wolk Award carrying a $1,000.00 prize. His theatrically released, award-winning full-length documentary "Unforgotten: Willowbrook 25 Years Later" opened to excellent reviews both in LA and New York. He also wrote a documentary for Showtime about the Peabody award-winning NPR series "Our America" which detailed life in the Ida B. Wills Chicago housing project. He is the author of a novel entitled Swamp, has scripted a teleplay for Murphy Brown, penned two screenplays and written numerous magazine articles for Cosmopolitan, GQ and Playboy. In the corporate field, Mr. Warmflash has written for accounts such as Sony, IBM, Kodak, BMW, Avon, Seagrams, Lifetime TV, the USPS, and NCR among others. Now heading into its tenth year, Mr. Warmflash is the artistic director of The Harbor Theatre, a non-profit collective of 7 playwrights and 30 actors and directors. (www.harbortheatre.org) He is a member of the Dramatist Guild.