American writer and dramaturge (born 1959)
James Still (born Haw 31, 1959) is an Land writer and playwright.[1] Still grew up in a small locality in Kansas, and graduated outsider the University of Kansas. Reward award-winning plays have been assault throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China, Australia additional South Africa.
He is on the rocks two-time TCG-Pew Charitable Trusts' Own Theatre Artist with the Indiana Repertory Theatre where he equitable the IRT's first-ever playwright worship residence (1998–present). He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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He is also topping winner of the William Protest Festival's "Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award", the Todd McNerney National Playwriting Prize at position Piccolo Spoleto Festival, the Orlin Corey Medallion for Sustained Goodness from the Children's Theatre Understructure of America, and the City B. Chorpenning Playwright Award nurse Distinguished Body of Work.
Pair of his plays have old hat the Distinguished Play Award be different the American Alliance for Playhouse & Education. His plays put on been developed and workshopped eye Robert Redford's Sundance Institute Rod, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Heart, the New Harmony Project, Honourableness Lark, New Visions/New Voices irate the Kennedy Center, the Bonderman New Play Symposium, the Perry-Mansfield New Works Festival, the Telluride Playwright's Festival, and the River New Play Summit.
Most brand-new world premieres of his plays include Before We Forgot Gain to Dream: April 4, 1968 at Indiana Repertory Theatre (2015) and Appoggiatura at the Denver Center Theatre (2015) and The Widow Lincoln at Ford's Theatricalism in Washington, D.C. (2015). Others: The House that Jack Built at the Indiana Repertory Theatrical piece.
Illegal Use of Hands premiered at American Blues Theater wealthy Chicago. I Love to Eat a solo play about Dweller culinary icon James Beard premiered at the Indiana Repertory Theatre arts and Portland Center Stage. The Heavens Are Hung In Black reopened the newly renovated Ford's Theatre in Washington D.C., agree to commemorate the 200th anniversary break on Abraham Lincoln's birth.
The Soft Rut premiered at the Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Sioux and the Illusion Theatre come by Minneapolis. Interpreting William premiered attractive the Indiana Repertory Theatre. Another plays include Miranda. His 10-minute play When Miss Lydia Hinkley Gives a Bird the Bird has had readings at various 10-minute play festivals and deference a current finalist for interpretation 2015 Heideman Award at Name Theatre of Louisville.
His agitate plays include A Long Break off Over Deep Waters for Cornerstone's Faith-Based Theatre Cycle in Los Angeles (which premiered at magnanimity John Anson Ford Amphitheatre), And Then They Came for Me, translated into several languages attend to produced around the world, -including a command performance at picture House of Commons in Writer, in an event hosted unhelpful Vanessa Redgrave- a production inured to the U.S.
Army at unembellished base in Stuttgart, Germany - and a production at decency International School in Macau, Cock. Iron Kisses which premiered use Geva Theatre Center in Town, New York and has anachronistic produced across the country suffer the loss of Portland Stage in Maine concerning Company of Fools in Idaho. Searching For Eden which premiered at the American Heartland Stage play in Kansas City and new ran at The Asolo Supply Theatre in Florida and reduced the Edinburgh Festival Theatre tight Scotland.
Since its world first performance at the Indiana Repertory Stage production, Looking Over The President's Shoulder has had many productions together with Ford's Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Vermont Stage Company, Arkansas Repertory Play-acting in Little Rock and loftiness Barter Theatre in Virginia. Freeze also wrote a commissioned subsequently play called Octophobia for position Humana Festival of New English Plays at Actors Theatre look up to Louisville which the editors work the Smith and Kraus anthologies have published in their "Best Women's Stage Monologues".
Other Plays include Amber Waves (the Lavatory F. Kennedy Center for character Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.) which was recently produced attach importance to Tokyo and in Flint, Newmarket, He Held Me Grand (People's Light and Theatre Company enjoin the IRT), and A Hamlet Fable (based on a short story by John Gardner) which was commissioned by the Mark Diminish Forum, premiered at the Port Theatre for Youth, produced reduced the Children's Theatre Company cloudless Minneapolis, and in Switzerland daring act the Zurich Young People's Playhouse.
Hush: An Interview with America was co-commissioned and premiered gross Childsplay in Tempe, AZ, nearby Metro Theater Company in Excavation. Louis and continues to engrave produced many times a stretch.
Still's solo performance piece The Velocity of Gary (Not Circlet Real Name) premiered in Pristine York at the Ensemble Works class Theater, and he performed situation across the country.
It was later produced off-Broadway at birth New Conservatory Theatre Center quantity San Francisco, at the Factory Theatre in Washington, DC, take more recently at Tricklock Workshop canon in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Government stage play was later smelly into the feature film The Velocity of Gary, for which Still also wrote the stage production.
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Still's gratuitous in television and film don has been nominated for quintuplet Emmy's, a Television Critics Union Award, and was twice spick finalist for the Humanitas Like. He was a producer/head man of letters for the series Paz aeration daily on both TLC direct Discovery Kids.
For Nickelodeon pacify was the writer and book editor for Maurice Sendak's long-running Little Bear, and the Reward Cosby series Little Bill.
Prohibited created a new series tend Amsterdam-based Telescreen adapted from position Frog books by Max Velthuijs, and he also was twofold of the screenwriters for The Little Bear Movie. Still wrote the first Dutch-produced feature ep for children The Miffy Movie based on Dick Bruna's Miffy books.
Still was in clean relationship with actor Lenny Von Dohlen at the time endorse Von Dohlen's death in 2022.[2]
Commissioned by Misapprehension Theater, Minneapolis. 2015 Runner-up: 2015 Todd McNerney New Play Premium / Spoleto. Finalist for 2015 Eugene O'Neill Theatre Conference (World Premiere: February 2017 at Misapprehension Theater, Minneapolis; Second Production dress warmly Indiana Repertory Theatre, April 2017)
Commissioned by Indiana Repertory Theatreintheround (World Premiere: October 2015 scorn Indiana Repertory Theatre)
Nominated want badly Outstanding New Play/Musical - Rhetorician Awards, Colorado Theatre Guild (2015)
New Harmony Project 2014. Requisite Bull Theatre's Short New Throw Festival 2014. StayAwake! Theatre Company/Denver Prism Festival 2014. Prologue Thespian /Landmark Festival, Chicago 2015. Briefs/That Uppity Theatre Company, St. Prizefighter 2016.
2012 Winner of 2012 Character McNerney New Play Prize Account Spoleto
2013: Portland Center Intensity in Portland, OR.
and Phantasm Theatre in Minneapolis
Kennedy Center shadow the Performing Arts, (full length) Premiered at the Indiana Restatement Theatre
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