Suzanne was looking for a creative outlet while babysitting a coffee farm on the big island of Hawaii. Deciding to write she wrote her first play, “Cowboy” as an entry to the 14th annual Original Play Festival. It was selected as one of five winning plays. The thrill of seeing an audience laughing and responding to her wit, words and off-beat characters proved seductive and playwriting blossomed into a passion.

Recently her one act play, “Tuna and Tea” was selected for production at the Four Play Festival in Seattle in June. Her absurdist play, “If the Shoe Fits” was developed and performed as part of Freehold Theatre New Play Lab Series and her short play “First Kiss” has been selected for staged readings by Seattle Cold Readers.

Suzanne has a Masters Degree in Education and frequently uses her writing skills to build interest in subjects and creatively engage her students. In addition she is an active member of the Seattle Playwrights Studio and The Arsonist playwriting group. Suzanne enjoys writing music, playing her ukulele and writing poetry. She is a visual artist working in several mediums and her latest project is learning to speak Spanish.

The Raspberry
A nursing home resident learns to use her Blackberry.

S.D. Graubert is a playwright and actress.

Selected plays/festivals include: Military 4Play (Hangar Theatre); Johnny’s Girl (Festival of New Plays, Prop Thtr, Chicago); The Adelaide Chronicles (nominated for Cherry Lane mentor program, semi-finalist Mill Mountain Theatre); G.R.A.P.E.H.E.A.D.S (Last Frontier Theatre Conference, TDC; WBAI Radio: THAW); Love Dust (Sun Dog Theatre); The Vestibule (Festival of One Acts, Neighborhood Playhouse); Last Word (TDC/78th St Theatre Lab); St Croix (Clubbed Thumb 50 States pageant); Ms. Santos Dream after Reading Medea (TDC);Coffee &Prozac (Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellowship waitlist); The Hundred Years’ War (TDC); The Secret of Dogs (Radio); King of the World, (Alcoholic Fringe, Alaska) A Few Good Eggs (Words of Choice) Penny Black (Invited to Great Plains; finalist Women at Plays(4); semi-finalist, Heartland Theatre); Penelope (Winner, Asphalt Jungle Shorts; Winner, Astor St Opry; Winner JAC Publishing Competition; Winner, Vagabond) Magnolia Day (Source Festival, DC; Spring Writes; Mind-the-Gap Productions); Gerry (TDC); A Few Good Eggs (Words of Choice) Ginto & May (Semi-finalist, Shorter & Sweeter Festival) The Millhouse Contract (semi-finalist, Lakeshore 5th Annual 10 Minute Play Contest) Dick Spacey and the Space Detectives (OMB Commission); The Troglodytes (Reverie Productions’ WetInk Festival; Finalist, Lark Playwrights’ Week; represented by United Agents, London) www.sherigraubert.info.

Parental Consent
A mother and daughter discuss the war and the mother’s friend who is upset that her nephew has enlisted.

Nina Mansfield’s plays No Epilogue, Crash Bound and Missed Exit have had multiple productions and are published by One Act Play Depot. Her fiction has been published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Chick Lit Review. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and NYU, and she has studied acting and directing at the Moscow Art Theatre. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators, Sisters in Crime and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Please visit her at www.ninamansfield.com.

Bona Fide
A marriage for convenience, i.e., citizenship for an Iranian male, takes a surprise twist.

Connie Schindewolf, an award-winning playwright, holds a BSE in Theatre Education from Truman State University and an MFA from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. After teaching drama—including playwriting—for 25 years in the St. Louis area, she moved to Bradenton, Florida where she has more time to write. Tide Line of July 15th was performed in 2007 by Sarasota’s Theatre Odyssey, and in the last three years she has had short plays performed in Florida, Alabama, New York, New Jersey, and Brisbane, Australia. When Connie is not writing plays, she’s saving sea turtles and getting inspiration from her quirky husband, Ray, and her snarky, college-aged daughter, Jamie. Connie is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is thrilled to be a part of this festival!

The Silence
A women who has just given birth is visited by her demons who try to convince her she is an unfit mother.

Dale Griffiths Stamos is a playwright whose work has been produced and published in the United States and abroad. She received the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville for her ten-minute play The Unintended Video, which was subsequently published by Samuel French and which has been produced worldwide. She won the Jewel Box Theatre's Original Playwrighting Competition for her full-length drama Dialectics of the Heart, produced in 2006 at Edgemar Center for the Arts, where it starred three time Emmy-nominated actress, Sharon Lawrence. Her play, Blue Jay Singing in the Dead of Night, was featured as part of the five play line-up of the Rogue's Gallery II Reading Series at Rogue Machine Theatre in Los Angeles in 2008. Her newest full-length, One White Crow, is slated to appear in an L.A. production in 2011. Dale was also nominated for an Emmy for her shared story credit on the CBS special Words Up! For various other one act plays and short works, she was named finalist for the Heideman Award; alternate for The Samuel French Festival; and fourth place winner for the West Coast Ten-Minute Playwriting Festival.

Amanda Split
Body and mind of women played by 2 people argue over dating a man.

TAMMY RYAN’s plays have been produced across the country and developed at The New Harmony Project, Premiere Stages, Philadelphia Theater Company, City Theater, The Bonderman and the Lark. Honors include the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Creative Achievement Award, The Heinz Endowment’s Creative Heights Grant, and AATE’s Distinguished Play Award for The Music Lesson. Her play, Lost Boy Found in Whole Foods was presented at the National New Play Network’s 2009 National Showcase of Plays. Ryan is currently working on a commission for International Culture Lab in collaboration with Turkish playwright Zeynep Kacar, entitled She to be performed in New York and Istanbul in 2011. For more information go to www.tammyryan.net.

Dry Cleaning the Soul
A middle-aged woman goes to confession only to find out the priest is a young man who grew up with her children.