SELECTED COMPETITIONS:
Stepping Stone - Humans Remain. Winner, New Millennium Competition.
Lark Theatre (NYC) - HumanS Remain one of eight out of almost 1000 plays selected for residency.
Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition (Buffalo). Full-length winner: Harmony; one-act winner: Marching on High
Jane Chambers National Playwriting Award. Finalist: Embracing the Undertoad.
Smith Prize - Finalist: Frontier.
O'Neill - Semi-Finalist: Lola and the Planet of Glorious Diversity.
Moondance Internat'l. Film Festival (stageplay category). Winner: Choice of Pastry; The Day I Learned a Really Dirty Word. Finalist: Humans Remain; Semi-finalist: Lola and the Planet of Glorious Diversity.
Goshen Peace Play Contest 2008. Honorable Mention: Blood Sisters.
Drury Univ. One-Act Play Contest (2001). Co-winner: St. Anthony and the Appendix.
Cleveland Public Theatre New Play Contest (2001). Play Nice! One of eight winners.
Reverie Productions' Next Generation Competition. Humans Remain one of six finalists.
Reva Shiner Prize. Finalist: Frontier. The Power of Birds.
Drop Your Shorts Competition (Bloomington, IN). Roses to Plan.
TADA! Competitions for New One-Act Plays (NYC). Queen for a Day, Matilda Told Such Dreadful Lies, Marching on High, Evening Primrose in Ohio.
Pathway Productions New Play Contest (L.A.). Marching on High.
Firefly Productions Internat'l New Play Search (VT). Roses to Plan, David's Disappearance.
Perishable Theatre's Internat'l Women's Playwriting Competition (RI). Finalist: St. Anthony and the Appendix.
Kernodle Competition (Arkansas): The High Noon of Miss Grace Wren, Grannie Bird (winner). Feathers Fly (finalist).
Bailiwick Rep. First Annual Lesbian Playwriting Contest. Embracing the Undertoad.
American Theatre Coop. Semi-finalist: Embracing the Undertoad.
Harwood College. O Rumbles of Joy!
Writers Digest. Finalist: Play Nice!
MEMBERSHIPS & MISC.:
AAPEX - African-American Playwrights Exchange
Dramatists Guild (since 1989)
International Centre for Women Playwrights
Lark Underground
League of Professional Theatre Women
Manhattan Oracles
New Georges - affiliate
THAW (Theatres Against War)
Women Playwrights International, Inc.
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America
M.A. playwriting
Scripts archived at Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
PUBLISHED:
QUEEN FOR A DAY. Bakers Plays.
EVENING PRIMROSE IN OHIO. Bakers Plays.
ROSES TO PLAN. ArtAge Publications. Also selected for collection from ICWP.
A POET COULDN'T WRITE ABOUT IT. In "Singular Women: Monologues from the Internat'l Centre for Women Playwrights." JAC.
ST. ANTHONY AND THE APPENDIX. "8 Plays from Mae West Fest 8: New Theatre by Women."
TUGBOAT LOVE. Brooklyn Publishers.
GRANNIE'S DETINATION. Dramatic Pub. "Classroom Scenes and Monologues."
THE FORTIFICATION OF MISS GRACE WREN. JAC Publications and Promotions.
O RUMBLES OF JOY! JAC Publications and Promotions.
SITTING DUCK SEASON. JAC Publications and Promotions.
GLOOM, DOOM AND SOUL-CRUSHING MISERY. Slated for publication by Smith & Kraus in a "The Best Ten-Minute Plays for 3 or More Actors in 2008.
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN. To be published by Smith & Kraus in a "The Best Ten-Minute Plays..." collection in 2010.
More monologues in: "Mother/Daughter Monologues (volumes 1 + 3)" from the International Centre for Women Playwrights.
SELECTED PRODUCTIONS, WORKSHOPS, READINGS (NYC unless noted):
FULL- LENGTH PLAYS
THE POWER OF BIRDS. Premiere: Milagro Theatre (NYC-2010). Developmental residencies: Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, The Phoenix Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College. Public reading: 3Graces.
SUKI LIVINGSTON OPENS LIKE A PARACHUTE. Workshop production: Theatre for the New City. Readings: The Lark (Roundtable), Arthur Seelen Theatre (NYC).
SEARCHING FOR A NEW SUN. Premiere: Berlin. 2010.
EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD. This Woman's Work (NYC-Chashama), 2005; Bailiwick Rep. (Chicago); Mae West Fest (Seattle-workshop); New Georges (NYC-wkshop/reh.reading); Venus Theatre (Washington, D.C.).
MUSIC OF THE SPHERES. Early version, HARMONY, produced at Alleyway (Buffalo), 2001-02.
HUMANS REMAIN. Winner: SteppingStone New Millennium; Playwrights Week residency, Lark; Karamu House (Cleveland, OH); finalist Reverie Productions.
LOLA AND THE PLANET OF GLORIOUS DIVERSITY. (early, one act versions performed at Albee Last Frontier Conference (Valdez, Alaska); Stockyards (Chicago); Looking Glass (NYC).
NECESSARY GEOGRAPHY. Table read, Luna Stage (NJ); reading, Villagers Theatre.
PLAY NICE! Cleveland Public workshop; readings at New Georges, Lark, Abingdon, Resonance.
WOMEN w/o WALLS. Rehearsed readings: WonderWorks Productions, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, Villager Playhouse (NJ).
FRONTIER. Workshop reading. New Georges. NYC; Mae West Fest (Seattle). Finalist, Reva Shiner Prize.
ONE-ACT PLAYS
(listings include productions, workshops and readings - before publication if published)
BLOOD SISTERS. Productions: 3Graces, OneHeart Productions; readings: Arthur Seelen, Dramatists Guild.
BRONCO BUSTER. NJ Rep.; French Off-Off-Broadway Short Plays; Collinswood Players (Tampa); Playwrights+Actors Contemporary; Acme (MA); Paw Paw Village Players (MI); Two Trees (Vancouver). Many others.
BUDFUD129ZK. Brand new.
CUTIE PIE AND THE QUEEN. Native Aliens (NYC).
DAVID'S DISAPPEARANCE. Trilogy (Firefly-VT); New Georges; LIVE; Stormy Weather Players (Cornwall, NY); HERE (NYC).
DEJA VU ALL OVER AGAIN. NJ Rep., Seventh Inning Stretch. Published, Smith + Kraus.
ESCAPE IN A WHITE TOYOTA. Mid-America Theatre Conference.
EVENING PRIMROSE IN OHIO. TADA! Subsequently performed throughout the U.S. and abroad.
FEATHERS FLY. Kenneth & Company reading. Kernodle finalist.
THE FORTIFICATION OF MISS GRACE WREN. Many productions and awards, including: Polaris North; Barefoot Readers (San Mateo, CA); Marblehead Little Theatre (MA).
GLOOM, DOOM AND SOUL-CRUSHING MISERY. Groove Mama, Ink. Optioned by Smith + Kraus.
HIGH NOON OF MISS GRACE WREN. Turnip Festival; Teachers Theatre (Madison, NJ); Bloomington Playwrights Project (IN).
SYLVIA AND JACKIE. New.
FRONTIER. Mae West Fest (Seattle). Reading: New Georges.
LIFE 101. Lakeridge Academy (OH)., NJ Rep., Mid-America Theatre Conference.
LISTEN! THE RIVER. Emerging Artists Theatre (NYC); ManhattanTheatreSource's Estrogenius Sola Voce.
THE LOOP TURNOVER FLIP. HERE Livingroom Series (Lincoln Center Directors' Lab).
MACARONI WITHOUT CHEESE. NJ Dramatists/Waterfront Ensemble.
MATILDA TOLD SUCH DREADFUL LIES. Expanded Arts; TADA!
MANHATTAN ZIP. Miranda Theatre commission.
MARCHING ON HIGH. Toronto Fringe; Alleyway (Buffalo); Pathway (L.A.); Expanded Arts; TADA!; Love Creek.
NOT ANONYMOUS. Axial Theatre (HERE, NYC).
O RUMBLES OF JOY! Artists of Tomorrow (NYC/Six Figures Theatre); Harwood College.
PURITY AND THE PRINCE. Estrogenius (ManhattanTheatreSource); Teachers Theatre of NJ., Lakeridge Academy (OH), Gene Frankel Theatre (NYC), Inspirato Festival (Toronto).
QUEEN FOR A DAY. TADA! Subsequently performed throughout the U.S. and abroad.
ROSES TO PLAN. Many awards and productions, including: Bloomington Playwrights Project (IN); Pulse/Opal Series; Expanded Arts, Trilogy (Firefly Prod., VT); HeR-RAH Festival (Sante Fe); Teachers Theatre (Madison, NJ-reading).
SAINT ANTHONY AND THE APPENDIX. Unity Fest (Bank Street, NYC); Polaris North; Illustrious (NY); Mae West (Seattle).
SAVE THE TURKEY! NJ Rep.; Teachers Theatre of NJ.
SEDUCING RAMONA. Many productions including: Kennedy Center; Chashama Theatre (NYC);
Montgomery (PA); Paw Paw Players (MI); Texas A&M University, Lakeridge Academy (OH).
SITTING DUCK SEASON. ManhattanTheatreSource; Polaris; Teachers Theatre of NJ; Acme (MA).
SNUG HARBOR. Brand new.
SQUEEZING PAPAYAS. Polaris North; Senior Theatre Festival (OH); Teachers Theatre of NJ.
STAND STRONG, MISS WREN (long monologue). Groove Mama, Gene Frankel Theatre.
TAKE A LOAD OFF. (Lark Underground Writers) At-Hand Theatre Company (NYC); Wildflower (IL).
THE GREAT ALL-DOMINICAN CHAMPIONSHIP PLAYOFF GAME. Teatro del Pueblo (MN).
THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW. Groove Mama Ink (NYC).
TUGBOAT LOVE. Word-of-Mouth (NYC); Ground Zero (Dallas).
WHITE LIGHT. MadLab (Ohio Fringe Festival).
ROBIN RICE LICHTIG
New York, NY - dramamama@nyc.rr.com
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ROBIN RICE LICHTIG is the author of over 40 plays, seen from Florida to Alaska, Amsterdam to South Africa to Mongolia.
PUBLISHERS INCLUDE: Bakers Plays, Dramatic Publishing, Smith & Kraus, Brooklyn Publishers, JAC Publishing and Promotions, ArtAge, Mae West Fest, and ManhattanTheatreSource.
WRAP-UP ON FULL-LENGTH PLAYS: SEARCHING FOR A NEW SUN will premiere in Berlin in August, 2010. THE POWER OF BIRDS will premiere in New York (3Graces production) in February, 2010. SUKI LIVINGSTON OPENS LIKE A PARACHUTE will be presented at Theatre for the New City in New York on March 15, 2010. HUMANS REMAIN won the 2007 New Millennium competition. Previously, HUMANS REMAIN was one of eight plays chosen from almost 1,000 internationally for the Lark Theatre's 2003 playwrights week residency in New York and was one of six finalists in Reverie Theatre;s 2006 Next Generation competition. HUMANS REMAIN received the Joyce Whitley Award and was read at Karamu House in Cleveland. An early version of MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, then titled HARMONY, premiered at Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo as winner of their Maxim Mazumdar International Competition. EMBRACING THE UNDERTOAD, produced in New York in 2005, was a 2004 Jane Chambers Award finalist. A one-act version of this play premiered at Bailiwick Rep. in Chicago as winner of the Lesbian Theatre International Competition. HUMANS REMAIN and LOLA AND THE PLANET OF GLORIOUS DIVERSITY are Moondance International Film Festival finalists. LOLA was an O'Neill finalist. PLAY NICE! was chosen for a residency at the Cleveland Public Theatre and has been optioned by an agent in Bulgaria.
LISTEN! THE RIVER and THE LITTLE STORE, both performance monologues, are 2006 Moondance winners.
NEW YORK PRODUCERS include: New Georges, 3 Graces, Six Figures, Fourth Unity, Miranda, Chashama, HERE, Lincoln Center Directors' Lab, TADA!, This Woman's Work Theatre Company, ManhattanTheatreSource, Pulse, The Drilling Company, One Heart Productions.
OTHER PRODUCERS include: New Jersey Rep., Karamu House, Bloomington Playwrights (Indiana), BareBones (North Carolina), Alleyway (Buffalo), Stockyards (Chicago), Two Trees (Vancouver), MadLab (Columbus Fringe Festival), Toronto Fringe Festival, Paw Paw Players (Michigan), Axial Theatre Company (New York).
RESIDENCIES:
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, Topanga Canyon, CA.
Invited, individual, developmental residency with THE POWER OF BIRDS.The Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, AZ.
Invited, individual, developmental residency with THE POWER OF BIRDS.The Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, OH.
Invited developmental residency with PLAY NICE! 