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Paula Cizmar
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A selected look at: Film-TV Produced Plays Awards New Plays Other Film-TV (selected list)
AMERICAN FAMILY. Staff writer. Season 2. Staff writer. Aired: Spring 2004. PBS/KCET/Fox/El Norte Productions. Season 1 episodes: "La Estrella" and "La Casa." PBS/KCET/Fox/El Norte Productions. In association with Greenblatt/Janollari. Gregory Nava and Barbara Martinez Jitner, executive producers. Aired 2002. Now available on DVD. THREE LADIES. Screenplay. Reading:
Writers Guild of America Employment Access Department
Project in
association with SAG and AFTRA.
At
the WGAw. January 2002. THE VOYAGE OF THE MIMI. Staff writer. (With Douglas Gower, John Greisemer, Dick Hendrick) Bank Street Children's
Television/KNET.
Aired on PBS. JUNE RECITAL. Screenplay. Adaptation of "June Recital" by Eudora Welty. Cal SKaggs/Lumiere
Productions in
association with KERA-TV, PBS, Dallas. CLIPPERTON. Screenplay (true-life adventure). Optioned: Lake City Films, Raymond Becket, producer.
Tales of the dispossessed, the lost, and the lonely (STREET STORIES), a modern/mythic view of women and love and sexuality
in the 21st Century (VENUS IN ORANGE), plus talking dogs, hummingbirds, glimpses of the invisible people who keep the wheels
of society grinding on (BONE DRY), and coal miners battling for rights (THE DEATH OF A MINER)....See the production list below.
STAGE PLAYS (partial list of productions) The Bridge, a portrait of Marina Pisklakova-Parker by
Paula Cizmar, in JOURNEYS - a series of monologues about courageous women doing the dangerous work of fighting for
human rights - by Carol K. Mack, Susan Yankowitz, Catherine Filloux, Anna Deavere Smith, Ruth Margraff, Gail Kriegel, and
Paula Cizmar, directed by Evan Yionoulis. Production: October 2008. La MaMa e.t.c., New York City.
Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. BONE DRY (AKA The Copy Editor
Murders), directed by Bain Boehlke.
Produced: September - October, 2005. The Jungle Theater, Minneapolis, MN. VENUS
IN ORANGE, a performance piece written with Laura Shamas.
Produced: June - July 2005, Victory Theatre Center, Burbank. Also: Cypress College, November 2004. BOODABOY,
directed by Tara Karsian. Produced: The Echo One-Acts. Echo@The Elephant Asylum. June 2003. STREET
STORIES, directed by Jon Rivera.
Playwrights Arena 10th Anniversary Season. Los Angeles Theatre Center.
Artistic Director: Jon Rivera. World Premiere opened May 2002.
Winner: Two Ovation Awards.
CANDY & SHELLEY GO TO THE DESERT (published by Dramatists Play
Service) Produced: Women's Project/American Place Theatre, New York, NY, directed by Carey Perloff. Also: Gorilla Tango; Williamstown
Contemporary Works IV at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, Mass.; Old Red Lion Theatre, London; Cubiculo, New York
City; The Warehouse, London; Theatre West, Los Angeles; Smith College Theatre, Northhampton, Mass.; Moab Theatre Center, Moab,
Utah; Theatre Seahorse, Chicago; The Furies, Portland, Oregon; Actors Playground, New York City (and many others).
STILL LIFE WITH PARROT & MONKEY, directed by Steve Tietsort. Workshop: 2100 Square Feet, Los Angeles, December 2001.
Produced: Scene Dock Theatre, USC School of Theatre, October 2001.
GHOST DANCE ON MULHOLLAND, directed by Diane Rodriguez. Produced:
Circle Rising Festival of New Plays, Zephyr Theatre, Los Angeles.
THE DEATH OF A MINER (published by Samuel French). Produced: Portland
Stage Company, Portland, Maine, directed by Barbara Rosoff; also, Women's Project/American Place Theatre, New York City; San
Diego Repertory; Brass Tacks, Minneapolis; Burbage Theatre, Los Angeles (and others).
PALM SUNDAY, directed by Veronica Brady. Produced: Passage Theatre
Company, Trenton, NJ. Workshop: Sundance Playwights Lab, Sundance, Utah.
THE LEGEND OF THE ICE BIRDS (children's play) Produced: Portland
Stage Company, Portland, Maine. Plus: Tour of New England.
CAFE ROYALE, directed by Carolyn Levy. Produced: Center Stage, Minneapolis.
MADONNA OF THE POWDER ROOM Produced: Portland Stage Company, Portland,
Maine, directed by Barbara Rosoff; Arts Alliance Theatre, Detroit; WTP, Hennepin Center, Minneapolis.
THE GIRL ROOM (published in poet's Theatre, Ailanthus Press) Produced:
Theatre Metamorphose, Berkeley, California, directed by Alma Becker.
AL'S LUNCHETTE*STATIONERS*DRINK COCA-COLA Produced: West Coast Ensemble,
Los Angeles, directed by Pam Putsch.
SHORT PLAYS PRETTY PLACES Produced: Actors Theatre of
Louisville "Octette"; Passage Theatre Lunchtime Series, Trenton, NJ.
SLOOPY OR SAM Produced: Circle Rep West; Colony Theatre, Los Angeles.
CUPCAKES Produced: Circle Rep lab, New York; Actors Theatre of Louisville "Stages." CHALK Produced:
Playwrights in Exile, Los Angeles.
HONORS/AWARDS/COMMISSIONS National Endowment for the
Arts Grant/SEVEN/2007 National Endowment for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship Dramalogue Critics Award
for Outstanding Playwriting Susan Smith Blackburn Literary Prize, Runner Up/Special Merit
Rockefeller Foundation International Residency at Bellagio, Italy Medal of Merit, Ohio University O'Neill
National Playwrights Conference Sundance Playwrights Lab Two Ovation Awards, Street Stories Commissions:
Salt Lake Acting Company Water Project, 2006
Cypress College, 10-Character Play Commission, 2005
Echo Theatre Company Commission, 2003
Jerome Foundation Commission with WTP of Minnesota, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Short Play Commission
NEW PLAYS SEVEN, written by Paula Cizmar and six other
playwrights, a project of Many Shining Lights, Inc., in association with Vital Voices Global Partnership. Presented at: The
Culture Project's WOMEN CENTER STAGE 2008, New York City, April 13, 2008. Staged reading: Unterberg Poetry Center of the
92nd Street Y, New York City, January 2008; also Voice and Vision's ENVISION Retreat at Bard, July 2007; and New Dramatists,
February 2007. LOVE SONG FOR THE WOMAN WHOSE CHILD SHOT MY SON
Reading: Feminine Nature Series@Casa 0101 Theatre, Los Angeles.
Directed by Mary Joan Negro. April 2006. THE REAL THING (musical
based on "The Real Thing" by Henry James). Book & Lyrics by Paula Cizmar. Music by Jan Powell. Reading: The Victory
Theatre, Burbank, February 2004, and The Theatre@Boston Court, February 2004. Directed by Michael Lilly.
OTHER Paula Cizmar is also an educator, editor, story
analyst, and consultant.
Her many professional activities include: --Adjunct Professor of Playwriting, USC School of Theatre --Instructor,
Master Class in Screenwriting, UCLA Extension Writers Program --Instructor, Emeritus College, Cuesta College --Consultant,
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation --Freelance Editor/Consultant, JD Power and Associates --Freelance Story
Analyst (see the CONSULT page on this website)
and more....
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