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The New American Playwrights Project
Learn a little more about the playwrights visiting the Festival this summer with their new plays.

John Minigan

Breaking the Shakespeare Code

John Minigan’s plays have been produced by the Orlando Shakespeare Festival; by the Circle Repertory Company, the Quaigh Theatre, the Gran Mal Theatre, and Shelter West in New York City; and by various companies throughout the United States. His scripts have earned grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, won the Playwright’s Collaborative Award and Dodd Drama Prize, been selected for the Double Image Best of Off-Off Broadway Festival, and nominated for the Weissberger Award. He currently teaches theatre and Shakespeare in greater Boston. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Dan Trujillo

Early Poe

Dan Trujillo is a 2006-07 Dramatists Guild Fellow. Recent productions of his plays include Jingle Spree at Coho Productions in Portland, Oregon and a workshop of his freestyle verse play Talk of the Walk-Up at manhattantheatresource in New York City, His play The Dog was recently published in the Oregon Literary Review. He has been honored with the Harry Kondoleon Graduate Award in Playwriting and won the American College Theatre Festival Region 2 competition for Early Poe. Other plays include Conference with the Bull, Heavens Distant Shore, Angry Young Man, and Toy Planet.

Richard A. Kalinoski

The Thousand Pound Marriage

Richard Kalinoski has been a director and faculty member of the theatre department at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh for the past nine years. He is a veteran of the National Playwrights Conference and the Humana Festival of the Actors Theatre of Louisville. His play, Beast on the Moon, was awarded the Prixe Moliere in Paris in 2001 and ran for 120 performances in New York in the summer of 2005. In January 2006, Kalinoski was awarded the Movses Khorenatsi Medal by the Republic of Armenia for his contribution to arts and culture of Armenia.