Stefanie Zadravec

Resident Playwright

2011 -- 2018

Stefanie Zadravec is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a 2012-2013 Playwright Fellow at The Lark Play Development Center. Her work has been developed at The Women's Project, Play Penn, and The Kennedy Center among others. Honey Brown Eyes (Theater J,D.C.; Working Theater, NYC) received the 2009 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play and was published in American Theatre magazine. The Electric Baby(Two River Theater Co.) received Women in Arts and Media's Collaboration Award. Save Me (The Barrow Group) received the Baltimore Playwrights Festival Award for Outstanding New Play as well as the Phoenix Theatre's National Playwriting Award. Collaborative work includes:We Play For The Gods (The Women's Project), The Fear Project (The Barrow Group) 167 Tongues (Theatre 167), and You Are Now The Owner of This Suitcase (Theatre 167). Grants and residencies include: The Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, Sewanee Writers Conference Fellowship, NYSCA artist grant, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation Writing Award. She teaches screenwriting and playwriting at Primary Stages ESPA school. Stefanie is an alumnus of The Women's Project Lab and is working on commissions for The Working Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Epic Theatre Ensemble.

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Full Stage USA
Full Stage USA
Full Stage USA is forging new partnerships with five producing theatres or networks of producing theatres across the country. Each partnership is designed to commission a writer to create a new script; provide one to two years of writer-driven support and Lab work at New Dramatists; culminate in a full production staged with the partner theatre; and support future productions and the play's continued life. The partners are Cornerstone Theater Company, the National New Play Network, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Rep, and a network of alternative theatres in Austin. Each project is funded through a lead grant from the Andew W. Mellon Foundation.
Pen & Swill
Pen & Swill
Pen & Swill is a catch-all phrase for events designed to stimulate discussion among the resident playwright company on artistic and professional issues. Some are private-just for resident writers-most are open to the public, and they almost always include drinks and snacks.
Writers' Executive Committee
Writers' Executive Committee
The Writers' Executive Committee is a voluntary grouping of resident playwrights who meet throughout the year to discuss and make decisions concerning the work of New Dramatists and to help guide the organization.

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November 2, 2012