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Overnighters Monologues

Dawson Moore, Playwright
PO Box 3505; Valdez AK 99686-3505
Contact Information

Education

BA in Theatre from the University of Alaska Anchorage
8-year participant in the Last Frontier Theatre Conference

POSITIONS HELD:

Play reading respondent and teacher
Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region
07/2007
Coordinator,
Last Frontier Theatre Conference, PWSCC
3/03 - present
www.pwscc.edu
Responding Panelist, Short Play Lab
Last Frontier Theatre Conference
6/02 & 6/03
Theatre Instructor: Play Lab Readings, Acting I, Intro to Directing, Intro to Playwriting
PWSCC
Teach playwriting, acting, and directing as coordinator of an AAS degree in theatre, 5/02 - present.
Playwriting Instructor
Playwrights' Center of San Francisco
9/01 - 12/01; 9/02 - 12/02
www.playwrightscentersf.org
Bookseller,
Limelight Theatre and Film Bookstore
10/01 - 03/03
www.limelightbooks.com
Co-Artistic Director,
Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company
06/01 - 12/03
www.threewisemonkeys.org
Literary Manager,
Eureka Theatre
2/00 - 6/02
www.eurekatheatre.org
Coordinator,
Venue 9's From the Page to the Stage Play Reading Series
8/99 - 2/00
www.ftloose.org
Story Analyst,
Skylark Films
10/97 - 6/98
1123 Pacific St., Ste G
Santa Monica, CA 90405-1525

Production History of Original Works

LibidOFF
Apr 03 6-week run co-produced by 3WM & UTC (San Francisco)
May 02 4-week Off-Broadway run at 78th St. Studios
Mar 01 Staged Reading at Eureka Theatre (San Francisco)
Nov 00 2-week Off-Broadway premiere at the Expanded Arts Theatre
Jun 00 Staged reading at the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco
Aug 99 Workshop production with Professional Actors' Council (Los Angeles)
Jun 99 Staged reading at Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab

Bile in the Afterlife
Mar 05 2-week run at Prince William Sound Community College
Apr 04 1-week run at Bradley University (Peoria, Illinois)
June 03 Part of NVTC One-Act Festival; prod. by Reston Community Players
May 03 1-week run at Las Positas College
Apr 03 3 1-week runs produced by Teatro del Naville in Italy
Jan 02 1-week run in Three Wise Monkeys' BOA Festival @ Eureka Theatre, (SF)
Sep 00 Staged reading by Theatre Artists' Conspiracy (San Francisco)
Aug 00 3-week premiere run by Kokopelli Productions (Anchorage, AK)
Aug 98 Staged reading at Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab

Domestic Companion
Apr 06 Presented as part of the Bellingham Theatre Guild's One-Act Festival, produced by Nearly Stellar Entertainment
Dec 03 Selected as part of Theatre-Studio, Inc's Festival (NYC)
July 00 Festival performance by the Reston Community Players
Dec 97 One-week run at University of Puget Sound
Mar 97 Equity showcase performance by Love Creek Productions
Apr 95 One-week run on University of Alaska Anchorage 2nd Stage

The Tie
Jan 01 Part of the Sheherazade 2001, Playwrights' Center of San Francisco
Sep 00 Produced as part of the "Full Circle Celebration" by Circle East, NYC
Sep 99 Workshop production at the John Drew Theatre, East Hampton, NYC

Skid Marks (co-written with Schatzie Schaefers)
Aug 06 Staged reading in 3WM's Short Leaps Marathon
Sep 04 Two-week run at Eccentric Theatre Company as part of Fourplay

The Making of Eye Contact
Apr 99 Staged reading at Venue 9 (San Francisco)
Dec 96 Two-week run at Eccentric Theatre Company (Anchorage)
Apr 94 One show as part of the Toast "Crust" Festival (Anchorage)
Oct 93 One-week run on University of Alaska Anchorage 2nd Stage

Sand & Granite On Liberty
Aug 00 Staged reading at the Stark Raving Theatre (Portland, OR)
Oct 94 One-week run on University of Alaska Anchorage 2nd Stage

Happy Loving Couples are a Thing of the Past
Aug 07 Staged reading in 3WM's Short Leaps Marathon
Apr 04 1-week run with Fairbanks Drama Association as part of 8x10 Festival
July 01 Staged reading at the NYSSA program in New York
June 01 Staged Reading at the Last Frontier Ten-Minute Play Lab

Secret Stuffing
Mar 02 4-week run in Unidentified Theatre Company One-Act Marathon
May 00 Commissioned SF performance with Rough Theatre's Daytrippers

In A Red Sea
Aug 06 Performed as a part of Barestage Theatre's Six @ Eight Festival (Red Bluff)
June 06 Performed at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference by TBA Theatre Co.
Apr 04 Finalist in the Turnip Theatre 15-Minute Play Festival (NYC)
June 02 Staged Reading at Last Frontier Theatre Conference
Sept 01 Commissioned for SF Fringe Festival for Rough Theatre's Daytrippers

Laundry Day
Sept 01 Commissioned for Best of Fringe Festival for Rough Theatre

Love's Lumberings Remembered
Jan 02 Part of the Sheherazade 2002, Playwrights' Center of San Francisco

Oh, Nancy!
Mar 07 1-week run in Two Spoons Theatre Co.'s Teaspoon Festival 2007
Sept 01 3-week run with Theatre Artists' Conspiracy's Café Project

Burning
Jun 05 Presented as a part of Theatre Limina's Summer Shorts Festival (St. Paul MN)
Apr 04 4-week run as part of Alleyway Theatre's Buffalo Quickies (Buffalo NY)
Aug 03 6-week run as part of Impact Theatre's Impact Briefs V: Shock & Awe
Jul 03 Staged reading in 3WM's Short Leaps Marathon

Diarrhea
Apr 05 Readings in Rhode Island & Maryland with Java Theatre
Mar 05 1-week run as a part of the 3rd Annual DNA Festival of Very Very Very Short Plays and Film

The Fears of Harold Shivvers
Feb 07 One-weekend run in NYC in the Impact Theatre Winter One-Act Festival
May 05 One-weekend run at Prince William Sound Community College
Jan 05 Performed as a part of Alaska Overnighters

The War of Virginia and Alabama
Mar 05 Staged reading as part of Mid-America Theatre Conference Playwriting Symposium's Ten-Minute Play Showcase.
Aug 04 Staged reading in 3WM's Short Leaps Marathon
Dec 03 Performed as a part of Alaska Overnighters

Alyson and the Great Bagel Mistake
Aug 07 Performed as a part of Alaska Overnighters

Living With the Savage
May 05 1-week run produced by Teatro del Naville's Festival in Italy
Mar 05 2-week run at Prince William Sound Community College
Jul 03 6-week run in Isis Arts Collective's Summer Shorts (SF)
Mar 03 1-week run in Three Wise Monkeys' BOA Festival @ Eureka Theatre, (SF)

Self-Inflicted
Aug 05 Staged reading in 3WM's Short Leaps Marathon

are you bored?
Sept 05 Performed as part of the Don't Blink One-Page Play Marathon

To Dine or Not To Dine
Apr 06 1-week run with Fairbanks Drama Association as part of 8x10 Festival

This Really is the End
Aug 06 Performed as a part of Alaska Overnighters

The Note Left By The Man
Dec 06 Performed as part of the Second Don't Blink One-Page Marathon

Writing Awards Received

2007 Burning selected as the winner of Write Angle's Ten-Minute Play Award (www.writeangle.org)
2005 The Fears of Harold Shivvers named Best New Play in Anchorage in 2005 by critic Catherine Stadem on Stage Talk.
2004 In a Red Sea Honorable Mention in Turnip 15-Minute Play Festival (production receives Best Director and Honorable Mention Best Actor)
2002 The Peach Semi-Finalist in Lamia Ink! One-Page Play Competition
2002 The Bus Finalist in Lamia Ink! One-Page Play Competition
2002 In a Red Sea Audience Choice Award at Last Frontier Play Lab
1999 Bile in the Afterlife finalist in the 1999 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival One-Act Play Competition
1998 Bile in the Afterlife 5th place in the Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab
1997 Domestic Companion finalist in the Love Creek Playwrights' Festival
1996 Domestic Companion 1st runner-up in the American College Theatre Festival Playwriting Competition, Pacific Northwest Region

Publication

2007 Burning published in Crawdad.
2006 Monologue from Love's Lumberings Remembered published by Smith & Kraus in 60 Seconds to Shine: 221 One-Minute Monologues for Men
2006 Domestic Companion published Pretty Things Press' House to Half
2003 The Bus published in the Lamia Ink!
2003 Libidoff published by 3WM Press
2003 Living with the Savage published in the Bay One-Acts Festival II
2003 Bile in the Afterlife published in the Bay One-Acts Festival Anthology