A HOWL OF PLAYWRIGHTS

   Darrah Cloud’s play TURNING, will premiere at Centenary Stage in March 2020. SABINA, a musical adaptation of Willy Holtzman’s play, premieres at Portland Stage in May 2020. UNDERSTUDY JESUS received a workshop production at Rhinebeck Center for the Performing Arts in Fall 2018. OUR SUBURB premiered at Theater J in Washington, DC in 2014. JOAN THE GIRL OF ARC toured with Cincinnati Playhouse, 2014. Other plays produced across the U.S. include WHAT’S BUGGING GREG?, THE STICK WIFE, THE MUD ANGEL, DREAM HOUSE, BRAILLE GARDEN THE SIRENS, HEARTLAND, THE BOXCAR CHILDREN, HONOR SONG FOR CRAZY HORSE and the stage adaptation of Willa Cather’s O PIONEERS! Alum: New Dramatists, member: Honor Roll, Howl Playwrights. Graduate of the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa, and Town Supervisor of Pine Plains. 

Margie Castleman is a playwright and choreographer. She has professionally worked in London, New York, and regionally. Her career began as dancer, segued into acting, choreography, and now works as a playwright. Her three plays, CLOSING THE CHANDLERY, BLEND, WE CAN EAT LOVE, were all semi-finalists In O'Neill Theatre Conference, and LARK development. WE CAN EAT LOVE received a full Portland Stage Studio Production, March, (2019). Other credits, THE SWIM MEET, 78th Street Theatre Lab, BLEND She Writes Festival, THE BETH DAY and BOXED OFFICE, finalist 10 Minute Plays, Humana Festival, NBC daytime TV. She holds a BA in  acting, from Bard College, and a MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College (Mac Wellman, chair). She's a Lifetime member of  DRAMATISTS GUILD, and is currently developing work with HOWL Playwrights, 

Martina has been a proud member Howl Playwrights for the past five years. Her two full-length plays, PLUCKY DUCK and AMIR IN AMERICA have had readings at Howl. As an actor, Martina's TV credits include the daytime dramas AS THE WORLD TURNS and SANTA BARBARA, the series CODE RED with Lorne Greene, MISS LONELY HEARTS for PBS, MADAME X with Tuesday Weld, many TV pilots, episodic shows, commercials and industrials. Films include GHOST, THE LONGRIDERS and BLACKOUT. Martina is a member of The Dramatists Guild.

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Recent productions: The Circus Acrobat Girl  was part of New Jersey Repertory Theater's festival and also Axial Theater's Twisted Valentines Festival 2019. Miss Pudding Doesn't Work Here Anymore was featured in Axial's Twisted Valentines 2018 production.  Prior,  Miss Pudding was produced by Love Creek Productions in NYC, the North Park and Vaudeville Theater (San Diego, CA), and Hudson Valley Playwrights Festival (Rhinebeck, NY).  Alpha Jaws premiered in The Midtown Theater Festival in NYC; Warm Milk Mamas was also in Love Creek Productions, Bad Theater Festival, in NYC, and The Last Frontier Theater Conference, Alaska; Butter the Role and Food Fight were both commissioned by Half Moon Theatre in Poughkeepsie, NY.  Dear Crossing was produced by The Rosendale Theater, Know Theater,  and Axial Theater. 

DAVID SIMPATICO is a playwright, librettist and performance artist whose work has been presented at major theatres around the globe, including London’s Hammersmith Apollo, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and the New York Shakespeare Festival. Career highlights include: the stage adaptation of High School Musical (Disney Theatricals); the full length opera, The Life and Death(s) of Alan Turing (Justine Chen, composer; commissioned by American Lyric Theatre); the sung-thru music drama, The Screams of Kitty Genovese (Will Todd, composer; Edinburgh Fringe Festival); and the libretto for Pulitzer Prize-winner Aaron J. Kernis’ Garden Of Light (NY Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall, conducted by Kurt Masur). David recently earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the MountainView Writers at SNHU. He is an alumnus of the Composer Librettist Development Program at American Lyric Theater, and a graduate of Northwestern University.

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Nan Gatewood Satter’s one-act play Yalu River has been seen at the William Inge Theatre Festival, the Last Frontier Theatre Festival, the Silver Spring Stage One-Act Festival, and the Bunnell Street Arts Centre in Homer, Alaska. Her first play, The Rules of the Game, was a semi-finalist at the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Centre.

In addition to Howl, Anne is an active member of Berkshire Playwrights Lab’s writing group in Great Barrington MA. Her short plays have been presented in numerous festivals around the country with The Kiss winning best play at the Ten Minute Play Festival at the West Side Y in New York in 2018. Her full-length play, Lady Randy, was produced by WAM Theatre and performed at Shakespeare & Co in Lenox, MA in 2019. Online: www. anneundeland.com. 

Dwight E. Watson’s plays and monologues appear in several book and monologue collections including Duo!: The Best Scenes for the 21st Century and The Book of Monologues for Aspiring Actors. His creative nonfiction appears in journals including The Chronicle Review, Ars Medica, Still Point Arts Quarterly, and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. He was recently a featured writer in the popular podcast forum Read650. Professor of Theater Emeritus and Lafollette Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Wabash College, Dwight has also directed more than sixty theater productions for educational and professional theaters. Dwight now lives and works from his home in Hyde Park. A member of the Dramatists Guild, and with the support of the Howl of Playwrights, Dwight is currently developing a new full-length play, The Blacksmith’s Book.  

PATTY WINEAPPLE was a Senior Vice President/Group Executive Producer  at Grey Worldwide. She co-produced Broadway My Street!, a TV special devoted to the musical theater starring Jerry Orbach and Florence Henderson. Documentary work includes Animated Women, an Emmy winning four-part series and Independent Spirits, about the lives and work of animators, Faith and John Hubley. Before joining  A HOWL of PLAYWRIGHTS, Patty was the producing director of Half Moon Theatre for six years.