ROMA GRETH
Background of free lance writing that includes advertising, short stories, articles.
Member: Dramatists Guild; Theatre Association of Pennsylvania; Mystery Plays performed: Syracuse Stage, Arthur Storch directing; Academy Theatre, Atlanta; Washington (DC) and Los Angeles Feminist theatres; women's prison and drug rehab programs with inmate participation; Second Stage, LA; ADT Theatre in LA with Dorothy Lyman directing. In NYC at: Playwrights Horizons; Shelter West; Theater at St. Clement's; Playwrights Preview Productions with Frances Hill directing. One act touring NYC public libraries with playwright directing. One act historical play touring Philadelphia area, '90. CLEAN MURDER and DUTCH BLUE premiering in Philadelphia area playhouse, '93 & '94.
Plays read: Aspen Playwrights Conference; O'Neill Theatre Conference; Erie (PA) Playwrights Festival; winner of The Scene award (NYC) and publication of play. The University of Miami Playwrights Award. Bicentennial Playwriting award, Washington Area Feminist Theatre; WINDFALL APPLES published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc, with numerous productions. Publication in OOB anthologies. Staged reading sponsored by the State Theatre of Easton, PA, '92. Emerging Playwrights Award of Playwrights Preview Productions for ON SUMMER DAYS, '92. Religious one act touring PA & NJ, '90, '91, '92. Short videos of HALFWAY and WORMS, LA `91 & `92. CURTAIN CALL and HALFWAY in the collection, FACING FORWARD, published by Broadway Play Publishing Inc.
Recipient of three PA Council On The Arts grants, '81, '84, '91.
Published mystery novels with Hana Shaner protagonist, NOW YOU DON'T, '88, PLAIN MURDER, '89. Also published in Paris, Budapest and Moscow. Available in large print edition and in BiblioBytes Books On Computer. Hana Shaner short story included in Delaware Valley Sisters In Crime anthology, '94 & '97. Anthology of crime stories, Scherz Publishing, Munich, Germany, '97. Staged reading of CLEAN MURDER, Mid-Atlantic Mystery Conference, '97.
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