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A member of ASCAP and The Dramatists Guild, Eisenstein is a drama critic
for the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Aisle Say: The Internet Magazine of
Stage Reviews and Opinion, and the playwriting columnist for Ohio Writer.
She is currently a resident writer in the Playwrights' Unit at the
Cleveland Play House. Between 1983-1994 she was Resident Composer and
Director of the Festival of New Plays at Cleveland Public Theatre, where
she supervised the development and production of nearly 200 new plays and
readings. She has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Cleveland
State University, where she has also taught Advanced Playwriting.
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Gerry currently freelances as a dramaturg, playwright and director, while teaching in the drama department at the University of Alberta and working on a book about new play development. He recently directed the premiere of Frank Moher's "All I Ever Wanted" at the Nanaimo Festival Theatre
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Also an accomplished playwright, actor and director, Jim currently teaches in the drama department at the University of Alberta. Search for more information about Jim and his films in the Internet Movie Database.
Use the link below to go "Back" Also an accomplished radio dramatist, his scripts for CBC include "The
Burning", "Johnny Colours", and a seven-part series to be heard in the Fall of 1999.
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Returning to North America, she became a story editor for CBC-TV Drama in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, spending nine years with the long-running series "The Beachcombers", seen internationally in over 50 countries. Since then, she has adapted two of her stage plays, "Monkeyshines" and "Gone to Glory", for film, while also story editing numerous other films in development and working as a script assessor for various funding agencies. She now lives in Mill Bay, B.C. where she writes full-time for film and theatre.
Linda Eisenstein is a playwright, composer, critic, and teacher. She has
over a dozen award-winning plays and musical theatre works to her credit,
including "Three the Hard Way" (winner of the 1996 Gilmore Creek
Playwriting Competition), "The Names of the Beast", (winner of the 1996
Sappho's Symposium Competition), the rock opera "Star Wares: The Next
Generation" (with James Levin), the opera "Street Sense" (with Migdalia
Cruz), and the musical "The Last Red Wagon Tent Show in the Land" (with
Teddi Davis). Her works have been presented in venues throughout the U.S.,
from off-off Broadway to San Francisco, Houston, Cleveland, Dallas, Miami,
Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, and internationally at the Melbourne and
Edmonton Fringe Festivals.
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Gerry Potter has been a professional playwright, dramaturg, director
and teacher for twenty-five years. He has worked with professional
theatres across the continent, from New York to Vancouver Island. His major work
was as founder and, for seventeen years, Artistic Director of
Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre, an award-winning Edmonton theatre
company specializing in work with new plays. The company is
known internationally for premiering or developing a large number of hits,
including Brad Fraser's "Unidentified Human Remains", Frank Moher's "Odd Jobs", and Raymond Storey's "The Saints and the Apostles". Potter has himself
written a number of professionally produced plays, including "Chaudiere", "Cressida", "The Long Dig" (for radio), and "The Rich Man" (published in Canadian Theatre Review, Summer 1987).
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James DeFelice is an award-winning screenwriter and much sought-after story editor. His writing credits include the screenplay for the Bud Cort/Samantha Eggar film "Why Shoot the Teacher", as well as the Genie-nominated "Angel Square", starring Ned Beatty and directed by Anne Wheeler, recently seen on CBC Television and the Disney Channel. His TV drama "Letting Go" was a prizewinner at the San Francisco Film Festival, and he was a contributor to the internationally-syndicated series "Stony Plain". Jim's credits as a story editor include the 1996 ACE award-winner and Emmy nominee "Songspinner" (seen on Showtime) and "Evil Blue Devil Man Roams the Voodoo Jungle", currently in development with Kicking Horse Productions.
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Greg Nelson is the award-winning author of "speak", which has been widely
produced since its premiere at Alberta Theatre Projects in Calgary in 1998.
His other plays include "Spirit Wrestler" and "Sidney," produced
at Saskatoon's 25th Street Theatre, "Flight of the Living Dog" and "Slow
Zoom" (Theatre Eleven), and "Castrato" (Theatre Network in Edmonton). "Castrato"
was winner of the Sterling Award for Outstanding New Play as well as the
Alberta Book Award and the Canadian National Playwriting Competition, and
is published byBlizzard Publishing.
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Well-known as a playwright, Suzanne Finlay has also worked extensively as both a writer and story editor for film and television. Her early career as an actress took her from Illinois to England in the 1950s, where she eventually came to work as Story Editor for MGM Films ("because," she says, "the money was better"). Later, she was an agent for the Curtis Brown Agency, where her clients included Noel Coward, Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett.
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