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recent developments
August 2009: CINDERELLA'S MICE (book and additional lyrics by Justin, music and lyrics by Ben Morss), is published by Baker's Plays.
July 2009: Commissioned by the Ensemble Studio Theatre-Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to write a musical about Alexander Graham Bell with Fred Ebb Award-winning composer-lyricist Adam Gwon.
July 2009: HEAD GAMES is produced as part of the Rising Sun Performance Company's TWISTED, NYC.
June 2009: AMERICAN WHUP-ASS is published by Original Works Publishing.
June 2009: SCREWUPS: LITTLE PLAYS ABOUT BIG MISTAKES produced by Alabama's Birmingham Festival Theatre.
May 2009: THE MASKED ZINFANDEL (music by Peter Yarin) is featured in a BMI Workshop Master Class, moderated by Tom Jones (THE FANTASTICKS, 110 IN THE SHADE).
May 2009: PARENT INTERVIEW starts a six-week run as part of Circus Theatricals' Circus Theatricals' 14th Annual Ten Minute Play Festival in Los Angeles.
April 2009: "Just Some Guy," from THE MASKED ZINFANDEL, is featured in the NEO5 Benefit Concert at the York Theatre, NYC.
January 2009: Justin becomes an Associate Artist with the Alternative Theatre Ensemble.
October 2008: AMERICAN WHUP-ASS premieres in San Rafael, California, produced by the Alternative Theatre Ensemble. Read the critics' raves!
September 2008: PARENT INTERVIEW is named a finalist in the Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten-Minute Play Contest.
awards & honors
Winner, Global Age Project, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley, CA
Winner, Harrington Award,
BMI Musical Theatre Workshop
Winner,
Kennedy Center-ACTF Region II
Playwriting Competition
Winner,
George Foster Peabody Award
(radio scriptwriting,
Kinetic City Super Crew)
Winner,
Wichita State University National Playwriting Contest
Winner, Source Theatre 10-Minute Play Competition
Three-time winner, Source Theatre Audience Vote Award
Winner, Philadelphia City Paper online collaborative playwriting competition
Winner, Pan Theatre 10-Minute Play Competition
Producer's Choice Award, Ten-Minute Play Festival,
Los Angeles Repertory Company
First Runner-Up, New American Comedy competition, Ukiah Players Theatre
First Runner-Up, The Ohio State University's Eileen Heckart Drama for Seniors Competition (10 minute play category)
Two-time first runner-up,
Larry Neal Awards,
DC Arts Commission
Finalist,
Princess Grace Award
Six-time finalist, National Ten-Minute Play Contest,
Actors Theatre of Louisville
Finalist,
Jacob Javits Fellowship in the Humanities
Finalist, Christopher Brian Wolk Award,
Abingdon Theatre Company
Finalist, Dorothy Silver Award for New Jewish Plays,
Cleveland JCC Halle Theatre
Semi-finalist,
O'Neill National Playwrights Conference
Semi-finalist, Lark Theatre Playwrights Week
Semi-finalist,
Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
Semi-finalist, Mildred and Albert Panowski Award
Two-time Honorable Mention,
Writer's Digest Writing Competition
productions & festivals
NEW YORK:
NEUROfest
Theatre 5 NYC
Vital Children's Theatre McGinn/Cazale Theatre
NYC
Buffalo Bridge Productions
Manhattan Theatre Source NYC
NY Collective 10-Minute Play Festival Urban Stages NYC
Raw Impressions Music Theatre Festival
HERE Arts Center NYC
Rising Sun Performance Company
NYC
Invisible City Theatre Company Manhattan Theatre Source
NYC
Emerging Artists Theatre
NYC
Samuel French
Original Short Play Festival NYC (5 productions)
Ensemble Studio Theatre
NYC
Chester Horn Short Play Festival Medicine Show Theatre NYC
"Spontaneous Combustion,"
Manhattan Theatre Source
NYC
Main Street Arts Nyack NY (NYC metro)
REGIONAL/INTERNATIONAL:
Union Theatre
London UK
Alternative Theater Ensemble (AlterTheater)
San Rafael CA
Circus Theatricals
Los Angeles CA
Moving Arts
Los Angeles CA
Attic Theatre
Los Angeles CA
Los Angeles Repertory Company
Los Angeles CA
LACC Theatre Academy
Los Angeles CA
Pan Theater 10-Minute Play Festival Blue Bear Theatre San Francisco CA
Actors Alliance of San Diego Festival Lyceum San Diego CA
Appetite Theatre Bruschetta Festival Chicago IL
Summer Shorts Festival Miami & Ft. Lauderdale FL
Theatre Conspiracy
Ft. Myers FL
Artists Repertory Theatre Orlando FL
Source Theatre Festival Washington DC (11 productions)
Catholic University
Washington DC
Cedar Lane Stage Bethesda MD (DC metro)
Birmingham Festival Theatre Birmingham AL
FronteraFest
Austin TX
Ritz Theatre NJ
Clear Space Productions New Works Festival Lewes DE
City Theater Company
Wilmington DE
Wichita State University
Wichita KS
Kettering University
Flint MI
Or Shalom Theatre Troupe
Toronto Canada
commissions
Ensemble Studio Theatre-Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2009-10)
The Nightingale-Bamford School
NYC: Adaptations of Gilbert & Sullivan's PATIENCE (2008) and THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE (2009)
Vital Children's Theatre
NYC: Original children's musical, CINDERELLA'S MICE (2006)
readings & workshops
ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theatre Workshop (Stephen Schwartz, Craig Carnelia, Tom Cott), NYC
BMI Workshop Master Class (Tom Jones), NYC
New Dramatists
NYC
TRU Voices Series
Theatre Resources Unlimited NYC
Ensemble Studio Theatre Octoberfest
NYC
Abingdon Theatre Company
NYC
Musical Mondays Theatre Lab
NYC
Any Minute Now Productions
NYC
Canal Cafe Theatre London UK
Arts Theatre London UK
Hudson Stage
Croton-on-Hudson NY (NYC metro)
Luna Stage
Montclair NJ (NYC metro)
DeBaun Auditorium New Playwrights Series
Hoboken NJ (NYC metro)
NJ Rep
Long Branch NJ
Last Frontier Playwrights Conference Valdez AK
Global Age Project, Aurora Theatre, Berkeley CA
Old Museum Arts Centre
Belfast Northern Ireland
Signature Theatre
Arlington VA (DC metro)
Round House Theatre
Bethesda MD (DC metro)
American Stage
Tampa FL
WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab
St. Petersburg FL
Philly Fringe Festival
Philadelphia PA (collaboration)
Pittsburgh New Works Festival
Pittsburgh PA
publications
Cinderella's Mice
(Baker's, 2009)
American Whup-Ass
(Original Works, 2009)
BMI Workshop Songbook
(BMI, 2009)
Screwups: Little Plays About Big Mistakes
(Original Works, 2008)
222 Comedy Monologues: 2 Minutes and Under
(Smith & Kraus, 2005)
The Audition Arsenal for
Men in their 20's,
Men in their 30's,
and
Women in their 30's
(7 monologues in 3 volumes, Smith & Kraus, 2005)
Best Men's Stage Monologues 1998
(Smith & Kraus)
Best Stage Scenes 1998
(Smith & Kraus)
Best Women's Stage Monologues 1999
(Smith & Kraus)
memberships
BMI Musical Theatre Workshop
(Librettist, 2003-present/Lyricist, 2006-present)
BMI Affiliated Songwriter
Associate Artist, Alternative Theatre Ensemble, San Rafael, CA
Dramatists Guild of America
education
MFA, Playwriting,
Catholic University
-- Board of Trustees (full) Scholarship
-- New Dramatists intern
-- Finalist, Academy of Television Arts and Sciences internship competition
BA, Psychology (Neuroscience concentration), magna cum laude,
Haverford College
-- Phi Beta Kappa
-- Visiting student,
Oxford University
(Wadham College)
additional training
Ensemble Studio Theatre
Bay Area Theatresports Improv School
Improv study with Charna Halpern (ImprovOlympic), Keith Johnstone, Joe Bill & Mick Napier (Annoyance Theatre), Jay Rhoderick (Burn Manhattan), others
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