Chronology of Awards, Productions, Publications, and Other Credits

Since pursuing writing actively in 1998, Aoise has won numerous awards and had many of her plays produced and several stories published. She also participates in the writing community by attending conferences, discussions, readings, and retreats, by serving as a playwriting respondent/panelist, by teaching workshops, and very occasionally, by directing or co-producing new work.

Awards:

 

Feb 2008 Winner Our Lady Of The Sea
Turtle Shell Productions Ten Minute Play Festival Best Playwright Award

Dec 2007 Semi-Finalist The Closet
Short and Sweet International Ten Minute Play Contest, Melbourne, Aus

Feb 2007 Winner Henry's Wives
Gloria Allen Peter Playwriting Award, Morgan Opera House, NY

Dec 2006 Winner Ophelia's Hamlet
Potluck Productions, MO

Oct 2006 Semi-finalist Henry's Wives
Orlando Shakespeare Festival Harriet Lake Award, FL

May 2006 Honorable Mention Population Growth
Old Opera House Theatre Company's New Voice Play Festival, WV

December 2005 Semi-Finalist O' Vile, Vial! First Stage One Act Play Contest, CA September 2005 Fourth Place The Redwood Cage Writers Digest Annual Literary Awards - Stage Play Category August 2005 Winner (1st place) Love And A Wide Moon Hudson River Classics New Play Contest, NY August 2005 Finalist Travel Companion Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest, FL June 2005 Winner (1st place) Pulled Under; Set Afloat Philadelphia Writers Conference, Literary Short Story Contest

Hudson River Classics Showcase Theatre

June 2005 Spot Light Award (3rd Place) Skulls
Old Opera House Theatre Company New Play Festival, WV

April 2005 Finalist Our Lady of The Sea
Ten By Ten in the Triangle, ArtsCenter, NC

April 2005 Finalist Dead In the Water: A Play Noir for Three Hams

Hudson Stage Works New Play Festival, NY

April 2005 Winner Audience Favorite and Honorable Mention for Best Play Hell Hath Three Furies NY 15 Minute Play Festival, NY Feb 2005 Winner (1st place) Our Lady Of The Sea Lakeshore Players National Ten Minute Play Contest Jan 20005 Winner Three Horseshoes Willmington Drama League One Act Play Festival, DE (Runner Up at State Festival) Aug 2004 Winner You Know What I Mean Writers Digest 2004 Writing Contest: Literary/Mainstream Fiction Category

Hell Hath Three Furies at the American Globe

July 2004 Winner Elephants and Coffee
The Fifteen Minute Festival "Unstill Life" and Playwriting Competition, ME

May 2004 Silver Medalist Somewhere in Between (or) The Ghost of Molly Malone
Pinter Review Prize for Drama

March 2004 Winner Best Short Story (View From The Moon)
Sandhills Writers' Conference, GA

Mar 2004 Second Place Hell Hath Three Furies TheaterCRAM Festival, The Coronet Theatre, LA, 2004 Feb 2004 Finalist Beach With Telephone and Finalist Monologue For Lady Macbeth Boca Raton Theatre Guild Short Play Contest and Reading Festival Jan 2004 Semi-Finalist Love And A Wide Moon American Theatre Co-op New Play Contest
(Fall, 2003)	Dark City Dames: 2nd place TheatreCRAM 2004

Oct 2003 2nd Place; Stage Play Category Love And A Wide Moon
Writers Digest Writing Competition, USA

Oct 2003 Honorable Mention Differently
Writer's Digest Writing Competition; Mainstream/Literary Fiction Category, USA

Oct 2003 Honorable Mention Love And A Wide Moon
Eric Bentley New Play Competition, NY

Sept 2003 Finalist Heideman Award Elephants and Coffee
Actors Theatre of Louisville / Humana Festival, KY

May 2003 Finalist Differently
Julia Peterkin Fiction Award, USA

April 2003 Winner Alan Minieri Award and Honorable Mention Best Play
Elephants and Coffee
Turnip Theatre Co. and American Globe New York 15 Minute Play Festival, NY

March 2003 Winner Elephants and Coffee
CrossCurrents Five and Dime Playwriting Contest, MO

Feb 2003 ACTF Regional Finalist Somewhere In Between (or) The Ghost of Molly Malone American College Theatre Festival, UAA production, WA Alison Gal & Danny Jones, in the UAA Production at ACTF Finals Dec 2002 Nominated Somewhere In Between (or) The Ghost of Molly Malone (UAA production) American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, USA

Dec 2002 Finalist (top 10) Love and a Wide Moon
Stage 3 New Play Search and Festival, CA

Nov 2002 Finalist Emerging Playwrights Award The Handbasket
Playground Emerging Playwrights Festival, CA

Oct 2002 Finalist Nancy Weil New Play Award Love and a Wide Moon
Firefly Productions, VT

Sept 2002 Winner Best 15 Minute Play Elephants and Coffee
Sonoma County Rep New Plays Competition, CA

Sept 2002 Honorable Mention 15 Minute Play Division Skulls
Sonoma County Rep New Play Competition, CA

June 2002 Winner Audience choice award and Winner Best Ten Minute Play Award
Elephants and Coffee
Last Frontier Theatre Conference, AK

Feb 2002 Winner Beach With Telephone
Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz 8 Tens at Eight competition, CA

Sept 2001 Finalist Will And The Ghost (co-written with Conal Condren)
South West Theatre Association New Play Competition, TX

July 2001 Winner Will And The Ghost (co-written with Conal Condren)
New Britain Repertory One Act Play Competition, CT

June 2001 Winner Yukon Pacific Playwright Award and Winner Audience Choice Award Somewhere In Between (or) The Ghost of Molly Malone Last Frontier Theatre Conference, AK The staged reading at the conference in Valdez May 2001 Winner Will And The Ghost (co-written with Conal Condren) Pennsylvania Playhouse Premiere One Act Competition, PA

Jan 2001 Finalist Three Horseshoes
Sydney Writer's Festival Pitch Competition, AUSTRALIA

June 2000 Winner Panelists' Choice Award Along The Watchtower
Last Frontier Theatre Conference, AK

April 2000 Nominated: Best New American Voices The Long Wait
University of San Francisco MFA program Nominated Stories, CA

Dec 1997 Winner Penguin Book Prize
Department of English, University of New South Wales, AUSTRALIA

 

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Productions:

May 2008 Turtle Beach
Inspirato Festival, Toronto CANADA

Feb 2008 Our Lady Of The Sea
Turtle Shell Productions Eight Minute Madness Festival, NY (Festival Winner)

Feb 2008 Elephants and Coffee
Turtle Shell Productions Eight Minute Madness Festival, NY (Festival Winner)

Feb 2008 The Unfortunates (Workshop Production) Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, FL Jun 2007 Monologue For Lady Macbeth Love Creek Productions, Sam French Festival, NY May 2007 The Unfortunates (Workshop Production) The Kitchen Theatre, Ithaca, NY Apr 2007 O, Vile Vial! Fields of Honor Festival, Pointed Remarques Classical Theatre, CO Apr 2007 Love And A Wide Moon Prince William Sound Community College, AK

Meg Elliott as Mary Jane Kelly in The Unfortunates, Photo courtesy of Kitchen Theatre

Apr 2007 The Things She Kept
Kingwood College Ten Minute Play Festival, TX

Mar 2007 20/20
Adelphi University Ten Minute Play Festival, NY

Mar 2007 The Things She Kept
Augustana College Ten Minute Play Festival, SC

Mar 2007 Ophelia's Hamlet
Potluck Productions, MO

Nov 2006 Our Lady Of The Sea Emeging Artists Theatre Fall EAT Festival, NY Oct 2006 Monologue For Lady Macbeth Love Creek Productions, at the Producer's Club Theatre, NY Our Lady of the Sea, EAT Festival New York Jul 2006 Elephants and Coffee North Park Vauderville, CA

Jul 2006 Elephants and Coffee
Theatre @ First, MA

June 2006 The Closet City Theatre Summer Shorts, FL June 2006 Hell Hath Three Furies Love Creek Productions, at the Producer's Club Theatre, NY June 2006 Population Growth Looking Glass Theatre's Playwrights Forum, NY May 2006 Till Death Do Us Part Cross Currents Theatre, Fantasia Festival, MO May 2006 Monologue For Lady Macbeth Mae West Festival, Seattle WA May 2006 Elephants and Coffee Heartlande Theatre Company, Play by Play Retrospective, MI

The Closet, at City Theatre Florida

Mar 2006 Picture Of The Future
Raw Impressions Musical Theatre, NY

Mar 2006 Hell Hath Three Furies Alleyway Theatre's Quickies Festival, NY Dec 2005 Hell Hath Three Furies Looking Glass Theatre's Winter Forum, NY Sept 2005 Talk Tantrum Theatre Company, Lunchbox Festival, Newcastle, AUS Jul 2005 Hell Hath Three Furies Studio Repertory Theatre, New Works Festival, RI
	Looking Glass Theatre, NY

Jul 2005 Subject
Hurlstone Agricultural College, Sydney Australia

	Jun 2005 Subject Play By Play Marathon, Heartlande Theatre Co., MI May 2005 Along The Watchtower Teatro del Naville, ITALY April 2005 Our Lady Of The Sea Lakeshore Players, MN April 2005 Hell Hath Three Furies NY 15 Minute Play Festival, American Globe Theatre, NY
Along The Watchtower, Teatro del Navile, Bologna

Feb 2005 Subject
Short and Sweet Festival, Newtown Theatre, Sydney Australia

Jan 2005 Three Horseshoes
Wilmington Drama League One-Act Play Festival, DE

Nov 2004 Round / Square ABYDOS Feast Of One Page plays, Directors Theatre of San Francisco, CA Oct 2004 The Handbasket Estrogenius Festival, NY Michael Patrick Collins as Mephisto and Dana Chehansky as Snafu in The Handbasket at Manhattan Theatre Source Aug 2004 Elephants and Coffee The 15 Minute Festival, ME July 2004 Elephants and Coffee Mae West Festival, WA

June 2004 Elephants and Coffee
City Theatre Co., Summer Shorts Festival, FL

April 2004 Henry's Wives University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY Carly Schaub as Jane Seymour in Henry's Wives April 2004 Talk Prince William Sound Community College, AK April 2004 Dead In the Water (Note: Workshop only) Canestoga College, Canada Mar 2004 Hell Hath Three Furies TheaterCRAM Festival, Los Angeles CA

Feb 2004 Elephants and Coffee
Kokopelli Theatre Company, Monday Night Fundraiser, AK

July 2003 Talk Isis Arts Collective, Summer Shorts Festival, CA July 2003 Elephants And Coffee Vortex Quickies Festival, Albuquerque, NM June 2003 Dead in The Water; A Play Noir For 3 Hams Shorts In Winter Festival, Bondi Pavilion, Sydney, AUSTRALIA May 2003 Three Horseshoes Teatro del Navile, BOA Italia Festival, Bologna, ITALY Beatrice Zamboni as Laura in the Teatro del Navile production

May 2003 Elephants And Coffee
Heartlande Theatre Company Play Marathon Festival, MI

May 2003 Black Saturday and Elephants and Coffee Glenbrook Players One Act Festival, AUSTRALIA Michael Morley as Henry in the Glenbrook Players Black Saturday April 2003 Elephants And Coffee Turnip Theatre Co. and American Globe New York 15 Minute Play Festival, NY March 2003 Elephants And Coffee Cross Currents Five and Dime Festival, MO

Feb 2003 Along The Watchtower
Three Wise Monkeys Theater Company, BOA Festival, CA

Feb 2003 Elephants And Coffee
SUNY Brockport Festival of Ten, NY

Jan 2003 Till Death Do Us Part
Short and Sweet Festival, Newtown Theatre, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

Dec 2002 Somewhere In Between, or, The Ghost of Molly Malone University of Alaska Anchorage, AK This production ran in three cities, Anchorage, Seattle, and Valdez. (Production toured to compete for ACTF at Regionals, WA remounted at the 2003 Last Frontier Theatre Conference, AK) Rick Barreras & Jessica Marsh face off as Cordelia and the Policeman in the UAA production

Oct 2002 The Anniversary Gift
ABYDOS, Directors Theatre of San Francisco Feast of 1 page plays, CA

Aug 2002 Till Death Do Us Part
Playwrights' Stew Festival, Theatre Rhino, CA

July 2002 Somewhere In Between (or) The Ghost of Molly Malone Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company with erinys Productions, for the Women On The Way series at Venue Nine, San Francisco, CA Jay Moore as John and Mike Symonds as Alfred at Venue 9

July 2002 Will And The Ghost (co-written with Conal Condren)
Tobacco Bar Theatre, Midtown International Theatre Festival, NY

July 2002 Elephants And Coffee
City Theatre Company, annual ten minute play festival, DE

June 2002 Elephants And Coffee Offstage Theatre Co, Charlottesville, VA May 2002 Dead in The Water; A Play Noir For Three Hams Unidentified Theatre Company, One-Act Marathon, CA Flo Alessandria and Donna Trousdale in the Unidentified production of Dead In The Water Feb 2002 Beach With Telephone Actors Theatre of Santa Cruz 8 Tens at Eight Festival, CA

Jan 2002 Monologue For Lady Macbeth
Heartlande Theatre Company, 24 hour Marathon, MI

Jan 2002 Three Horseshoes Coelacanth Theatricals for the Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Co. BOA Festival (text also available in the BOA Festival anthology), CA TJ Metz, Becky Friese, & Eric Rice in Three Horseshoes (photo by Nick Sholley)

Sept 2001 Dead In The Water; A Play Noir for Three Hams
Day trippers at the San Francisco Fringe, CA

May 2001 Monologue For Lady Macbeth
Long Island City Arts Project, Arts Frenzy Festival, NY

April 2001 Ophelia's Hamlet Turnip Theatre Co. and American Globe New York 15 Minute Play Fest, NY Gavin Pawsey & Rebecca Jee in Black Saturday (also appearing in Ophelia's Hamlet and Along The Watchtower) May 1998 Black Saturday and Along The Watchtower and Ophelia's Hamlet Produced in association with NUTS, Studio 1, Sydney, AUSTRALIA

 

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Publications:

2008 Our Lady of The Sea (short play)
Best of the EAT Festival 2006-2007 Anthology, United Stages

2008 Elephants and Coffee (excerpt from short play)
Womens Monologues, Merriweather Press

2007 Hell Hath Three Furies (one act play)
Best Ten Minute Plays 2005 (3 Actors or More), Smith and Kraus

2004 You Know What I Mean (short fiction)
The Year's Best Writing, Writers Digest Dec 2004

2004 Dead In the Water: A Play Noir For Three Hams (one act play)
House To Half Anthology of one-act plays, Pretty Things Press
ISBN 1-57612-225-5.

2004 Monologue from Population Growth (excerpt - one act play)
60 Seconds to Shine, One Minute Monologues for Women Smith and Kraus

2004 Tahoe (short fiction)
City Works, Volume 11, 2004

2004 Monologue from Population Growth (excerpt - one act play)
The Ultimate Monologue Book, Vol 4, Smith and Kraus

2003 Along The Watchtower (one act play) Boa Festival II Anthology, Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company 2002 Three Horseshoes (one act play) Boa Festival I Anthology, Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company, CA This anthology and the anthologies from the other BOA festivals, (including the first Boa festival which featured Three Horsehsoes), are available from the Three Wise Monkeys website 2002 Skinning The Cat (short fiction) The Unknown Writer Fall

2002 Holiday (short fiction)
Rockhurst Review Volume 15, Spring, MO

2001 Studying History (short fiction)
The Midday Moon, Issue 2 Winter, Montag Publishing, MN

2001 At The Beach (short fiction)
Santa Clara Review, Volume 88, Number 1, Fall/Winter, CA

2001 Falling Over (short fiction)
Seedhouse Magazine, May/June, Seedhouse Press, CO

1999 The Train (short fiction) The Oakland Review, Pittsburgh, PA 1999 In My Own Defense (short fiction) Zaum, Vol 3 Sonoma, CA 1999 A Wardrobe of Smiles (short fiction) Zaum, Vol. 3 Sonoma, CA 1999 My Husband's Feet (short fiction) The Ignatian Review, San Francisco, CA

1999 Talking About Weather (short fiction)
Crack, Issue Two, Crack Magazine, San Francisco, CA

See Fiction page for more information on fiction publications.

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Other Credits:

• BA with Honors in Theatre Studies and English, University of NSW, AUS (1997)
• MFA in Fiction - University of San Francisco, (2000)
• Playwriting Workshop - Will Dunne, San Francisco (2001)
• Artist in Residence - Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, NY (2002, 2004)
• Artist in Residence - Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, CA (2003)
• Panelist - Last Frontier Theatre Conference, AK (2003)
• Merit Scholarship in Fiction - Southampton Writers' Conference NY (2003)
• Contributor in Fiction - Breadloaf Writers' Conference VT (2003)
• Panelist - KCACTF Region Seven, Idaho (2004, 2005)
• Panelist - Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region - Arvada Center for the Arts, Denver (2004, 2005)
• Contributor in Playwriting - Sewanee Writers Conference TN (2005)
• Writer in Residence under Writer's Grant - Vermont Studio Center VT (2005)

Fellow playwright Cheri Magid watches a deer behind our studios at the Byrdcliffe Colony in up state New York	Unwinding with fellow panelists at the "Gala," at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska

Responding to new plays at the Arvada Center
with the talented and lovely Lee Blessing and the talented and lovely Jane Page

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