Welcome!

  
This website is set up to give you information about my plays and fiction, and other writing activities. I hope you find it informative and easy to use. The primary purpose of this site is to give prospective actors, directors and producers an introduction to my work and allow them to research the plays or excerpts that interest them. In addition to a play by play guide, there's a page devoted to monologues for actors, as well as a page on reviews. I've also included useful information and links for other playwrights and theatre practitioners as well as information on my fiction.
   

I hope you enjoy this site and thanks for visiting! The site is always being updated with new information and links, so please visit again soon. And if you'd like to get a copy of a script or request production rights, or if you have questions, please contact me at aoise@aoisestratford.com

Bio in Brief:

  
Aoise Stratford has received many awards for her plays, which have been performed in the USA, Australia, Canada and Italy. Somewhere In Between (or) The Ghost of Molly Malone has been awarded a Pinter Review Prize Silver Medal (2004), the Yukon Pacific Playwright Award (2000) and an American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award nomination (2002). The ten-minute play Elephants and Coffee, has won several awards including the Alan Minieri Award (2003), a Five and Dime Playwriting Award (2002), and was selected as a finalist for the Heideman Award (2003).
 

Will and The Ghost, a one-act play co-written with Conal Condren, won first place in the New Britain Repertory One-Act Contest (2002) and the Pennsylvania Playhouse Contest (2002), and Love And A Wide Moon has been a finalist for Stage Three, the Eric Bentley Award, and The Nancy Weil New Play Search. In 2005 it won the HRC New Play Contest.
Also a fiction writer, her stories have appeared in more than ten literary journals. Her short story Differently was a finalist for the Julia Peterkin Award (2003). You Know What I Mean won the literary/mainstream fiction category for the Writers Digest Writing Contest (2004), and View From The Moon won the Sandhills Writing Conference Short Story Award (2004) and Pulled Under/Set Afloat won the Philladelphia Writers' Conference Literary Short Story Award (2005).

Ms. Stratford has an MFA in fiction, has been a writer in residence at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, is a founding member of Three Wise Monkeys Theatre Company where she now serves as advisor in chief, is a member of the Dramatists Guild, and of the Australian National Playwrights Centre, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Playwrights' Center of San Francisco. She has acted as a new play respondent and taught playwriting workshops for The Arvada Center, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and KC/ACTF.