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 now playing page is an up to date snapshot of what is currently in production or rehearsal, what has just been published, and what is coming soon. 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 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 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, UK, Australia, Canada and Europe. Somewhere In Between (or) The Ghost of Molly Malone has been awarded a Pinter Review Prize Silver Medal, the Yukon Pacific Playwright Award and an American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award nomination. The ten-minute play Elephants and Coffee, has won several awards including the Alan Minieri Award, and was selected as a finalist for the Heideman Award. Other Award-winning shorts include Our Lady Of The Sea, The Things She Kept, and Hell Hath Three Furies
 

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 has gone on to receive productions in the USA and in Brussels. Love And A Wide Moon has been a finalist for Stage Three, the Eric Bentley Award, and The Nancy Weil New Play Search, and 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), View From The Moon won the Sandhills Writing Conference Short Story Award (2004) Pulled Under/Set Afloat won the Philladelphia Writers' Conference Literary Short Story Award (2005), and The Houdini Handbook was a runner up for the Reynolds Fiction Pirze (2007).

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 International Center for Women Playwrights. She has acted as a new play respondent and taught playwriting workshops for The Arvada Center, The Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and KC/ACTF.