CECILIA COPELAND is a Midwestern, Latin-American, Israeli, Non-Princess and legal resident of Australia who chooses to live in her adopted home, New York.
She began her playwriting career after Graduating from the New York Stella Adler Studio, Conservatory Class, in 1998. She holds a Theatre BA with Honors, Emphasis in Playwriting and a Minor in Dance, from The University of Iowa, and Playwriting MFA Ohio University. |
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PRESS and INTERVIEWS
THE WICKED SON in the Press: http://www.baristanet.com/2012/03/you-be-the-judge-at-the-jewish-plays-project-finals/
Press about NYM on Huffington Post.
INTERVIEWS
Zack Callhoon's Visible Soul. People You Should Know... Cecilia Copeland
http://theaterspeak.blogspot.com/2011/10/anything-can-happen-in-madness.html
http://theaterspeak.blogspot.com/2011/12/when-i-hear-what-you-should-do-is-if.html
http://nymadness.com/2011/09/30/cecilia-copeland/
http://theaterspeak.blogspot.com/2011/07/dish-that-inspired-music-that-inspired.html
Press about NYM on Huffington Post.
INTERVIEWS
Zack Callhoon's Visible Soul. People You Should Know... Cecilia Copeland
http://theaterspeak.blogspot.com/2011/10/anything-can-happen-in-madness.html
http://theaterspeak.blogspot.com/2011/12/when-i-hear-what-you-should-do-is-if.html
http://nymadness.com/2011/09/30/cecilia-copeland/
http://theaterspeak.blogspot.com/2011/07/dish-that-inspired-music-that-inspired.html
Coming Up Next
BIOLIFE at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Directed by Michael Barakiva. June 24th.
COURTING in the undergroundszero Festival at Clemente Soto Valez. July 15th
"The Wicked Son" Stay Tuned for news of an upcoming reading date at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe.
Light of Night upcoming production for the reopening of IATI Theater in 2013.
Bio
Cecilia’s plays have been Produced by The Anarchist Theatre
Festival of Montreal, Stage Left Productions, Dark Luna, 13th Street Rep, and Metro Screen Australia among others.
She’s commissioned by The Drilling Co, Overturn Theatre Ensemble, The Pink Ribbon Project, and The Performing Arts High School.
She is the recipient of the Lennis J. Holm Playwriting Scholarship from University of Iowa for her Honors Thesis, One Woman which was produced in SWAN Day 2008.
Her work, "The Wicked Son" was named one of the Top Ten Best New Jewish Plays by the JPP, and went on to the next round where she was named one of the Top Three.
She was awarded a Special Effects Grant from Metro Screen Australia for her Screenplay, Amusement Bomber.
PM Press will be Publishing her play Words of Revolutionary, and The International Center for Women Playwrights will Publish two of her short plays, Moontanner Girls and Unicorn.
Cecilia is the Founder and Artistic Director of New York Madness, a Member of the 50/50 in 2020 movement, and the Dramatists Guild of America.
Contact details:
ceciliacopeland@gmail.com
She’s commissioned by The Drilling Co, Overturn Theatre Ensemble, The Pink Ribbon Project, and The Performing Arts High School.
She is the recipient of the Lennis J. Holm Playwriting Scholarship from University of Iowa for her Honors Thesis, One Woman which was produced in SWAN Day 2008.
Her work, "The Wicked Son" was named one of the Top Ten Best New Jewish Plays by the JPP, and went on to the next round where she was named one of the Top Three.
She was awarded a Special Effects Grant from Metro Screen Australia for her Screenplay, Amusement Bomber.
PM Press will be Publishing her play Words of Revolutionary, and The International Center for Women Playwrights will Publish two of her short plays, Moontanner Girls and Unicorn.
Cecilia is the Founder and Artistic Director of New York Madness, a Member of the 50/50 in 2020 movement, and the Dramatists Guild of America.
Contact details:
ceciliacopeland@gmail.com
