Playwright, Screenwriter, and Artistic Director.
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 climbed Masada at five years old, studied classical ballet and martial arts, was a dancer for MTV and owned her own cafe. She wrote her first short story in kindergarten about a snowflake, her first poem about hating vacuum cleaners, and in writing her first play she answered the nagging call of uncertainty over her life's path. She is still writing plays some 13 years later. As a Graduate of the Stella Adler Acting Conservatory Studio in New York, she is also an Alumna of the Writers Workshops at University of Iowa BA with Honors and a Minor in Dance and Ohio University MFA. |
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PRESS and INTERVIEWS
"The Next Time" Presented in The Gun Control Theatre Action Produced by nopassport and Theatre J, Featured in The Washington Post
New York Madness Season Launch with Featured in BROADWAYWORLD.COM
WRITE OUT FRONT in the New York Times and BRODWAY WORLD.COM
BIOLIFE on BROADWAYWORLD.COM (Snippet) on NEW YORK THEATRE REVIEW
BIOLIFE on NewYorkTheatreReview.Blogspot
COURTING on BROADWAYWORLD.COM
THE WICKED SON in the Press: http://www.baristanet.com/2012/03/you-be-the-judge-at-the-jewish-plays-project-finals/
NYMadness in 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
New York Madness Season Launch with Featured in BROADWAYWORLD.COM
WRITE OUT FRONT in the New York Times and BRODWAY WORLD.COM
BIOLIFE on BROADWAYWORLD.COM (Snippet) on NEW YORK THEATRE REVIEW
BIOLIFE on NewYorkTheatreReview.Blogspot
COURTING on BROADWAYWORLD.COM
THE WICKED SON in the Press: http://www.baristanet.com/2012/03/you-be-the-judge-at-the-jewish-plays-project-finals/
NYMadness in 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!
Online Webcast Reading and Publication of What We Teach Our Children by Cecilia Copeland
Selected by the National 31 Plays in 31 Days Project in 2013 (Full Cast and Date TBA)
Gun Control Theatre Action featuring The Next Time by Cecilia Copeland end of May 2013 details TBA.
Fresh Produced Featuring, Sell It Hard by Cecilia Copeland at The Drama Bookshop on May 16th at 7:30pm.
New York Madness with Featured Guest Saviana Stanescu at Urban Stages on May 20th at 8pm!
New Perspectives Summer New Play Festival featuring, Between Here and There by Cecilia Copeland.
(August 12th-18th. Stay tuned for times and ticketing information.)
Light of Night by Cecilia Copeland upcoming production for the Inaugural Reopening Season of IATI Theater in 2014. Details coming soon!
Selected by the National 31 Plays in 31 Days Project in 2013 (Full Cast and Date TBA)
Gun Control Theatre Action featuring The Next Time by Cecilia Copeland end of May 2013 details TBA.
Fresh Produced Featuring, Sell It Hard by Cecilia Copeland at The Drama Bookshop on May 16th at 7:30pm.
New York Madness with Featured Guest Saviana Stanescu at Urban Stages on May 20th at 8pm!
New Perspectives Summer New Play Festival featuring, Between Here and There by Cecilia Copeland.
(August 12th-18th. Stay tuned for times and ticketing information.)
Light of Night by Cecilia Copeland upcoming production for the Inaugural Reopening Season of IATI Theater in 2014. Details coming soon!
Bio (Download Resume Here)
Cecilia’s plays have been Produced by Culture Project, The Anarchist Theatre
Festival of Montreal, Stage Left Productions, Dark Luna, 13th Street Rep, New York Madness, PUSSY FEST with CAPSLOCK PRODUCTIONS, SLUT at The Disreputables in DC, Metro Screen Australia , and soon to be IATI THEATER among others.
She’s been 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. She is a Semi-Finalist for The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, The David Calicchio Emerging Playwright's Prize, Seven Devil's Playwright's Conference and a Finalist for Mabou Mines Artist Residency.
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.
Her play, What We Teach Our Children was selected by the 31 Plays in 31 Days Project for inclusion in their staged reading series following her participation in the nationwide initiative that lasted throughout August last summer.
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 New Works Women's Playlab at New Perspectives, the 50/50 in 2020 movement, the Dramatists Guild of America, and The League of Professional Theatre Women.
Contact details:
ceciliacopeland@gmail.com
She’s been 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. She is a Semi-Finalist for The O'Neill Playwrights Conference, The David Calicchio Emerging Playwright's Prize, Seven Devil's Playwright's Conference and a Finalist for Mabou Mines Artist Residency.
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.
Her play, What We Teach Our Children was selected by the 31 Plays in 31 Days Project for inclusion in their staged reading series following her participation in the nationwide initiative that lasted throughout August last summer.
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 New Works Women's Playlab at New Perspectives, the 50/50 in 2020 movement, the Dramatists Guild of America, and The League of Professional Theatre Women.
Contact details:
ceciliacopeland@gmail.com
