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RITA KNIESS BARKEY
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More than a dozen of Rita Kniess Barkeys plays have been produced around the country. Recent works include Firewall, selected for the 2011 Pandora Festival in Phoenix; Techno Tango, a 2012 finalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference; and Very F.B., a 2012 finalist at the Double (XX) Festival in Seattle. She has had staged readings at Chicago Dramatists, Indiana Theater Works, and Missoula Colony, among others. Accolades include a Basile Emerging Playwright award, an Indiana Arts Commission fellowship, as well as a Community Outreach Award from the Mary Anderson Center. She did her graduate work in Theater and playwriting at Indiana University and earned an MFA in English from the Ohio State University. Rita currently resides in Missoula, Montana, where she is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the International Centre for Women Playwrights, and a founding member of Zoola Playwrights, a collective dedicated to producing new plays.
Research: Member of the Dramatists Guild of America
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Firewall
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selected for the 2011 Pandora Festival in Phoenix
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Humming, The
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Sarah has no interest in stopping her ailing Father Roj from killing himself; in fact, shed love to see him thrown in an unmarked grave. But when she discovers that Rojs weapon of choice is her Winchester rifle, the past she thought she'd be burying is resurrected and she finds herself face-to-face with the loss shed been so determined to survive.
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Techno Tango
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a 2012 finalist for the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference
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Very F.B.
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a 2012 finalist at the Double (XX) Festival in Seattle
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