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Erik Ramsey

ERIK RAMSEY

  
Nationality:    USA
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Associate Professor of Playwriting Erik Ramsey is Head of BFA Playwriting and teaches in the MFA Playwriting Program. His plays have been produced around the country, and Samuel French and Dramatic Publishing have published several of his short works. His recent play, LIONS LOST has been developed at numerous regional Theaters including Cleveland Public Theatre, American Stage, Victory Gardens, and Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre. Currently, he is writing a trilogy of historical Dramas about the surprising turn of events that boosted Joseph Smith from life as a small time con-artist to Prophet of the Mormon Church; the first in the series, titled SMITH UNEARtheD, has been read or featured at the International Society of Contemporary Literature and Theatre Conference (Estonia: 2007), the Gwen Frostic National Reading Series at Western Michigan University (Nov, 2008), and at Brick Monkey Theater Ensemble (Dec, 2008) and PICT (Jan.,2011). His two textbooks, the Art of Theatre: then and Now and the Art of Theatre: A Concise Introduction are in their second edition from Wadsworth (2010), and are in use at over 100 colleges and universities nationwide. In 2007 Erik was named a Kennedy Center Faculty Fellow for his work as a new play development specialist and in 2010 he was appointed as Director of Innovation and Research theory for WordBRIDGE Playwrights' Laboratory after many years of developmental Dramaturgy nationwide working with both professional and emerging playwrights. This past September he taught master classes in playwriting and play development techniques at Lubimovka Playwrights Laboratory in Moscow, RussiA.

Research:    Member of the Dramatists Guild of America (as at 2015)

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below is a list of Erik Ramsey's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Acetylene         Lions Lost         Smith Unearthed         Traction
Acetylene

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A husband insists that his wife put an apple in his lunch box each day. One day she forgets and he is killed in an industrial accident. She blames herself

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Contained in: "Award Winning Plays volume Two" published by Samuel French Inc, New York   

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Drama

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Lions Lost

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Smith Unearthed

Synopsis:
Joseph Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints

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Rehearsed Reading At Little Theatre, Western Michigan University     01 Nov 2008

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Historical drama

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Traction

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Genre:
Ten minute play

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