AUTHORS’

BIOS

Melvyn Chase

After a public relations career that spanned more than thirty-five years − primarily as a speechwriter, Mel retired from corporate life. Although he continued to work as a P.R consultant, he returned to his first love: fiction. In 2005, a collection of his short stories was published by the Sunstone Press: " The Terminal Project and Other Voyages of Discovery". His first novel, "The Wingthorn Rose", a story of transgression, redemption and the power of love, is scheduled for publication in September 2008.
His first play, " Home Bodies", was written after the short stories and before the novel. In October 2006, he found the Moving Parts reading of the play a valuable learning experience. The audience, as well as the actors themselves, provided insightful, substantive comments that helped him rewrite the play, clarifying the motivation of the characters and creating a stronger dramatic framework. The play was recently analysed by the Bloomington Playwrights Project at the University of Indiana, inspiring further improvements which Mel will be bringing to a second reading at Moving Parts in 2009.

Jean-Claude Gerbeaud

Comme le dit Jean-Claude Gerbeaud, l’idée d’écrire une pièce de théâtre lui est venue à la sortie de la vision d’une très mauvaise pièce (il n’a jamais voulu dire laquelle). Il a pensé être capable de faire aussi mal et peut-être mieux. Ainsi naquit sa vocation. Depuis, il conseille aux personnes ayant eu le même genre de déconvenue, d’agir de même si le désir s’en faisait sentir.
Il a écrit plusieurs pièces: "L’engrenage" sur les conflits de génération en forme de suspens, "Les chats vénitiens" sur l’opposition entre le monde artistique et le monde policier, "Les lendemains désordre" sur les déboires engendrés par le jour du mariage et les jours suivants, dans l’entourage des mariés, "L’hiver des séducteurs" sur la difficulté d’être différent de ce que l’on parait être, "Toilettes" sur les divergences entre le milieu de la justice et les justiciables, "Happy-End" sur la difficulté d’assumer sa condition d’hypocondriaque et son désir de ne pas en sortir.
Il a également écrit un roman "Le temps de faire face" sur les événements, occasionnés par l’inondation régulière du cimetière d’un petit village aux revenus viticoles qui oblige les habitants à transférer leurs morts dans un terrain moins inondable. Notamment l’influence qu’a ce chambardement sur les souvenirs dramatiques et cocasses d’un héros malgré lui.

Mose Hayward

Mose Hayward is the author of the humor book
" The Explosexuawesome Career Guide", published in the United States and Canada by Andrews McMeel. He has written comedy sketches in Spanish for the last year and a half for Leonart on Spain’s national network Televisión Española. He was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Spain to study Catalan physical comedy at the Institut del Teatre, and his farce theatre creations have been seen in Barcelona, Paris and New York.

Yelena Moskovich

Yelena Valer’evna Moskovich emigrated to America as a Jewish refugee from the Ukraine (USSR) in 1991. Her plays have been staged-read and produced in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Boston, New York, Vancouver and Paris, as well as published in Emerson College’s Thread Script Anthology. Most recently she was awarded the Nicole Dufresne Playwriting Scholarship.

Timothy Jay Smith

Timothy Jay Smith is an award-winning screenwriter and playwright. He has won numerous prestigious competitions, including screenwriting contests sponsored by the Rhode Island International Film Festival, Houston WorldFest, and Hollywood Screenwriting Institute; and he won the Stanley Drama Award for a stageplay that went on to a successful off-off-Broadway production. Mr. Smith’s first novel won the 2008 Paris Prize for Fiction. He is represented by Shelley Power Literary Agency (London).

Eric Sanders

FULL-LENGTH PLAYS
THE PRINCE AMONG MEN : A comedic political satire about a school election.
HELIOPAUSE : Set in Rwanda before, during and after the genocide.
WHERE’S ANNIE? : In an act of revenge, Sarah Bitts returns for the first time in twenty years to her grandparents’ farmhouse to lay bare their secrets.
NAPOLEON IN EXILE : This absurdist comedy is based in part on Napoleon’s infatuation with The Arabian Nights.
FREE ENTERPRISE : In this comedy, two small-time con-artists become embroiled in a diamond machine swindle.
HETEROTOPIA : A 1920’s costume party reflects and refracts the struggle for meaning in the lives of three friends.
BY THE MASTER’S HAND : A disgruntled artist infatuated with the historical figure known only as the Spanish Forger seeks his revenge on the art world. RECENT AWARDS AND HONORS
The Joseph Kesselring Prize (New York 2006) : One of twelve playwrights nationally to be nominated for the 2006 award.
Princess Grace Awards Fellowship Competition : The Heliopause named a Finalist.
Edward Poole Lay Fellowship in Playwriting (2005) : Award issued by Amherst College to commission a full-length version of The Heliopause for the Alliance Theatre Company (Atlanta, GA)

Lance Tait

LANCE TAIT grew up in northern New York. His plays have been performed or have received public readings in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Denver, Toronto, Paris, the United Kingdom and at the American Repertory Theatre and Harvard University. He has an M.A. from Boston University where he studied playwriting with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Tait has been a visiting lecturer in theatre at Leeds University in England. In 2002 Tait founded Theatre Metropole, an English-language theater troupe, in Paris. In 2003, Tait directed his play, SYNESTHESIA, at the New York International Fringe Festival. It starred Stephanie Campion and Damian Corcoran. In 2007 Tait and Theatre Metropole moved into providing comedy videos for the internet. The first video, SEX IN ADVERTISING, was based on a comedy sketch first seen at Moving Parts. It became a cult hit and eventually averaged 1,000 views per day during 2007. The Edgar Allan Poe Project is a continuing project; so far 15 Poe short stories have been adapted as plays. In June 2007 Tait, as founder, producer and director of Theatre Metropole, signed an agreement with Crackle, an internet entertainment company owned by Columbia Pictures, to present Theatre Metropole’s videos on the web. As a singer/songwriter, Tait has performed solo in London, New York and Los Angeles. He has presented his poetry in Spain and Serbia.

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