Barbara J. Lhota

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MOST NOTABLE PLAYS

STRANGERS - originally premiered at Brandeis University in Boston, Chicago premiere was with Jupiter Theater Co at The Athenaeum, published in Smith and Kraus Women Playwrights, The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus. This one-act has received over 17 productions.  (see Production history)

THIRD PERSON - premiered at the Huntington Studio Theater with Boston Theater Works. Receive recognition from The Boston Herald as one of the top ten plays of the 1993 season.  (see Production history)

ROMANCE - companion piece to Strangers, published in Smith and Kraus Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001 edited by D. L. Lepidus.  Finalist in the Love Creek Theater Co. Samuel French One-Act contest. (see Production history)

SCREENPLAY

THE LONG SHOT - full-length screenplay optioned by Elizabeth Klaviter Productions in Los Angeles.

PUBLISHED WORK

Strangers and Romance are published in a book edited by D.L. Lepidus entitled Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001, Smith and Kraus

Two monologues from Romance are included in The Best Male Monologues of 2001 edited by D.L Lepidus, Smith and Kraus

Co-authored with Janet Milstein, Forensics Series Volume 1: Duo Practice & Competition: Thirty-five  8-10 Minute Original Comedic Plays, Smith and Kraus

Co-authored with Janet Milstein, Forensics Series Volume 2: Duo Practice & Performance: Thirty-five 8-10 Minute Original Dramatic Plays, Smith and Kraus

Co-authored with Ira Brodsky, Forensics Series Volume 3: Duo Practice and Competition: Thirty-five 8-10 Minute Original Comedic Plays for Two Females, Smith and Kraus

Co-authored with Ira Brodsky, Forensics Series Volume 4: Duo Practice and Competition: Thirty-five 8-10 Minute Original Dramatic Plays for Two Females, Smith and Kraus

AWARDS

Mimi and Harold Steinberg for Hanging by a Thread

Honorable American College Theater Festival for Strangers

Finalist, Love Creek Theater Co. Samuel French One-Act Contest for Romance

Winner, Babes With Blades' 2nd annual playwriting competition, Joining Sword and Pen, for Los Desaparecidos (The Vanished)

EDUCATION

MFA in Dramatic Writing, Brandeis University

BFA in Theater Arts, Wayne State University

PRODUCTION HISTORY

FULL-LENGTHS

Theater                                   Company                        Location

Director

THIRD PERSON

• National Pastime             Symposium                       Chicago, IL

          Elizabeth Klaviter

• Huntington Theater          Boston Theater Works        Chicago, IL

          Jennifer Brown       

• American Stage Festival  American Stage Festival      Milford, NH     Jennifer Brown/Bob Walsh  (Workshop/Staged Reading)                        
• MIT Players                    Kresge Little Theatre, MA    Boston, MA

          Lila Stromer

GREENSKIN 

• Theatre Asylum              The Producers Club            New York, NY

          Len Duckman

• Heartland Studios           Backstage Theater Co.       Chicago, IL

          Ben Goldman  (Reading)           

MORBID CURIOSITY               

• Chicago Dramatists        Womens Theatre Alliance    Chicago, IL       Elizabeth Klaviter  (Workshop/Staged Reading)     
• Theatre Building              Writer’s Bloc                      Chicago, IL        
• Elizabeth Klaviter (Workshop/Staged Reading)
• Griffin Theater                 Griffin Theater                     Chicago, IL
• Lila Stromer (Workshop/Staged Reading)
• The Huntington Theater    Boston Theater Works        Boston, MA           

          Jennifer Brown (Full production)

HANGING BY A THREAD

• The Laurie Theater           Brandeis University             Boston, MA       

          Vincent  P. Mahler      

TABLEAU (Musical)                  

• Wayne State University    Studio Theater                    Detroit, MI 

          Al Fisher                     

THE NERDY GIRL & THE INTERGALACTIC DOG                  

• Rogue Theater Co.    Rascal Children's Theater            Chicago, IL 

          Dan Foss 

LOS DESAPARECIDOS (THE VANISHED)                  

• Raven Theatre           Babes With Blades                    Chicago, IL 

          David Woolley  

ONE-ACTS

Theater                                  Company                         Location               Director                     

STRANGERS

• The Black Box Theater     Kenyon College                  Gambier, OH

          Caitlin Cody                

• The Mercury Theater        Magelyn Theater Co.           Portland, OR

          Annie Kaiser               

• The Athenaeum               Jupiter Theater Co.              Chicago, IL        

          Kristy Kambanis        

• Phil Bosakowski Theater  The Sackett Group              New York, NY

          Janine Flood               

• European Repertory Theatre  Naked Earth                  Chicago, IL         

          Steve Longmuir          

• University of Virginia                                                 Charlottesville, VA

          Mark Hanson 

• Tribecca Theater Lab                                                New York, NY

          Tim Lord

• Madison Avenue Theater                                           New York, NY

          Lee Gundersheimer

• The Wang Center            Access and the Arts           Boston, MA 

          Nancy Politzer            

• The Ritz Theater                                                      Westville, NJ

          Randy Petersen 

• New England Theater Conf. Newton Country Players  Newton, MA

          Lila Stromer               

• Elliot Hall                       The Footlight Club               Boston, MA             Spencer Klein            
• The Kresge Little Theatre  Mass. Institute for Tech.    Boston, MA

          Spencer Klein            

• Castleton State College                                           Castleton, VT

          Jeffrey Flood 

• American College Theater  Henessey Theater (UNH)  Durham, NH

          Susan Dibble             

• Brandeis University Theater  The Crawford Theater     Waltham, MA

          Susan Dibble             

• Kenyon College              Black Box Theater              Gambier, OH
  Caitlin Cody                
  

ROMANCE

• The Athenaeum             Jupiter Theater Company      Chicago, IL

          Kristy Kambanis        

• The Mercury Theater      Magelyn Theater Company    Portland, OR

          Annie Kaiser               

• Madison Avenue Theater  Madison Avenue Theater     New York, NY

          Lee Gundersheimer   

• Love Creek One-Act Festival  Nat Horne Studio          New York, NY

          Faye Jackson                                      

• The Kresge Little Theatre  Mass. Institute for Tech.    Boston, MA

          Spencer Klein            

• Elliot Hall                      The Footlight Club               Boston, MA 

          Spencer Klein            

PRETTY CRAZY IN DETROIT                                                    

• Madison Avenue Theater  Madison Avenue Theater     New York, NY

          Lee Gundersheimer   

BEEKEEPER AND HIS DAUGHTER

• Nat Horne Theater         Love Creek Productions        New York, NY

          Kendel D. Smith         

ALL I EVER WANTED

• Wayne State University   Studio Theater                      Detroit, MI

          Barbara Kanady         

FAMILY PORTRAIT                  

• The Bailiwick Repertory  Directors' Series                   Chicago, IL

          Lila Stromer               

10-20 MINUTE ONE-ACTS

Theater                                Company                         Location   Director                     

PERSONAL PENCHANTS

• Links Hall                     Stockyard Theater Fest        Chicago, IL

          Sarah Mostad             

• Prop Theater                 Camenae Ensemble            Chicago, IL

          Ali Dornhagen            

• Provincetown Inn           Providence PlaySlam           P. Town, MA 

          Linda Posage              

• Devanaughn Theatre      SlamBoston                        Boston, MA 

          Deidre Purcell