SHERI WILNER

Sheri Wilner’s plays include Kingdom City, Father Joy, Hunger, Bake Off, Labor Day, Relative Strangers, Little Death of a Salesman, The Bushesteia, and Joan of Arkansas and have been performed at major regional and national theatres including the Guthrie Theater, the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival, the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Summer Play Festival, Naked Angels, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, The Women’s Project, New Georges, Ensemble Studio Theatre, O’Neill Playwrights’ Conference and Primary Stages. Playwriting awards include a Howard Foundation Fellowship, a Bush Artist Fellowship, and two Playwrights’ Center Jerome Fellowships. In addition, she is a two-time winner of the Heideman Award/National Ten-Minute Play Contest, granted by the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her work has been published in over a dozen anthologies including New Playwrights: The Best New Plays of 1999 and The Best American Short Plays 2000-2001.  In addition, Playscripts.com has published twelve of her one-acts, which have received over one hundred productions all over the United States as well as in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Japan, United Kingdom and India. Sheri has taught several classes at ESPA and is a Visiting Professor in Playwriting at Florida State University’s MFA Writing for the Stage and Screen Program in Tallahassee. She has also conducted playwriting classes and workshops at University of California, Santa Barbara; Cornell University; University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater BFA Actor Training Program; and Whitman College.  She attended Cornell University and received her MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University.