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JAMES STILL's award-winning plays have been produced throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. He is a two-time TCG-Pew Charitable Trusts' National Theatre Artist with the Indiana Repertory Theatre where he is in his tenth season as the IRT's first-ever playwright in residence. He is also a winner of the William Inge Festival's "Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award," the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award for Distinguished Body of Work, is a Pulitzer Prize nominee, and three of his plays have received the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education. His plays have been developed and workshopped at Rober Redford's Sundance Lab, the Eugene O'Neill Playwright's Center, the New Harmony Project, New Visions/New Voices at the Kennedy Center, and Hibernatus Interuptus New Play Festival at Geva. Mr. Still's plays include A LONG BRIDGE OVER DEEP WATERS (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize) for Cornerstone's Faith-Based Theatre Cycle in Los Angeles which premiered at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater; AND THEN THEY CAME FOR ME, translated into several languages and produced around the world including a recent command performance at the House of Commons in London in an event hosted by Vanessa Redgrave and a production by the U.S. Army at a base in Stuttgart, Germany; IRON KISSES which premiered at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and produced recently at Portland Stage (Maine), Illusion/Minneapolis, the Unicorn in Kansas City, MO, and Spontaneous Productions in Boise, Idaho). SEARCHING FOR EDEN premiered at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City and produced recently at Stages Rep in Houston; and LOOKING OVER THE PRESIDENT'S SHOULDER -- which since its world premiere at the Indiana Repertory Theatre has had many productions at theaters including Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Pasadena Playhouse in California; and Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk. Mr. Still also wrote a commissioned short play called "Octophobia" for the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville which the editors of the Smith and Kraus anthologies have published in their BEST WOMEN'S STAGE MONOLOGUES. NEW THEATER PROJECTS include the recent world premiere of THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA adapted from Booth Tarkington's first-published novel at the Indiana Repertory Theatre. Other new plays in development include THE VELVET RUT about a high school English teacher whose life has taken a dark turn; INTERPRETING WILLIAM about a college professor who shares an obsessive and uncanny history with a 19th Century frontiersman; NINETEEN SIXTY-FOUR about the Beatles first U.S. tour; and WINKING AT NIRVANA about Americans in Italy. He has also been commissioned by Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. to write a new play about Abraham Lincoln to mark the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth in 2009. OTHER PLAYS include AMBER WAVES (the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.); HE HELD ME GRAND (People's Light & Theatre Company and Indiana Rep); and A VILLAGE FABLE which was commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum, premiered at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, produced at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, and was recently produced in Switzerland at the Zurich Young People's Theatre and at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. HUSH: AN INTERVIEW WITH AMERICA was co-commissioned and premiered by Childsplay in Tempe, AZ, and Metro Theater Company in St. Louis. Mr. Still's solo performance piece THE VELOCITY OF GARY (NOT HIS REAL NAME) premiered in New York at the Ensemble Studio Theater, and he performed it across the country; it was later produced off-Broadway, in San Francisco (New Conservatory Theatre) and Studio Theatre in Washington, DC. Mr. Still also works in television and film and has been nominated for five Emmy's, a Television Critics Association Award, and was twice a finalist for the Humanitas Prize. He is producer/head writer for the series "Paz" airing daily on both TLC and Discovery Kids. For Nickelodeon he was a writer and story editor for Maurice Sendak's long-running "Little Bear", and the Bill Cosby series "Little Bill." He is currently creating and writing a new series for Amsterdam-based Telescreen adapted from the "Frog" books by Max Velthuijs; and the first Dutch-produced feature film for children based on Dick Bruna's "Miffy" books. Mr. Still also wrote "The Little Bear Movie" and the feature film "The Velocity of Gary." He grew up in a tiny town in Kansas, and currently makes his home in Los Angeles.