Laura Maria Censabella
Ensemble Member
Recipient: 2010 EST/Sloan Project Commission. Interviewing Miss Davis produced in EST’s Marathon 2010. Children’s musical O’Sullivan Stew (written with composer Frank Cuthbert) produced by Greene Arts Foundation, May 2010. An abridged version of O’Sullivan Stew is currently touring the NYC public libraries under the auspices of Urban Stages. Other plays at Philadelphia Festival Theatre for New Plays, O’Neill Theater Center, Women’s Project and Productions, The Working Theatre, Interact Theatre in L.A., The New Harmony Project, Belmont Italian American Playhouse (commissioned play Some Girls), the Pacific Resident Theatre, and the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College. Three grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts for her plays Abandoned in Queens and Carla Cooks The War, and her screenplay Truly Mary. Winner of two daytime Emmys. Independent short film Last Call (directed by Robert Bailey and featuring EST member actor Jude Ciccolella and actress Dana Dewes) in festivals throughout the world. Current Teaching: New School for Drama. Member: DG, WGAE, League of Professional Theatre Women, director of the EST Playwrights Unit. Graduate: Yale.
Elaine Devlin, Literary Agent: edevlinlit@aol.com
See the trailer for her film Last Call at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iddWgx4EwT0
Read or listen to her 2011 TheatreNow! Podcast interview at http://theatrenow.wordpress.com
Video
Filmed during rehearsals for Interviewing Miss Davis, Marathon 2010