Bekah Brunstetter joins CAMP WANATACHI

The incredible playwright Bekah Brunstetter has joined the CAMP WANATACHI family! She has come on board to collaborate on the book with Natalie Weiss. Check out her amazing blog at www.bekahbrunstetter.com.

Bekah Brunstetter is proud to be the 2009 playwright in residence at Ars Nova. She received her BA (Theater/Fiction Writing) from UNC Chapel Hill in 2004. As of May 2007, she is a proud recipient of an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the New School for Drama. Her plays include: OORAH! (Ars Nova outloud reading series, dir, Leigh Silverman; to premiere in London, the Finborough Theater, May 2009), TO NINEVEH (NY Innovative Theater Award for Best new full length play, 2006) SICK (winner, Sam French short play festival 2006), GREEN (finalist, Alliance Theater’s Kendeda Competition; national finalist, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival; Semi-finalst, O’Neill 2007), SPACE (semi-finalist, Princess Grace Award 2007) I USED TO WRITE ON WALLS (published and licensed by Samuel French) FAT KIDS ON FIRE (licensed by Playscripts, Inc), YOU MAY GO NOW: A MARRIAGE PLAY (nominee, Cherry Lane Mentorship, 2008l semi-finalist, O’Neill 2008, wiiner, 2008 NYIT award for best new Full Length Play (Babel Theater Project), ARMS (Finalist, Heidemann Award, 2007; published by Smith and Krauss), LE FOU (The Atlantic Acting school), HAPPY BIRTHDAY/ I’M DEAD (Samuel French Short Play festival Finalist, 2007), MISS LILLY GETS BONED (nominee, 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Award), CELEBRITY , and TORCH NUMBER 2 (SOHO Think Tank.), and FUCKING ART (winner, Sam French Short play Festival 2008.) . Her plays have been read and produced by the Babel Theatre Project, The Rattlestick Playwright’s Theater, the Ohio Theater (Think tank), NYU, Centenary Stage, NC New Voices, The New School for Drama, Working Man’s Clothes, Flux Theatre Ensemble, Phare Play Productions, Old Vic/ New Voices, Boston Theatre Works, Manhattan Theatre Source, SPF, The Alliance Theater, and The Atlantic (Acting School.) Her plays are published by Sam French, Playscripts, Original Works, and Smith and Krauss. In New York, she serves as the director of New Play Development for Working Man’s Clothes Productions. She is a member of the Ars Nova play group, the Playwright’s Center, At Play Productions, and the Dramatist’s Guild. She is also a proud new member of the Women’s Project writer’s Lab. Bekah lives in Williamsburg with her bikes, Roberta and Tony, and her cat, the Baby Kitty.