Theater Faculty
Playwright, Director, Librettist, Teacher
(MFA, New
York University's Tisch
School of the Arts, 1984)
Heather's plays include An Almost Holy Picture, When Grace Comes In, Dream of a Common Language, Available Light, The Rivers and Ravines, Faulkner’s Bicycle and Rain and Darkness and have been produced on Broadway and Off and at such regional theatres as Arena Stage, The McCarter Theatre, Center Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Actors Theatre of Louisville – Humana Festival of New Plays, The La Jolla Playhouse and internationally in Italy, Spain, Portugal, England and Mexico. She has also written the libretto for an opera “The End of the Affair,” adapted from the novel by Graham Greene and commissioned and premiered at Houston Grand Opera and sold two screenplays “Rocket 88” and “Walking After Midnight.” She has also directed many productions, most recently Stephen Adly Guirgis’ “The Last Days of Judas Iscariot” and the premiere of “Two-Bit Taj Mahal” by Paul D’Andrea. Her work has been honored with a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize, three NEA Playwriting Fellowships, The First Prize Kesselring Award and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She is Professor of Theater at George Mason University and Co-Artistic Director of Theater of the First Amendment.
Course List:
THR 380 Playwriting Workshop
THR 381 Advanced Playwriting
THR 490 The Screenplay
THR 571 Adv. Playwriting Workshop
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