Assistant Project

MONICA BYRNE

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PRODUCTION HISTORY.

TARANTINO S YELLOW SPEEDO. (Full-length comedy.) World premiere in Durham, NC, TBD 2013.

Commissioned and produced by Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern.

THE PENTAEON. (Full-length drama.) Staged reading at Fox Valley Repertory in St. Charles, IL, July

2012. Commissioned and produced by The Collider Project.

WHAT EVERY GIRL SHOULD KNOW. (Full-length drama.) World premiere at Cordoba Center, April

2012, directed by Lucius Robinson. Commissioned and produced by Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern.

THE MEMORY PALACE. (One-act solo.) World premiere May 2011, performed and directed by Monica

Byrne. Site-specific play developed with resident artists at the Elsewhere Collaborative.

NIGHTWORK. (Full-length black comedy.) World premiere at Manbites Dog Theater, January 2011,

directed by Jay O Berski. Presented in Pinky Swear Productions reading series, Fall 2011. Workshopped with

Ravenclaw Salon and Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, Fall 2009.

POOR BALL. (Full-length drama.) Workshopped with Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, May 2010.

CUJO, THE LAST HUMAN CONVERSATION and MISS AMERICA 1988. (5-minute plays.)

Premiered at the Durham Library and the Carrboro Arts Center, September 2011 and September 2009,

respectively. Workshopped and performed by Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern.

JOURNALISM.

H OWLROUND, THE JOURNAL OF NEW AMERICAN VO ICES, ed. Polly K. Carl.

The City States, to be published July 2012.

The Black Box, June 2011.

F ANTASY MATTERS.

A Personal Apologia, a memoir of my relationship to fantastical literature. August 2011.

W ELLESLEY MAGAZINE.

End Note Only To Be There, a memoir of visiting Wellesley. Spring 2011.

Cover Story Writer Without Borders, a memoir of solo world travels. Fall 2009.

T HE STORY WITH DICK GORDON, WU NC, distributed by AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA.

Founding Producer, 2006.

S IGHTINGS, Newsletter of the M ARTIN MARTY CENTER.

Jesus Christ Pose: Yoga and Christian Fundamentalism, 2006.

A TOMICA.

Watch Out Now: Erik Demaine (profile of the youngest professor at MIT), 2005.

T HE MIT TECH (SELECTED).

The Inaugural Boston Cuddle Party (on the Cuddle Party phenomenon), 2005.

Divine Revelations (a strip club as seen from a Third Wave feminist perspective), 2005.

Top Ten Things To Do When You re Stuck in the Lab All Night (humor), 2005.

FICTION.

STORIES PUBLISHED TO DATE.

The Comedy at Kualoa in Electric Velocipede, Spring 2011.

Nine Bodies of Water in Fantasy Magazine, September 2010.

The Reclamation Rite of One April Nora Hess in Gargoyle, Summer 2010.

Five Letters from New Laverne in Shimmer, Summer 2010.

FORTHCOMING NOVEL.

The Girl in the Road, represented by of .

PERFORMANCE (SELECTED).

LITTLE GREEN PIG THEATRICAL CONCERN.

Monica/Mary Anne in The Memory Palace, directed by Monica Byrne.

Irene in Redghost, directed by Rachel Klem.

Dancer, Please Restate Your Answer in the Form of a Question, American Dance Festival.

Tina the Bride in Fistful of Love, directed by Jay O Berski.

DIRTY SOUTH IMPROV (DSI COMEDY THEATER).

Alumna of DSI Training Program. Member of long-form teams Caligula and Cranpa Hester.

RECOGNITIONS.

LA MUSE ARTIST RETREAT, FRANCE. Wildcard Residency, TBD 2012-13.

ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE/SLOAN COMMISSION. Finalist for Nightwork, May 2011.

ELSEWHERE COLLABORATIVE. Residency granted for a site-specific play, May 2011.

THE VERMONT STUDIO CENTER. Grant awarded for residency, March 2011.

THE DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL. Ella Fountain Pratt Emerging Artist Grant, 2010.

NORTH CAROLINA ARTS COUNCIL ARTIST FELLOWSHIP. Second Alternate, 2009.

MARY ELVIRA STEVENS TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP. For travel to Ethiopia, India, Fiji, Samoa,

and the Cook Islands for creative research, 2008.

CLARION WORKSHOP, UC-SAN DIEGO. Studied with Neil Gaiman, Kelly Link, Nalo Hopkinson,

Geoff Ryman, Mary Anne Mohanraj, and James Patrick Kelly, 2008.

EDUCATION and MEMBERSHIPS.

LITTLE GREEN PIG THEATRICAL CONCERN. Resident Playwright and Assistant Artistic Director

as of October 2011.

DRAMATISTS GUILD OF AMERICA. Full member since 2011.

FRACTURED ATLAS. Sponsored member since 2010.

YOGA ALLIANCE. Certified teacher of Body Mind Centering (BMC) yoga, 2007.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. M.S. Geochemistry, 2005.

WELLESLEY COLLEGE. B.A. Biochemistry & Religion, 2003.

FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. Private pilot, VFR. 2003.

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