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Writing Resume

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318 Ruskey Lane

Hyde Park, NY 12538

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765.366.6051

 dewatsond609@gmail.com

                                                                                                                       

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS  

Professor of Theater Emeritus – Wabash College.

Charles D. and Elizabeth S. LaFollette Distinguished Professor of the Humanities Emeritus.

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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member. The Dramatists Guild.
Member. Howl Playwrights, Rhinebeck, NY.

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FULL-LENGTH PLAYS (publications & awards):

VIC-TO-RI-A  (2023)

• Reading. Around the Bend Theatre, Hudson Valley, NY. (September, 2023.)

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THE BLACKSMITH’S BOOK (2020)

• Staged Reading, First Thursday, Howl of Playwrights, Rhinebeck, NY (March 5, 2020).  

• Staged Reading, Wabash College, IN (Commissioned scenes from The Blacksmith’s Book).

 

DAPPLE GRAY

• Norman Maine Publishing, Tallevast, FL.

• First Prize, Actor & Playwrights’ Initiative Theater, 1994 Playfest Competition, Kalamazoo, MI.

• Finalist, 1992 Ann White New Playwrights Competition, Ann White Theater, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

• Finalist, 1992 Festival of Southern Theatre, University of Mississippi, Department of Theatre Arts, University, MS.

• Selected Playwright. American Theatre of Actors.  Director’s Festival. NYC, July 2002.

 

EDEN CREEK

• International Readers’ Theatre. Winnipeg, Canada. Blizzard Publishing Company. (1996). ISBN 1-552-5-129-8. (available on Amazon).

• Selected Playwright.  ATHE Playwrights Program New Play Development Workshop, Chicago, IL. August 1990.

• Selected Playwright. Studio Arena Theatre, PlayWorks Program. Buffalo, NY. May 1989.

• Playwright-in-Residence. Department of Performing Arts. Weber State University, Ogden, Utah. October 1987. (a production of Eden Creek).

• Semi-finalist, 1987 Maude Adams Playwriting Contest, Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri.

• Selected Playwright. Poor Box Productions. Mumbai, India (Multiple performances - USIS Auditiorium, British Council Auditorium, Grindlays Bank-1998). Directed by Kaizaad Kotwal. 

 

THE NEWTON MONOLOGUES

• Contemporary Drama Service, Colorado Springs, CO (2003).

 

ORIGINAL MONOLOGS THAT SHOWCASE YOUR TALENTS, Allworth/Skyhorse Publisher, NY, New York. (2005). ISBN 1-58115-425-9.

 

SHORT PLAYS

 

DEWEY BOY AND WOOKIE (in a mad dog’s eye)

• Duo!: The Best Scenes for the 21st Century, Applause Books,  NY, New York. (2009). ISBN 978-1-55783-702-8.

• Selected Playwright. American Theatre of Actors. Director’s Festival. NYC, January 2002.

• Winning Playwright. 1996 New Play Festival, Ritz Theatre, Oaklyn, NJ.

• Finalist. 1996 Kernodle One-Act Competition. University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.

• First Alternate/Finalist. Mount Sequoyah New Play Retreat, Department of Drama, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR.  1995.

 

THE BLEEDING HEART

• Review Americana: A Creative Writing Journal, Vol.10, Issue 2, http://www.americanpopularculture.com/review_americana/spring_2015/watson.htm (2015).

• Finalist. 2007 Theatre Oxford Ten Minute Play Contest. Oxford, MS.

 

METER MAID McGEE

• Selected Playwright. 10X10 New Play Festival 2023, New Deal Creative Arts Center, Poughkeepsie, NY. April 21 & 22, 2023.

• Selected Playwright. Short Play Festival NYC, The Player’s Theatre. NYC, June 2022.

 

KINKS AND HARD KNOTS

• Selected Playwright. Break A Leg Productions, One Act Play Slam. Unity Center. NYC. September 2023.

 

AN ELBOW ROOM SHORT

• Contemporary One Act Plays, Vol. 5. Fresh Words: An International Literary Magazine. (2022).

• Selected Playwright. Northport Reader’s Theater. Long Island, NY. Nov. 13, 2023.

 

A DOG BARKS

• ArtAge Publications, Senior Theatre Resource Center.

• The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020. Smith & Kraus Publisher.

• Selected Playwright. TheaterWorks Ten-Minute Play Festival. New Milford, CT, June 2019.

 

HOPPER AND PETE AT HIGH NOON

• Selected Playwright. Fatherhood Up Close Festival, Springs Ensemble Theatre, Colorado Springs, Colorado. June 20, 2021.

• Selected Playwright. Morton Library March Monologue Madness, Rhinecliff, NY. March 25, 2023.

 

A MIRABILIS DAY

• The Best Ten-Minute Plays of 2020. Smith & Kraus Publisher.

• Northeast Theatre 2022 Short Play Festival, NMCC, Booneville, Mississippi. (Oct. 20-23, 2022)

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COCKLEBURS

• Poydras Review, http://www.poydrasreview.com (2015).

 

THE BPA DISRUPTOR

• Annals of Praetachoral Mechanics, Vol.2, SCQ, Science Creative Quarterly, University of British Columbia, Canada. (2015).  https://www.scq.ubc.ca/the-bpa-disruptor-a-short-play/

 

THE GAZING BALL

• Audition Monologues for Women, Meriwether Publishing Ltd., Colorado Springs, CO. (2011). ISBN 978-1-56608-180-1.

 

DIAMOND CITY

• CrazyQuilt Quarterly, Vol. 4, CrazyQuilt Press, San Diego, CA (1996).

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SHORT PLAYS IN PROGRESS

 

1-ACT PLAY

• FAR.DELS      (comedy/drama – 1 man/1 woman)

• TRACTORS AND TWIRLERS (comedy – 2 high school girls)

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10-MINUTE PLAYS

• KINKS AND HARD KNOTS (comedy – 2 men)

• KIT AND CABOODLE (comedy – 1 man/1 woman)

• WHEN EYEBROWS MEET (things get nasty) (comedy – 2 women)

• PAULINE’S HAIR EXPRESS (comedy – 2 women)

• A DOG BARKS (ArtAge Publications, Senior Theatre Resource Center

• TRACTORS AND TWIRLERS (comedy – 2 high school girls—10 minute version)

• THE EXAMINATION (comedy – 2 high school girls)

• RALLY CAP (OR THE SUBWAY SERIES) (drama – 1 boy/1girl)

• WHEEL WATCHERS (drama – 2 men)

• THE PORTRAIT (drama/monologue – 1 man)

• SHADOW DANCING (drama/monologue – 1 man)

 

MONOLOGUES IN ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS

 

“The Piano Tuner,” The Revised Theatre Audition Book, Meriwether Publishing Ltd., Colorado Springs, CO. (2009). ISBN 978-1-56608-165-8.

 

“Della” from Eden Creek, Millennium Monologs, Meriwether Publishing Ltd., Colorado Springs, CO. (2002). ISBN 1-56608-082-7.

 

“Abby” from Eden Creek, Millennium Monologs, Meriwether Publishing Ltd., Colorado Springs, CA. (2002). ISBN 1-56608-082-7.

 

Excerpt from “Hattie B. Moore,” The Theatre Audition Book, Meriwether Publishing Ltd., Colorado Springs, CO. (1999). ISBN 1-56608-044-4.

 

“Cracked Blue Pitcher,” CrazyOuilt Quarterly, Vol. 3, CrazyQuilt Press, San Diego,

CA. (1996).

 

“Hattie B. Moore,” The Book of Monologues for Aspiring Actors, National Textbook Company, Lincolnwood, IL. (1995). ISBN 0-8442-5771-0.

 

“Hattie B. Moore,” Twenty Plays from the New Play Development Workshop,

American Theatre of Higher Education (ATHE), Mississippi State University (1994).

 

“Hattie B. Moore,” A Monologue from Eden Creek. CrazyQuilt Quarterly, Vol 6, No. 1, CrazyQuilt Press, San Diego, CA (1992).

 

“Diamond City,” CrazyQuilt Quarterly, Vol. 4, CrazyQuilt Press, San Diego, CA (1996).

 

“Two Monologues from Eden Creek: Hattie and Doc Corey.”, Vol. X., Indiana Theatre Association. (1992).

 

 

CREATIVE NONFICTION

 

Book. Carved out of Breath. (manuscript under review). 2024.

 

Public Reading. “Shred the Files.” Writers Read. (In partnership with Carnegie Hall.) Changes: True Stories of Personal Transitions and Transformations. City Winery, NYC. May 19, 2024.

 

Essay. “An Intersection of Time.” Still Points Arts Quarterly, Shanti Arts Publisher. Issue 48, Winter 2022. https://www.shantiarts.co/SPAQ/SPAQ48/files/watson.pdf’

 

Public Reading. “It’s Story Time.” Writers Read/Read 650. The Ossie Davis Theater, New Rochelle, NY. April 7, 2019.

 

Essay. “It’s Story Time.” My Library: True Stories of Book, Nooks, and Furtive Looks. Read 650.  March 20, 2019. (ISBN 978-1-7326707-6-1).

 

Essay. “The Trestle Table.” Still Point Arts Quarterly, Shanti Arts Publisher. Issue 32, Winter 2018. https://indd.adobe.com/view/48a2096d-d5ae-48e6-a066-3773dcabba96

 

Essay. “Zero Degree Gravity.” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. https://deadmule.com/dwight-watson-zero-degree-gravity-memoir/ October 20, 2018.

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Essay. “Shred the Files, Savor the Career.” The Chronicle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education. www.chronicle.com/article/Shred-the-Files-Savor-the.241104. (Print Issue: September 15, 2017).

 

Essay. “Great Faith in a Seed.” Ars Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts and Humanities. Vol II, No 2, 2016.  http://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/21

 

Essay. “Intersection of Time.” Cha: An Asian Literary Journal. www.asiancha.com/content/view/2136/508/.  June 2015. (Nominated for the “The Best of the Net Anthology 2015.)

 

EDUCATION

M.F.A.  Department of Theater. University of North Carolina, Greensboro. 1979.

B.A.  Department of English and Communications. University of North Carolina, Pembroke. 1974.

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TEACHING AWARDS

Wabash College Honorary Alumnus, September 2017.

McClain-McTurnan-Arnold Excellence in Teaching Award, Wabash College, 2015.

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A complete Curriculum Vitae of Teaching, Directing, and Publications available upon request.

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