Elizabeth Appell - Resume

Elizabeth Appell
Credits & Awards



Plays:

Confessions of a Catholic Child, workshop production, College of Marin Black Box, 1997; full-length play, finalist Writer’s Network, 1998; staged reading, Long Beach Playhouse, placed 5th out of 9,000 in Writer’s Digest Playwriting Competition,1999; French Speaking Rights optioned, Jean-Pierre Avoine, Qc, 1999; staged reading Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles, 2000; finalist, The Proscenium Theatre, 2003; finalist, Moon Dance Film Festival, 2003

Runaways’ Eyes, short one-act for handicap actor, First, College of Marin Short Play Festival, 1997; performed for handicaps groups throughout the county, 1997.

Moon Walkers, full-length play, staged reading, Sonoma Repertory Theatre Company, 2000; staged reading, Do Gooder Productions, New York, 2001; staged reading Actors’ Theatre, Santa Rosa, 2001; placed 9th out of 19,000 submissions, Writer’s Digest Playwriting Competition.

Journal of a Common Man, one-act play, judged Best Play and Best Actro, Dominican College’s Festival of Short Plays, 2003

Chalk Lines, full-length play, just completed November 2004

Squawk! A Comic Opera for Cabaret, produced as dinner theatre, critically acclaimed, alternate in the New York Fringe Festival, staged reading, Winters Stage, Nevada City, CA, 2005


Short Stories:

Swimming Toward the Butterscotch Man
Storied Crossings Anthology. Scribes Hill, Salem,VA, 2002

Tiger Rose
Finalist Writer’s Digest Mainstream/Literary Short Story Competition, 2000
Storied Crossings Anthology, Scribes Valley Publishing, 2005

Lost Language
Finalist, Writer’s Digest Mainstream/Literary Short Story Competition, 2000

First Place, Foster City Literary Competition, 2005.

Fragile Decisions, Wellington Blues, 2003


Warnings from the Bathtub, Snake Nation, 2005


Screenplays:


Screening Device
Optioned, OK Productions, Los Angeles, 1999

Orgasms and other Lies
Semi-Finalists, Writers Network 2003
Finalist, Acclaim Entertainment Screenwriting Competition , 2004

Easy Made Hard (Short Film)
Finalist, American Gem Short Screenplays
Warnings from the Bathtub (Short film)
Finalist, American Gem Short Screenplays

Lessons from the Gypsy Camp (Adaptation of the novel)
Third place in Pacific Northwest Writers’ Association Literary Competition 2004.
Finalist in Spec Spectacular Screenwriting Competition, 2005


Novels:

Dancing with the Dark, 1998
A Question of Forgiveness, 1999
Lessons from the Gypsy Camp, Scribes Valley Publishing, 2004
Elements of Betrayal, 2005


Novel Award:

Lessons from the Gypsy Camp, Rebeccasreads.com pick for best fiction 2004


Plays Published:

Confessions of a Catholic Child
International Reader’s Theatre, 1998