Barbara Schneider
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Productions of Plays:
- Verdict on the Shooting of a Police Officer (A play based on the famous/infamous Panther 21 Trial) Washington Square Church, New York City
- Turtles: New York Shakespeare Festival (Staged Reading) (Finalist for the SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE)
- Details Without a Map (Winner of the SUSAN SMITH BLACKBURN PRIZE) O’Neill National Playwrights Conference/Waterford, CT. (with Jo Henderson; Swoosie KurtzSwoosie KurtzSwoosie Kurtz is an American actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award. Her most famous television project was her role on the 1990s NBC drama Sisters...
; Peter Michael GoetzPeter Michael GoetzPeter Michael Goetz is an American actor.Goetz was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Esther L. and Irving A. Goetz, a construction engineer. Goetz studied at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and the University of Minnesota, from which he...
) Stage # 1, Dallas, TX. Actors’ Studio (Staged Reading) (with Ellen BurstynEllen BurstynEllen Burstyn is a leading American actress of film, stage, and television. Burstyn's career began in theatre during the late 1950s, and over the next ten years she appeared in several films and television series before joining the Actors Studio in 1967...
; Lane SmithLane SmithWalter Lane Smith III was an American actor. Some of his well known roles included portraying collaborator entrepreneur Nathan Bates in the NBC television series V, Mayor Bates in the film Red Dawn, newspaper editor Perry White in the ABC series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,...
; directed by William FriedkinWilliam FriedkinWilliam Friedkin is an American film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing The French Connection in 1971 and The Exorcist in 1973; for the former, he won the Academy Award for Best Director...
) Theatre Off-Park, New York City (with Jo Henderson; Robert ReillyRobert ReillyFor the former Scottish footballer, see Robert Reilly . You may also be looking for Robert O'Reilly.Robert Reilly is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly, for the 109th district. He was first elected in 2004.-Career:...
; Margaret Barker) (Optioned for Broadway by Warner Brothers) - Crossings Yellow Springs Playwrights Conference, PA. National Public Radio
- Flight Lines, commissioned by the Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Actors Theatre of Louisville - Festival Production
- Turbulence Philadelphia Festival Theatre - Annenberg Center
- Echo-Location Circle Rep (Workshop Production with Ed Seaman: Jeff DanielsJeff DanielsJeffrey Warren "Jeff" Daniels is an American actor, musician and playwright. He founded a non-profit theatre company, the Purple Rose Theatre Company, in his home state of Michigan...
; Amy WrightAmy WrightAmy Wright is an American actress. She has appeared in such films as The Deer Hunter, Breaking Away, The Amityville Horror, Heartland, Wise Blood, Stardust Memories, The Accidental Tourist, Hard Promises, Crossing Delancey and Miss Firecracker.Wright is married to actor Rip Torn and the couple...
) New York State Theater for Cultural Affairs (Staged Reading) (with Jon DeVries; Josef Sommers) New American Play Festival/University of California Humboldt State 1986
Conceived of, developed and directed:
- I. GEGENWIND (“CROSS-CURRENTS”) for the State Theatre of Dresden/Germany. (1997) In the course of a six-month residency as Artistic Project Director at the State Theatre of Dresden, she worked with a group of thirty young people of different backgrounds between the ages of 16-25 to create, write and perform a theatre work consisting of scenes, monologues, performance pieces and short plays. This work explored the often dramatic and unforeseen human consequences on these young people’s lives, their parents and friends, of the Fall of the Wall and the Re-Unification of Germany.
- II. IN FAHRT (“ON THE MOVE”) for the City Theatre of Leipzig/Germany. (1998) She conducted a six-month residency as Artistic Project Director at the City Theatre of Leipzig, resulting in the collaborative work of thirty-five young writers and actors (high-school students and nurses; electricians and mathematicians; computer programmers, medical students and drop-outs) exploring themes of love, violence and greed in the “New” Germany.
Studied with Ed Bullins
Ed Bullins
Ed Bullins is an African American playwright. He was also the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers. In addition, he has won numerous awards, including the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award and several Obies. He is one of the best known playwrights to come from the Black Arts Movement...
, at the New York Shakespeare Festival
New York Shakespeare Festival
New York Shakespeare Festival is the previous name of the New York City theatrical producing organization now known as the Public Theater. The Festival produced shows at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, as part of its free Shakespeare in the Park series, at the Public Theatre near Astor Place...
Writer's Unit and Cherry Lane Theater Mentor project.
Was a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York.
Teacher and Workshop Leader at Young Playwrights, Inc., New York: (1985–1995)
Led extensive workshops, including residencies, in New York City public and private schools, from inception of a play to performance; at the Coterie Theatre in Kansas City, MO; Little Theatre in Raleigh, NC, and many others. Conducted the Young Playwright Festival’s annual Teacher Training Institute weeklong series of all-day playwriting seminars.
Led workshops and seminars at University of Iowa/MFA-Playwriting Program.
Frequent guest professor/dramatist at the Berlin University of the Arts
Berlin University of the Arts
The Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK is a public art school in Berlin, Germany, one of the four universities in the city...
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Germany's foremost MFA-Playwriting Program (1996-2008).
Publications, Honors and Awards
- 1979-1980 Susan Smith Blackburn PrizeSusan Smith Blackburn PrizeThe Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is for English-language women playwrights. Named for Susan Smith, alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer.-Winners:* 1978-79 Mary O'Malley* 1979-80 Barbara Schneider...
for DETAILS WITHOUT A MAP - O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
- NY State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship
- Theater der Zeit (Theatre of Our Times), “The Heart of the Matter” a.o.