by Eric Lane
GARTH WINGFIELD'S other plays include Are We ThereYet?, Sunday Styles, Flight, Touching Howard There, Cha-Cha-Cha, and Ado nis. His work has been performed in New York, Los Angeles, and London. For television, he has written episodes for Showtime'S Queer As Folk and was a staff writer on the ABC sitcom Clueless. He lives in New York City.
ALEXANDER woo accepts responsibility for such plays as Forbidden City Blues (Pan Asian Repertory, New York, New York), Debunked (Triad Stage, Greensboro, North Carolina), In the Sherman Family Wax Museum (Circle X, Los Angeles, California), and Post-Coitals, Pre-Nuptials (S. F. Stage& Film, San Francisco, California). He is a graduate of Yale Drama and Princeton University.
ABOUT THE EDITORS
NINA SHENGOLD andERIC LANE are editors of nine contemporary play collections. Anthologies for Vintage Books include Take Ten: New Ten-Minute Plays, Plays for Actresses, and Leading Women: Plays for Actresses II. For Viking Penguin, they edited The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues, The Actor's Book of Scenes from New Plays, Moving Parts: Monologues from Contemporary Plays, The Actor's Book of Gay & Lesbian Plays (Lambda Literary Award Nomination), and Telling Tales.
NINA SHENGOLD received the ABC Playwright Award& the L.A. Weekly Award for Homesteaders, published by Samuel French. Her play War at Home, written with Nicole Quinn and the students of Rondout Valley High School, is forthcoming from Playscripts Inc. Ms. Shengold won the 1998 Writers Guild Award and a GLAAD Award nomination for her tele-play Labor of Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden, and the Shine Award for Unwed Father; other screenplays include Blind Spot, starring Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney, Double Plat
inum, and an adaptation of Jane Smiley'S novella Good Will. She is artistic director of theatre company Actors& Writers, and has just completed her first novel, Clearcut.
ERIC LANE is an award-winning playwright and filmmaker. His play Times of War premiered at the Adirondack Theatre Festival and won grants from the Puffin Foundation, Pilgrim Project, and Jonathan Larson Foundation and was an O'Neill Center Finalist. Other plays include Shellac, Cater- Waiter, and Dancing on Checkers'Grave, which starred Jennifer Aniston. Mr. Lane has written and produced two short films: First Breath and Cater- Waiter, which he also directed. For his work on TV'S Ryan's Hope, he received a Writer'S Guild Award. Honors include the Berrilla Kerr Playwriting Award, La Mama Playwright Development Award, numerous Yaddo fellowships, and a St. James Cavalier Center fellowship in Malta. Mr. Lane is an honors graduate of Brown University and is artistic director of Orange Thoughts, a not-for-profit theatre and film company in New York City.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Take ten II: more ten-minute plays / edited by Eric Lane and Nina
Shengold.
p. cm.
Includes index.
eISBN: 978-0-307-49159-6 (trade paper)
1. One-act plays, American. I. Title: Take ten two. II. Lane,
Eric. III. Shengold, Nina.