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Mia McCullough’s plays have been produced in Chicago at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Stage Left Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists; and around the country at theatres that include Actors’ Express in Atlanta, InterAct in Philadelphia, Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company in San Diego, the Victory Theatre in Los Angeles, and Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. Her break-through play Chagrin Falls garnered many awards including the American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award, first prize in the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition, and a Joseph Jefferson Citation for New Work. Her play Since Africa was commissioned by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and a nominee for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play. It will be produced at The Old Globe in San Diego during their 08-09 season.
Ms. McCullough’s plays Echoes of Another Man and Taking Care have been published by Broadway Play Publishing and Chagrin Falls was published in the anthology “New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2001." Taking Care was also included in the Chicago Dramatists anthology “New Plays from Chicago.”
In 2004 Steppenwolf Theatre Company commissioned her play Spare Change which they then produced in their 2nd annual First Look Repertory of New Plays. Spare Change was subsequently premiered by Stage Left Theatre in the fall of ‘07 and was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award.
Ms. McCullough is currently adjunct faculty at Northwestern University where she teaches playwriting and screenwriting to students in the Creative Writing for the Media program. She has also taught at the Northwestern theatre department and at Chicago Dramatists. She is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, an Affiliate Artist at American Theater Company and a member of the Dramatists Guild. She lives just outside Chicago with her husband, son, and small menagerie.
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