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A Resident Playwright since Fall 2006, Will Dunne is the author of "How I Became An Interesting Person," "Love and Drowning," and "Hotel Desperado" -- each selected for presentation at the US National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center (1996-1998). "How I Became An Interesting Person" also received a Charles MacArthur Fellowship for comedy and was later presented at the Australian National Playwrights Conference and in Croatian translation at the National Theatre of Istria. In Winter 2009, the play receives its first full production as part of the 30th Anniversary season of Chicago Dramatists. "Hotel Desperado" was presented in Russian translation at the Moscow Theatre Union's annual festival of new plays. In partnership with Chicago Dramatists, Mr. Dunne's comedy "Deep Gardens" was produced at Chicago's Second City (2005). His plays "Moonrise" (2000) and "Good Mornng, Romeo" (2007) were finalists for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville. West Coast productions of his work -- "Eleventh Hour," "I Married a Werewolf," "Between Quakes," and "The Bridge" -- received four Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, two DramaLogue Playwriting Awards, and a Best-of-Year mention from the San Francisco Examiner. Mr. Dunne's book "The Dramatic Writer's Companion: Tools to Develop Characters, Cause Scenes, and Build Stories" is being published by the University of Chicago Press and will be released in March 2009.
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