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Members' Plays: Playwright Bio

Elizabeth Bruce / Elizabeth Oliver Bruce
Email	elizabethbruce@hotmail.com
Address	2814 5th St., NE Washington DC 20017-1301 USA
Phone	202-529-3143
URL	www.elizabethbrucedc.com
Specialty	Drama
Bio	Elizabeth Bruce, a native Texan, is a writer, arts educator, and theatre artist living in northeast Washington, D.C. She was recently awarded a Poets & Writers, Inc., Readings/Workshop Award, and has twice received both literary and acting fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Her debut novel, "And Silent Left the Place," published by the literary press Washington Writers? Publishing House, was the press? 2007 Fiction Winner. Set in South Texas in April of 1963 in a world filled with racial violence, "Silent" is a lyric tale of violence, redemption, and love reclaimed in the cruel, dry land of Texas. It has been nominated for the Texas Institute of Letters? 2007 Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction, is also a Finalist for ForeWord Magazine?s 2007 Book of the Year Awards in General Fiction, and was recommended by Small Press Distributors in 2007. Ms. Bruce has also published in The Washington Post, Long Short Story, Lines and Stars: A District Literary Journal, Writers on the Green Line: An Anthology, and other area publications. She was a selected participant in the inaugural Heritage Writers Workshop, founded and led by novelist Richard Bausch, at George Mason University, as well as the Jenny McKean Moore Workshop in Fiction, with novelist John McNally, at George Washington University, and the Rappahannack Fiction Writers Workshop. She has worshopped fiction with novelists Richard Bausch, Lee K. Abbott, Janet Peery, John McNally, Liam Callanan, Maxine Clair, Patricia Browning Griffith, Tina McElroy Ansa, Alan Lefcowitz, and Lisa Schamess. Ms. Bruce is a member of The Playwrights Forum, working with Ernie Joselovitz, and has has co-authored scripts produced at Adventure Theatre, Washington Ethical Society, and Sanctuary Theatre. She performed most recently with the Irish arts theatre company, Solas Nua, and with Sanctuary Theatre at the 2007 Capital Fringe Festival. Her play, "Sheila?s Iron," won first place in the W.F. Lucas Playwriting Competition, sponsored by Carpetbag Theatre of Knoxville, Tennessee. Her most recent script, "The Exile," examines the collision of the personal and the political within the narrative of an exiled dissident poet. A graduate of The Colorado College, she is a member of numerous literary, theatre and arts organizations, including AWP/Association of Writers and Writing Programs, The Writers? Center, Washington Independent Writers, Texas Coalition of Authors, Women Writing the West, The Writers? League of Texas, American PEN Center, The Actors? Center, and Alternate ROOTS. Elizabeth Bruce has long been Arts Director at CentroN?a, a bilingual, multicultural educational organization serving children, youth, and families in Columbia Heights and other neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., and Maryland, and with her husband, Michael Oliver, and Jill Navarre, she co-founded D.C.?s Sanctuary Theatre, Inc., in 1984. She and her husband have raised their two teenage children in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Play	Type
"The Exile"	One Act