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Biography
JAMES STILL's award-winning plays have been produced throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia. He is a two-time TCG-Pew Charitable Trusts' National Theatre Artist with the Indiana Repertory Theatre where he is the IRT's first-ever playwright in residence (1998 - present).

He is an elected member of the National Theatre Conference, a Fellow in the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, and a two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He is also a winner of the William Inge Festival's "Otis Guernsey New Voices Playwriting Award," the Medallion for Sustained Excellence from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America, and the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award for Distinguished Body of Work. Three of his plays have received the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre & Education.

His plays have been developed and workshopped at Robert Redford's Sundance Lab, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, the New Harmony Project, The Lark, New Visions/New Voices at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Bonderman New Play Symposium, and the Telluride Playwright's Festival.

Most recent theatre projects include three world premiers in 2009: The Heavens Are Hung In Black reopened the newly renovated Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. The Velvet Rut premiered at The Unicorn Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri and the Illusion in Minneapolis. Interpreting William premiered at the Indiana Repertory Theatre.

Mr. Still's other plays include A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters for Cornerstone's Faith-Based Theatre Cycle in Los Angeles which premiered at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater, And Then They Came For Me, translated into several languages and produced around the world, including a recent command performance at the House of Commons in London in an event hosted by Vanessa Redgrave and a production by the U.S. Army at a base in Stuttgart, Germany.

Another of Mr. Still's play is Iron Kisses which premiered at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY and was produced across the country from Portland Stage in Maine to Company of Fools in Idaho. Searching For Eden premiered at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City and recently ran at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Florida and at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland. Since its world premiere at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Looking Over The President's Shoulder has had many productions including Ford's Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Vermont Stage Company, and Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. Mr. Still also wrote a commissioned short play called Octophobia for the Humana Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville which the editors of the Smith and Kraus anthologies have published in their Best Women's Stage Monologues.

Other plays include Amber Waves (the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.) which was recently produced in Tokyo, He Held Me Grand (People's Light and Theatre Company and the IRT), and A Village Fable (based on a novella by John Gardner) which was commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum, premiered at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, produced at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, and in Switzerland at the Zurich Young People's Theatre. Hush: An Interview With America was co-commissioned and premiered by Childsplay in Tempe, AZ, and Metro Theater Company in St. Louis and continues to be produced many times a season. Mr. Still's solo performance piece The Velocity Of Gary (Not His Real Name) premiered in New York at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and he performed it across the country. It was later produced off-Broadway, in San Francisco at New Conservatory Theatre Center, at Studio Theatre in Washington, DC, and recently at Tricklock Productions in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mr. Still is also a working director in the theatre and most recently directed productions of Doubt, Mary's Wedding, Becky's New Car, Rabbit Hole, The Immigrant, Dinner With Friends, and many others at theaters across the country as well as at the Tennessee Williams Festival in New Orleans.

Mr. Still’s work in television and film and has been nominated for five Emmy's, a Television Critics Association Award, and was twice a finalist for the Humanitas Prize. He was a producer/head writer for the series Paz airing daily on both TLC and Discovery Kids. For Nickelodeon he was a writer and story editor for Maurice Sendak's long-running Little Bear, and the Bill Cosby series Little Bill. He created a new series for Amsterdam-based Telescreen adapted from the Frog books by Max Velthuijs; and wrote the first Dutch-produced feature film for children based on Dick Bruna's Miffy books. Mr. Still also wrote The Little Bear Movie and the feature film The Velocity of Gary.

Mr. Still grew up in a tiny town in Kansas, graduated from the University of Kansas, and lives in Los Angeles.

List of plays by James Still

 * Love Me Some Amnesia - To premiere in 2012 at American Blues Theatre in Chicago


 * The Heaven's Are Hung In Black - Premiered at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC


 * A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters - Premiered by Cornerstone Theater Company in Los Angeles


 * Interpreting William - Premiered at the Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis


 * The Velvet Rut - Premiered at the Unicorn in Kansas City, MO and Illusion Theatre in Minneapolis


 * Iron Kisses - Premiered at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, NY


 * Looking Over The President's Shoulder - Premiered at the Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis


 * He Held Me Grand - Premiered at People's Light & Theatre Company in Malvern, PA and at the Indiana Repertory Theatre in Indianapolis


 * Amber Waves - (one-act version) Premiered at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, (full length) Premiered at the Indiana Repertory Theatre


 * Searching For Eden - Premiered at the American Heartland Theatre in Kansas City, MO


 * The Gentleman From Indiana (adapted from the novel by Booth Tarkington), Premiered at the Indiana Repertory Theatre


 * A Village Fable - (adapted from the novella "In the Suicide Mountains" by John Gardner), Music by Michael Keck, (one act version) Premiered at the Honolulu Theatre for Youth, (full length) Premiered at the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis


 * And Then The Came For Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank - Premiered at the Indiana Repertory Theatre and George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ


 * Hush: An Interview With America - Premiered at Childsplay in Tempe, AZ and at Metro Theater Company in St. Louis


 * The Velveteen Rabbit - (play) premiered at the Omaha Theatre for Young People


 * The Velveteen Rabbit - Music by Jimmy Roberts, Premiered at Theatreworks/USA, New York


 * Dreaming on Tiptoe - Premiered at East Coast Arts in New Rochelle, NY

Links Regarding Mr. Still

 * 1) [| Article from American Theatre magazine written about Mr. Still]
 * 2) [| Community Arts Network Article]
 * 3) [| Indianapolis Monthly article about Mr. Still]
 * 4) [| Ford's Theatre - Notes from James Still]
 * 5) [| Mr. Still's IRT Blog]