User:Yvanwilt

Early Life

Playwright, actress and singer-songwriter Yasmine Van Wilt was born in Orlando, Florida. Half-Quebecois, half American, she spent her early life split between Florida and Quebec.

Professional Life

Van Wilt earned her B.A. Honours, Summa Cum Laude from Eckerd College and then went on to earn her MA Distinction in Playwriting from Exeter University in the United Kingdom. She currently completes PhD at Newcastle University.

Van Wilt is best known for her theatre-work. Her writing has been described as 'hard hitting' by Art Not Oil and as 'deeply moving' by Effekt magazine. She is the founding Director of immortalis vox productions, a multi-medium performance company. Her writing has been featured in the Independent, Spoonfed, LeCool, etc She has written more than ten plays and was awarded the WordBridge playwright residency. She was also a Soho Young Writer (London). Her latest play, We're Gonna Make You Wholewas published by Oberon Books in August 2011 following the successful London run (and world première of the play). The play will tour globally in Spring and Summer 2012. Van Wilt's next play, the second in her four-part 'oil cycle' was read at the Theatre Royal Stratford East and is rumoured to be in development with a major London theatre. In late 2014 Van Wilt is touring with Unplugged, a musical disguised as a live music performance in which she plays Cajun singer songwriter Antoinette LaFontaine.

Van Wilt's first album Ex-Pat reveries was recorded with PBS but never officially released. She performed her 2007 world tour live on FYI Radio and at the Cafe de Paris, among other venues.

She now records music under the psueudonym Elle-A. Her upcoming single 'Amazing,' will be released to UK radio in late November 2011, and will shortly after-wards be released online.

Awards

Dreamers and Doers Award WordBridge playwrighting Award Honours Award Ford Scholar Pride Writing Award NCTE Writing Award Old Vic 'Playwright to Note' Soho Young Writer

Plays

We're Gonna Make You Whole 2011 The Gift: Part 1 2011 The Gift: Part 2 2011 Ted: 2010 Bright Young Things: 2010 She Killed Her Demons Dead: 2010 Gweyenfar: 2010 Lorca: 2009 Helen: 2008 Since My Last Confession: 2008 Waiting for Smythe: 2008 Qutub: 2007 Still Life: 2006 Subway Connection: 2001 Unplugged 2014