| Douglas Post's plays, which include
Cynical Weathers, Somebody
Foreign, Blissfield, Forty-Two
Stories, Drowning
Sorrows, Personal
Effects, Earth and
Sky, Suffering Fools,
and Murder in Green Meadows,
and musicals, which include God and
Country, The Real
Life Story of Johnny De Facto and The
Wind in the Willows, have been produced in New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles, England, Germany, Austria and Russia. He has
also been commissioned to write screenplays for Warner Bros. and
NBC, teleplays for WMAQ-TV, and several radio adaptations of his
scripts. On three occasions, he has been selected to develop his
work at the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and once at
the O'Neill National Music Theater Conference. He has received the
L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, the Midwestern Playwrights
Festival Award, the Cunningham Commission Award and three Playwriting
Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and has been nominated
for a Joseph Jefferson Award and an Emmy Award. Mr. Post lives in
Chicago where he is a Resident Playwright at the Victory Gardens
Theater, teaches playwriting at DePaul University, and is the Chicago Regional Representative for the Dramatists Guild
of America.
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