BIO

Joe Waechter is a playwright from the Appalachian Mountains. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University. His plays include Lake Untersee, The Strangler, Profiles, and The Memory Library. His work has been developed or produced at Playwrights Horizons, Ars Nova, American Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Perishable Theatre, The 25¢ Opera of San Francisco, 24Seven Lab, and Electric Pear. He is the recipient of a 2011-12 Jerome Fellowship from The Playwrights' Center, a 2008-9 Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship, the Weston Award in Playwriting, and a two-time recipient of awards from the Kennedy Center/ACTF at regional and national levels. He also creates work for other medium, including a headphone opera titled The Hoot Owl, an interactive chapbook titled NEGATIVE | SPACE, and a virtual reality piece called Antarctica. In 2010, he founded The Awesome Collective, an interdisciplinary company exploring new methods and vocabularies for collaboration in Providence, RI. Recently, he received a travel grant to visit Iceland and research an upcoming play about landscape, elves, religion and the beginning of the world. His play Dragonflies is available from Dramatics Publishing, and his articles have appeared in The Dramatist magazine.

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