Oregon Art Beat
- Playwright Joseph Fisher
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- Joseph Fisher has finished his fourth and final year as playwright-in-residence at Stark Raving Theatre in Portland where they produced world premieres of his plays, Prometheus Bound, Tundra, Cupid & Psyche, and Faust. Us. Also in Portland, Joseph’s play The New House and his adaptation of The Seagull have been produced by Artists Repertory. In 2004, Joseph’s Play Thunderbird was produced at The Cherry Lane Theatre’s Mentor Project where he was mentored by the incomparable A.R. Gurney. Joseph’s plays have also appeared at Kitchen Dog Theater, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, The Cherry Lane Theatre, The Australian National Playwrights Conference, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Joseph is a recipient of the Playwrights First Award, the Charlotte Woolard Award, a 2002 grant recipient from the Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays, and is a resident playwright at New Dramatists since 2002. Joseph currently resides in Los Angeles where he is a screenwriting fellow at Walt Disney Studios.
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