Carolyn Nur Wistrand
As a playwright, Nur Wistrand's work has been staged at the Nat Home Theatre, Harold Clurman Theatre, Playwrights Preview Productions, Open, Eye: New Stagings, and The Arthur Seelen Theatre in New York City: The Bilingual Foundation for the Arts, Los Angeles, California; The Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia: The Phoenix Civic Plaza, Phoenix, Arizona; and numberous educational and community venues.
Playwriting Finalist Awards include: National Hispanic Playwriting Competition, Arizona State University, National Women's Playwriting Competition, Famous Door Theatre, Chicago, Deep South Writer's Contest, University of Louisiana, National Leagure of American Pen Women (Drama), Washington DC, and National One Act Play Competition, NYC.
Her plays are published with: Africa World Press, Beauty in Black Performance: Plays for the African American Youth (2006); One Act Play Depot, Second Coming, Mean Molly (2003, 2005); Contemporary Drama Service, Before the Spanish Came (1995). She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, International Center for Women Playwrights, and BAFA International Organization for the Arts.
She has studied playwriting under Obie Award Winning Playwright, Leslie Lee and Feminist Novelist/Playwright, Sarah Schulman.
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