Charlene A. Donaghy
- Instructor
- Theatre & Creative Writing MFA
Additional Information
Biography
Charlene A. Donaghy is an award-winning educator and playwright with plays produced and/or awarded from New York City to Los Angeles, in Canada, Great Britain, and Australia.
Hansen Publishing Group publishes Charlene’s collection of writings Bones of Home and Other Plays. Other publications include Best American Short Plays, She Persisted, Best 10-Minute Plays, Estrogenius, In the Eye, Louisiana Literary Journal, and others. Charlene is Founder and Festival Director of the Warner International Playwrights Festival.
She teaches playwriting, screenwriting, and fiction at the University of Nebraska Omaha’s Creative Writing MFA, as well as theatre and cinema in UNO’s Theatre Department. She is a founding member Boston’s Proscenium Playwrights and a member of New York’s 9th Floor Writers & Actors Collaborative, Association for Theatre in Higher Educations, AWP, The Playwrights Center, Honor Roll!, and The Dramatists Guild of America where she served as seven years as inaugural Connecticut/Western New England Regional Representative.
Learn more at charleneadonaghy.com
Research and Creative Activity Interests
New Strategies in Playwriting; Intersection of Performance and Found Space Aesthetic; Magical Realism in Cinema, Stage, and Literature; Improvisation Expression in Creative Writing; Adaptation from Page to Stage; New Play Development
Education
B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature, Vermont College
M.F. A., In Writing for Stage, Screen, and Fiction, Lesley University
Scheduled Teaching
Theatre Appreciation, Magical Realism Cinema, Anti-Hero Cinema, Writing for Stage, Screen, and Fiction in Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Additional Information
Biography
Charlene A. Donaghy is an award-winning educator and playwright with plays produced and/or awarded from New York City to Los Angeles, in Canada, Great Britain, and Australia.
Hansen Publishing Group publishes Charlene’s collection of writings Bones of Home and Other Plays. Other publications include Best American Short Plays, She Persisted, Best 10-Minute Plays, Estrogenius, In the Eye, Louisiana Literary Journal, and others. Charlene is Founder and Festival Director of the Warner International Playwrights Festival.
She teaches playwriting, screenwriting, and fiction at the University of Nebraska Omaha’s Creative Writing MFA, as well as theatre and cinema in UNO’s Theatre Department. She is a founding member Boston’s Proscenium Playwrights and a member of New York’s 9th Floor Writers & Actors Collaborative, Association for Theatre in Higher Educations, AWP, The Playwrights Center, Honor Roll!, and The Dramatists Guild of America where she served as seven years as inaugural Connecticut/Western New England Regional Representative.
Learn more at charleneadonaghy.com
Research and Creative Activity Interests
New Strategies in Playwriting; Intersection of Performance and Found Space Aesthetic; Magical Realism in Cinema, Stage, and Literature; Improvisation Expression in Creative Writing; Adaptation from Page to Stage; New Play Development
Education
B.A. in Creative Writing and Literature, Vermont College
M.F. A., In Writing for Stage, Screen, and Fiction, Lesley University
Scheduled Teaching
Theatre Appreciation, Magical Realism Cinema, Anti-Hero Cinema, Writing for Stage, Screen, and Fiction in Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing