Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich

Plays include Romeo Chang, The Next Big Thing, Sister Sister, The Woman With Orange Hands, The Body Clean, Still Life, Boy Girl Boy Girl, Double Vision, Absolute Flight: A Reality Show With Wings, Big City, Hitting the Wall, Three a.m., Rox-N Miss Thang, June In White, Cleavage, and 4EVER. Her work has been produced or developed in New York at Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Rattlestick, Roundabout, Women’s Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Six Figures, AracaWorks, The New York International Fringe Festival (extended off-Broadway in the Fringe NYC Encore Series), and The Sumer Play Festival; Regionally, at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Trinity Rep, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Hangar Theatre, Victory Gardens Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, LA’s Elephant Theatre, Long Beach Playhouse, and Chicago’s Collaboraction Theatre. Published by Smith and Kraus, she won a Hangar Theatre Playwriting Residence, Capital Stage’s Playwrights Revolution, Bloomington Playwrights Project, the University of Cincinnati’s Festival of New Works. Additionally, she was a finalist or semi-finalist for a Heideman Award, Princess Grace Fellowship, the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Julie Harris Playwright Award, Phoenix Theatre’s New Play Festival, Reverie Productions’ Next Generation Playwriting Award, EST’s Marathon, and at the O’Neill, Sundance, Labyrinth Theatre Summer Intensive, HotCity, and Bay-Area Playwrights Festival.  She taught playwriting at Miami of Ohio, University of Massachusetts, and Brandeis University, where she was artist-in-residence. She is an affiliated artist at New Georges and a member of Boston's Interim Writers, The Accomplice.