SISTER SISTER nominated for Edmonton's Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding Play
Performance at Kennedy Center's Page-to-Stage Festival. Sponsored by Acturus Theatre
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"When it comes to Northern Light Theatre’s mandate of dark and provocative productions that challenge audiences, Sister Sister delivers and satisfies." -- Vue Weekly, Edmonton, Alberta, CA
"Sister Sister by American writer Barbara Blumenthal-Ehrlich — another way off-centre discovery by artistic director Trevor Schmidt." -- Edmonton Journal
B A R B A R A B L U M E N T H A L - E H R L I C H
Full lengths have been produced at the New York International Fringe Festival, off-Broadway Theatre Row (Prod. by Tony-award winner Arielle Tepper Madover), Northern Light (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Overtime (San Antonio), Forward Flux (Seattle) Trustus (Columbia, S.C.), Trinity Rep (Providence), and more. A contributing writer to the national tour, THE GRIEF DIALOGUES. Plays have been developed in NYC at Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, Second Stage, EST, ARACAworks, Stella Adler, and Rattlestick, and regionally at The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geva, Victory Gardens, Route 66 Theatre, Collaboraction, Elephant Theatre, The Blank, Hangar, among others. She won the 2016 Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Julie Harris Playwriting Award, the Israel Baran Award, and was a runner up in contests that include the Sundance Playwriting Lab, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Heideman Award and Princess Grace Fellowship. Her play SISTER SISTER was nominated for Edmonton’s Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award and STILL LIFE was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and given honorable mention on The Kilroy List. A participant in “Pinning Our Hopes,” a nationwide celebration of art and activism. Plays published by Smith & Kraus' "Best of" anthologies for 2016-18. barbarablumenthalehrlich.com @1BarbaraBE
Full lengths have been produced at the New York International Fringe Festival, off-Broadway Theatre Row (Prod. by Tony-award winner Arielle Tepper Madover), Northern Light (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada), Overtime (San Antonio), Forward Flux (Seattle) Trustus (Columbia, S.C.), Trinity Rep (Providence), and more. A contributing writer to the national tour, THE GRIEF DIALOGUES. Plays have been developed in NYC at Playwrights Horizons, Roundabout, Second Stage, EST, ARACAworks, Stella Adler, and Rattlestick, and regionally at The Kennedy Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geva, Victory Gardens, Route 66 Theatre, Collaboraction, Elephant Theatre, The Blank, Hangar, among others. She won the 2016 Beverly Hills Theatre Guild Julie Harris Playwriting Award, the Israel Baran Award, and was a runner up in contests that include the Sundance Playwriting Lab, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Heideman Award and Princess Grace Fellowship. Her play SISTER SISTER was nominated for Edmonton’s Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award and STILL LIFE was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award and given honorable mention on The Kilroy List. A participant in “Pinning Our Hopes,” a nationwide celebration of art and activism. Plays published by Smith & Kraus' "Best of" anthologies for 2016-18. barbarablumenthalehrlich.com @1BarbaraBE