Louise Schwarz

(Updated 3/31/2024) Louise Schwarz is a New York-based, Virginia-raised writer and educator, whose award-winning plays include Control of the Dirt, Goat Coaster, The Fair Hope Memorial, This Is Not A Project, Next Time On Spring Valley, Floor Show in the Sweet Life, When The Lights Go Out in Georgia, Beauty Pageant Massacre, and Sorry City, among many others. Her work has been produced and/or developed by Mark Taper Forum, Horizon Theatre, Stage Left Theatre, Cherry Lane Alternative, New York International Fringe Festival, Playwrights’ Round Table, Railroad Playhouse, Shakespeare on the Sound, Primary Stages/ESPA, Pandora’s Box, and New Perspectives Theatre, to name a few. Her monologues and ten-minute plays have also been seen at dozens of festivals and late-night pub showcases, and her one-act play Goat Coaster is published with New Stage Press. She has taught playwriting at Hofstra University, Oklahoma State University, Appel Farm Arts & Music Center, Northern Stage, and Hostos Community College. Awards and fellowships include: Edward F. Albee Fellowship, John Golden Award, Chicago Script Award, Blue Mountain Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, and the Marsha A. Croyle Award. Member: Dramatists Guild, Playwrights’ Round Table, Honor Roll!. Ms. Schwarz earned an MFA from Columbia University, an MA from NYU, and a BA from University of Georgia. 

WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: https://www.louiseschwarz.org/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/louiseschwarz
IG: @louises.97
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-schwarz-b1ab21201/

MORE ABOUT ME
My favorite thing to do when I'm not writing is obsess over other stories. Plays, novels, TV shows, nonfiction essays, documentaries, films, the stories of songs or history, the way people informally tell their own stories, and how to draw out people's stories directly from the source. 

WHAT I'M WORKING ON
I just started writing a surprisingly creepy one-act and am waiting to see if my instincts tell me to lean into the creepiness or take my usual left turn into mitigating comedy!

KEYWORDS
Drama, comedy, lesbian, queer, Equality, satire, tragicomedy, mystery, dark comedy, dramedy, bisexual, female adolescence, grief