Staci Swedeen

Ms. Swedeen is the recipient of the Arts and Letters Award in Drama, a commission from the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Sloan Foundation, and a New York State Council for the Arts grant. A Core Lark Theatre Fellow, she was also a Dramatist Guild Fellow.

"The Goldman Project" was presented Off Broadway at the Abingdon Theatre in 2007, nominated for an "Ab*ie" and is published by Samuel French. Her full length comedy "Three Forks" premiered at Florida Stage Theatre in West Palm Beach, Florida and was nominated for a Carbonell Award as Best New Work. "Three Forks" was also selected by The Charlotte Repertory Theatre to receive its “Best New Plays in America" award. In 2002, Ms. Swedeen was honored for her contribution to local arts in Westchester.

Her plays have been read or produced at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Stamford Center for the Arts, The Players Club, WestBeth, Nat Horne, Synchronicity Space, the Terry Schreiber Studio and Hunter College Theatres in New York City, also the Newman Theatre of Westchester, The Alliance Theatre in Los Angeles, City Theatre of Miami, New Jersey Rep, Main Street Arts in Nyack and the Gallery Players of Park Slope and Stephen Austin University in Texas. She was the playwright in residence at The Kravis Center in West Palm Beach for several years.

"The Sleep Seeker," a film she wrote and produced, won “Best Short Film” in the Westchester Film Festival and was the “Audience Choice Award” at the Valleyfest Film Festival.

She was awarded an international artist residency to attend the Fundación Valparaiso in Spain.

A member of the Writers’ Guild of America, the Dramatist Guild, AEA, AFTRA, SAG, as well as the Players Club writing workshop in NYC and Emerging Artist Theatre - Staci has instructed Playwriting at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. and at The Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT.

As an actor, she continues to be involved in readings of new work for numerous theatres. Her lyrics were set to a choral work that premiered at Clark College in Washington State and released on CD.

Ms. Swedeen, a native of Mount Vernon, Washington, recently relocated from Sleepy Hollow New York to Knoxville Tennessee with two cats - Franklin "Got A New Deal" Roosevelt and Mr. Pretty Darn Cool.

Representation: Elaine Devlin at Elaine Devlin Literary Agency - # 212-206-8160 or EDEVLINBEI@​aol.com