Staci Swedeen
Playwright, Author, Actor

Ms. Swedeen, winner of the Arts and Letters Award in Drama for 2004, was also a 2003 New York State Council for the Arts grant recipient. She received a commission from the Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Sloan Foundation to write a play about Gerty Cori, the first American Woman to win the Nobel Prize. A Lark Fellow for 2002-2003, she was also a Dramatist Guild Fellow in 2002.

"The Goldman Project" was presented Off Broadway at the Abingdon Theatre in 2007, nominated for an "Ab*ie" and is currently being 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 2003 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 in 2003.

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 - EAT, Staci also teaches Playwriting at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. and is on the faculty of The Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven, CT.

As an actress, she continues to be involved in readings of new work for numerous theatres. Her lyrics were set to a choral work which premiered at Clark College in Washington State in March 2002 and was released on CD.

Ms. Swedeen, a native of Mount Vernon, Washington, currently resides in Sleepy Hollow, New York, with her husband, Chris Skelly and two cats - Abigail and Mr. Pretty Darn Cool.

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