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Nina Shengold is an
award-winning screenwriter, playwright, editor and journalist. She won the
Writers Guild Award and a GLAAD Award nomination for her teleplay Labor of
Love, starring Marcia Gay Harden. Other TV credits include Blind Spot,
with Joanne Woodward and Laura Linney, and SHINE Award winner Unwed Father.
She adapted Jane Smiley’s novella Good Will for American Playhouse.
Shengold’s play Homesteaders
premiered at Albany’s Capital Rep and won the ABC Playwright Award and the
L.A. Weekly Award for its Long Wharf and Matrix Theatre productions. Her
one-acts, including No Shoulder (recently filmed with Melissa Leo), Lush
Life, Lives of the Great Waitresses, Finger Food, Emotional Baggage
and others, have been produced in New York and throughout the country. Her plays
have been published by Samuel French, Broadway Play Publishing and Playscripts
Inc.
With Eric Lane, Shengold has
edited seven theatre anthologies for Vintage and four for Viking Penguin. Since 1991, she has been Artistic Director of theatre company Actors &
Writers, which performs in a 19th century Odd Fellows Hall in
Olivebridge, New York.
Shengold is Books Editor at Chronogram,
a Hudson Valley arts and culture monthly. Her stories and essays have also
appeared in Poets & Writers, Out Traveler, Riverine, Lifetime, New Woman, Femina, Living Fit, Prima Materia, Upstate
House, The Woodstock Times and other publications.
After graduating from
Wesleyan University, Shengold moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she worked
for the Young Adult Conservation Corps in the Olympic and Tongass National
Forests, planted trees with Olympic Reforestation Inc. and crewed on a salmon
troller in southeast Alaska. She now lives in the Catskill Mountains
of upstate New York with her daughter Maya. Clearcut is her first novel.
