John Becker
John Becker's play, Summit Meeting, was performed in a theatre festival at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., where it was awarded 1st place. He has had plays performed four years in a row at the Source Theatre in D.C. He has had a play performed Off-Broadway at the Emerging Artists Theatre in New York. He has also had plays performed at the Baltimore Playwrights Festival, the Writer's Center, Company 13 and the Run of the Mill Theatre (for which they won a Greater Baltimore Theatre Award), and the Human Rights Arts Festival for Amnesty International.
He has been awarded an Individual Artist's Grant by the Maryland State Arts Council for both playwrighting and fiction.
What's New?
The Playwright Zone recently had a successful run in the 2010 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington, DC.
"Clever and entertaining...a promising glimpse into John Becker's talent"--DC Theatre Scene
The Ghosts of Dickens will be a part of the Page to Stage series at the Kennedy Center on September 4th, 2010 from 2-3pm in the South Atrium. Please come out and say hello!
John has been contacted about developing a screenplay for a short film.
John Becker will be teaching a theatre class to underprivileged children through a federal Positive Youth Initiative Grant.
"I was very impressed with John Becker's work. He is certainly a writer to keep an eye on."
Cathy Madison, dramaturg at Arena Stage
"...Played with delightful slickness..."
The City Paper, on John Becker's The Last Sacred Place
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Puzzling Quotes of the Month
"Dick Cheney, the former vice president, said that President Obama went too far with the jokes at the correspondents' dinner. By too far, does Cheney mean like waterboarding a guy 183 times?" --David Letterman
