Colony Theatre Member Wayne Liebman

Wayne Liebman

Wayne Peter Liebman is a poet and playwright. His full-length play Transference was developed at the 2004 National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and was winner of the 2003 Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition. Other full-length work includes Brimful of Push, which placed 2nd in the Sprenger Lang Foundation’s 2002 U.S. History Play Competition, and Rowing to Canaan, awarded a New Play Commission Grant in 2002 by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Three of his one-act children’s
plays were commissioned by the Virginia Avenue Project and presented at UCLA, 1999-2003. His one-act adaptation of the Grimm’s tale, The Goose Girl, was produced in the 2002 MET Theatre production of Grimm, Too in Los Angeles. His one-act, The Sun Maiden, was presented by the 2004 Los Angeles Edge of the World Festival at the Autry National Museum as part of the L.A. History Project.

Wayne is the author of Tending the Fire (Ally Press) and co-edited an anthology of poems, Raising the Roof (Bombshelter Press), for Habitat for Humanity. His poetry and prose, widely published, have been anthologized in In the Company of Others (Tarcher), Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets (Sacred Beverage) and 14 L.A. Poets (Bombshelter).

He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry in 2001.

He is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild and Dog Ear, a playwright’s collective (www.dogearplays.org ) in his native Los Angeles.

12/2004