Playwright
Ross Peter Nelson has been writing for the theatre since late 2002. He studied play writing with Amy Freed and Ben Yalom. His work has been performed throughout the California and recently appeared internationally with a premiere in Sydney, Australia. He has worked most closely with Playground San Francisco, which honored him with their Emerging Playwright Award in 2006, and with the Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View, where his work has appeared for seven consecutive seasons. Two of his pieces have been anthologized in collections by Playground and Three Wise Monkeys.
Awards
Finalist (top 10), 2008 Sydney Short+Sweet, Call Me Comrade
Winner, Mamet Write-Alike Contest, American Conservatory Theatre, The HAL Variations
2006 Emerging Playwright Award, Playground
San Francisco, Sexual Perversity in Año Nuevo
Best actor (Norman Munoz), Best director (Peggy Powell), BOA 2006, In the End
Productions
2010
In the End San Francisco Theatre Festival
2010, Yerba Buena Gardens (coming in August)
The Harrow Short+Sweet
Singapore
2010, The
Arts House (coming in July)
Return of the Frogs Pear Slices
2010, Pear
Avenue Theatre (review)
In the End Arclight One Act Festival, Arclight Repertory Theatre
2009
The Harrow Pear Slices 2009, Pear Avenue Theatre (review)
Shrink-in-the-Box, Pear Slices 2009, Pear Avenue Theatre (review)
2008
Call Me Comrade, Short and Sweet (Sydney), Newtown Theatre (review)
Allegorical Construction with Ectoplasm and Soft Cheese,
Pear Slices 2008, Pear
Avenue Theatre (review)
Cheese, Cubed Pear Slices 2008, Pear
Avenue Theatre (review)
Call Me Comrade, ACTOberfest, Secret Rose Theatre
2007
Call Me Comrade,
Eight Tens at Eight, Santa
Cruz Actors' Theatre (review, review)
Animal Planet,
Pear Slices 2007, Pear
Avenue Theatre (review, review)
Cobalt-60
Pear Slices 2007, Pear
Avenue Theatre (review, review)
2006
Sexual Perversity in
Año Nuevo, San Francisco
Theatre Festival / Yerba Buena Garden
Sexual Perversity in
Año Nuevo, Best of
Playground Festival 2006 / Zeum Theatre (review)
In The End,
Bay One-Acts (BOA 2006), Three
Wise Monkeys / Eureka Theatre
La Fortuna,
Pear Slices 2006, Pear
Avenue Theatre (review)
2005
The Myth of FingerPrints,
Pear Slices 2005, Pear
Avenue
Theatre
(review)
Chekhov's Law,
Eight Tens at Eight, Santa
Cruz
Actors' Theater (review)
2004
The Dawn of the Unelected,
Pear Slices, Pear
Avenue Theatre
Publications
Best of Playground 2006, Sexual Perversity in Año Nuevo
BOA
2006 Anthology, In
The End
Staged Readings
2010
Mounting Olympus, City Lights
Theatre
2009
Ezekiel's Wheel, City Lights Theatre
2008
Shrink-in-the-Box, City Lights Theatre
Return of the Frogs, Playground
San Francisco
The HAL Variations, American Conservatory Theater
Call Me Comrade, Camino Real Playhouse
2007
Imperfect Union, Playground
San Francisco
Bones, Dragon Theatre
The Harrow, Playground
San Francisco
2006
Sexual Perversity in
Año Nuevo, Playground
San Francisco
Allegorical Construction
with Ectoplasm and Soft Cheese, Playground
San Francisco
2003
Chekhov's Law,
Playground
San
Francisco
2002
Victoria's Secret,
Playground
San
Francisco
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