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Finalist -- Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, 2002 -- Journey of the Heart
Rockland County Executive Arts Award -- Literary Artist, 2002
One of the NY Daily News "Top Ten Off-Broadway Experiences of 2001"!
"Best Solo Show 2001" -- Broward County/Palm Beath Times
          ("Casino" 1989 and "The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith" 2000)
Tennessee Williams Scholar -- 2000 Sewanee Writers' Conference
Winner - 2002 Rockland County Arts Award -- Literary Artist
Grant - Arts International* ("Casino" and "The Slope")
          (*Sponsored by  by the National Endowment for the Arts, The U.S. Information Agency,
          the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.)
Grant - Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Community Affairs ("Casino"). 
Grant - 1998 and 2000 Special Opportunity Stipend** ("Journey of the Heart" and "Casino")
          (**Sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the NYS Council on the Arts)
Winner - "Arts Happenings" 4th Writers Competition: Short Story
Winner - "Arts Happenings" 4th Writers Competition: Essay
Prize - "The American Dream" Competition ("Song of the Coqui")
Prize - The 1998 Chicano/Latino Literary Award ("Song of the Coqui")
Prize - The 1997-98 David James Ellis Award ("Journey of the Heart")
Prize - The 1997 Jewel Box Theatre national playwriting award  ("Journey of the Heart")
Prize - The 1997 Mixed Blood Versus America national award  ("Journey of the Heart")
Co-Winner - "Arts Happenings" 3rd Writers Competition: Short Story
Prize - Best Original Script, 1992, Northern Virginia Theatre Alliance ("Casino")
Prize - Sensitivity Awareness Task Force,
          Montgomery (County) Human Relations Commission ("Casino")
Prize - Little Theatre of Alexandria National Playwriting ("Casino")
The Dramatists Guild - member
BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop - member
Founder and former Artistic Director
          - Haverstraw (New York) Festival of New Plays, 1991-1996
Board of Advisors, T. Schreiber Studio - former member
B.A., Communications Arts, Fordham University
M.A., Political Science, The New School for Social Research
Master of Fine Arts, Playwriting, Brooklyn College
Writer-Dramatist
playrite@optonline.net

          Angelo Parra is an award-winning writer-dramatist-teacher and
free-lance writer with numerous prizes and almost 20 productions of plays in New York, Los Angeles, Florida, the Chicago and Washington, D.C., areas, Hartford, and at the Edinburgh International Festival. 

Accomplishments:
Finalist -- Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, 2002 -- Journey of the Heart
Rockland County Executive Arts Award -- Literary Artist, 2002
One of the NY Daily News "Top Ten Off-Broadway Experiences of 2001"!
"Best Solo Show 2001" -- Broward County/Palm Beath Times
          ("Casino" 1989 and "The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith" 2000)
Tennessee Williams Scholar -- 2000 Sewanee Writers' Conference
Winner - 2002 Rockland County Arts Award -- Literary Artist
Grant - Arts International* ("Casino" and "The Slope")
          (*Sponsored by  by the National Endowment for the Arts, The U.S. Information Agency,
          the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trusts.)
Grant - Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Community Affairs ("Casino"). 
Grant - 1998 and 2000 Special Opportunity Stipend** ("Journey of the Heart" and "Casino")
          (**Sponsored by the New York Foundation for the Arts and the NYS Council on the Arts)
Winner - "Arts Happenings" 4th Writers Competition: Short Story
Winner - "Arts Happenings" 4th Writers Competition: Essay
Prize - "The American Dream" Competition ("Song of the Coqui")
Prize - The 1998 Chicano/Latino Literary Award ("Song of the Coqui")
Prize - The 1997-98 David James Ellis Award ("Journey of the Heart")
Prize - The 1997 Jewel Box Theatre national playwriting award  ("Journey of the Heart")
Prize - The 1997 Mixed Blood Versus America national award  ("Journey of the Heart")
Co-Winner - "Arts Happenings" 3rd Writers Competition: Short Story
Prize - Best Original Script, 1992, Northern Virginia Theatre Alliance ("Casino")
Prize - Sensitivity Awareness Task Force,
          Montgomery (County) Human Relations Commission ("Casino")
Prize - Little Theatre of Alexandria National Playwriting ("Casino")
The Dramatists Guild - member
BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Librettists Workshop - member
Founder and former Artistic Director
          - Haverstraw (New York) Festival of New Plays, 1991-1996
Board of Advisors, T. Schreiber Studio - former member
B.A., Communications Arts, Fordham University
M.A., Political Science, The New School for Social Research
Master of Fine Arts, Playwriting, Brooklyn College
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This page was last updated on: October 16, 2006