Lunch With Books to Welcome Playwright with Local TiesPlaywright Sean O’Leary will visit Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library on Tuesday, January 29 at noon. Sean has written five plays, four of them produced professionally. VALU-MART, is the 2007 winner of The University of Alabama at Birmingham's Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award for plays confronting racial and ethnic issues. VALU-MART is also the winner of the 2007 Best Play award from the West Virginia Writers Conference and was a finalist in the National Arts Club's 2006 Playwrights First competition. BENEATH SHELTON LAUREL was commissioned by The Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre where it played for 20 consecutive sold-out performances and won a National Endowment for the Arts "Access to Artistic Excellence" grant. POUND, about the poet Ezra Pound, premiered at The Washington Stage Guild in Washington, DC and recently won the Ostrander Award as Best New Play of the 2006 – 2007 theatre season in Memphis. POUND has had five other productions. RAIN IN THE HOLLOWS received its professional premiere at Tri-State Actors Theater in New Jersey and has gone on to numerous productions as well. Between them POUND and RAIN have won or been finalists in more than a dozen national playwriting competitions. Sean's first play, WINE TO BLOOD was produced by Oglebay Institute's Towngate Theatre and selected by Brandeis University for its permanent collection of works inspired by the Spanish Civil War. Sean is a winner of the West Virginia Commission on The Arts Fellowship for Drama and is listed on The Literary Map of West Virginia. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and the Playwrights Forum of Washington, DC. Please call the library at 304-232-0244 for more information.
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