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Nathan Sanders received the Oppenheimer Award nomination from New York Newsday for the "most impressive debut of a new American playwright" for the off-Broadway production of his first play, The Sugar Bean Sisters, at the WPA Theatre in New York City. Since that time, the play has been produced at various regional theatres across the country including Florida Repertory Theatre, Fort Myers, Fla.; Greenbrier Valley Theatre, Lewisburg, W.V.; the Los Angeles Theatre Center in California; the Hippodrome State Theatre, Gainesville, Fla.; Naropa University, Boulder, Colo.; the Studio Theatre, Sacramento, Calif.; and the Ocala Civic Theatre, Ocala, Fla. In the spring of 2003, The Sugar Bean Sisters enjoyed a critically acclaimed run at Company of Angels Theatre in Los Angeles. L.A. Weekly called it a "wildly funny script" while The Los Angeles Times simply declared the play "hilarious!" Selections from The Sugar Bean Sisters have been published in One on One: The Best Women's Monologues of the Nineties by Applause Books. The full script is published by Dramatic Publishing. San Jose Stage Company presented the Northern California premiere of The Sugar Bean Sisters in the fall of 2006. Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Va., presented the play during the 2006-2007 season. Other upcoming productions include the Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis, Ind., and the Water Tower Theatre in Addison, Texas. A staged reading of Sanders' most recent work, The Amazing Adventures of Della, the Dwarf, was presented in December 2004 at the Ivar Theatre in Hollywood. Tony Dow directed an all-star cast that included Meredith Eaton and film legend Piper Laurie. Sanders' one-act play, Sweet Jesus!, premiered at the Marsh, "a breeding ground for new performance" in San Francisco. Upcoming film projects include an original screenplay with filmmaker Hamlet Sarkissian and the motion picture adaptation of The Sugar Bean Sisters. Sanders studied playwriting with Howard Stein, associate supervisor of the playwriting program at the Yale School of Drama. He lives in San Francisco and is an active member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Theatre Bay Area and the Artists Development Lab at Z Space Studio. For more, visit him at www.nathansanders.net.
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