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Sandra Fenichel Asher's plays have been produced nationally and abroad; more than two dozen have been published, including A Woman Called Truth, In the Garden of the Selfish Giant and Jesse and Grace: A Best Friends Story, all of which have received the AATE Distinguished Play Award. Asher is also a recipient of an NEA fellowship grant in playwriting, the New England Theatre Conference's Aurand Harris Award, the Joseph Campbell Memorial Award, AATE's Charlotte Chorpenning Award for a distinguished body of work in children's theatre and an Aurand Harris Fellowship grant from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America. Her work has been selected for the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices Symposium, the Indiana Repertory Theatre/Bonderman National Playwriting Symposium and NYU's New Plays for Young Audiences workshop at the Provincetown Playhouse. Asher is also the author of 25 books and editor of five fiction anthologies. Six of her plays are featured in Tell Your Story: The Plays and Playwriting of Sandra Fenichel Asher. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild and co-founder of the America Writes for Kids website. Visit her on-line at usaplays4kids.drury.edu/playwrights/asher.
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