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James Still's award-winning plays have been produced at theatres throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. He is the playwright-in-residence at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, a winner of the William Inge Festival's Otis Guernsey New Voices in American Theatre Award, the Medallion for Sustained Achievement from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America, and the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Playwright Award for Distinguished Body of Work. He is an elected member of the National Theatre Conference and a Fellow in the College of Fellows of the American Theatre. Three of Still's plays have received the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education, and his work has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His plays have been developed and workshopped at Sundance, the New Harmony Project, the O'Neill, the Bonderman, and New Visions/New Voices at the Kennedy Center. Still's plays published by Dramatic Publishing include Iron Kisses, Searching for Eden: the diaries of adam and eve, A Long Bridge Over Deep Waters, Looking Over the President's Shoulder, He Held Me Grand, And Then They Came for Me: Remembering the World of Anne Frank, A Village Fable, Hush: An Interview With America, The Gentleman From Indiana and The Velocity of Gary. New plays include The Velvet Rut, Interpreting William and The Heavens are Hung in Black. In addition to his work in the theater, Still also works in television and film, has been nominated for five Emmys and was twice a finalist for the Humanitas Prize and a Television Critics Association Award. He is a producer and head writer for the series Paz airing daily on both The Learning Channel and Discovery Kids, head writer for a new series called Frog & Friends for Amsterdam-based Telescreen and writer for Miffy. For Nickelodeon, he was a writer and story editor for Maurice Sendak's Little Bear and the Bill Cosby series Little Bill. He wrote The Little Bear Movie and the feature film The Velocity of Gary. Still grew up in a small town in Kansas, graduated from the University of Kansas and lives in Seattle…for now.
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