Douglas Post’s plays, which include Blissfield, Somebody Foreign, Personal Effects, Earth and Sky and Murder in Green Meadows, and musicals, which include The Wind in the Willows, The Kingdom of Grimm and Scrooge and the Ghostly Spirits, have been produced in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, England, Wales, Germany, Austria, Russia, China and South Africa. He has also been commissioned to write screenplays for Warner Bros. and NBC, teleplays for WMAQ-TV, and several radio adaptations of his scripts. On three occasions, he has been selected to develop his work at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and once at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference. He has received the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, the Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award, the Cunningham Commission Award, the Blue Ink Playwriting Award and three Playwriting Fellowship Awards from the Illinois Arts Council, and has been nominated for three Joseph Jefferson Awards, a Suzi Bass Award and an Emmy Award. Post lives in Chicago where he is president of Long River Records, has composed songs and incidental music for more than 25 productions, and teaches playwriting and theatre appreciation at the University of Chicago Graham School.
