> Sandra Fenichel Asher

Sandra Fenichel Asher

Photo: Vicki Thompson-Jones.

Sandra Fenichel Asher's plays have been produced nationally and abroad. A Woman Called Truth, In the Garden of the Selfish Giant and Jesse and Grace: A Best Friends Story have all been honored with the AATE Distinguished Play Award. Across the Plains was selected for the Kennedy Center's New Visions/New Voices Symposium. Walking Toward America and Mariposa/Butterfly were chosen for development at New York University's New Plays for Young Audiences workshop and symposium at the Provincetown Playhouse. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant in playwriting, AATE's Charlotte Chorpenning Award for a distinguished body of work in children's theatre, AATE's Sara Spencer Artistic Achievement Award for lifetime contributions to the field and an Aurand Harris Fellowship and other grants from the Children's Theatre Foundation of America, Asher is also the author of more than two dozen books for young readers and the editor of seven anthologies, among them American Heartbeat: True Stories Told in Scenes and Monologues. Six of Asher's plays are anthologized in Tell Your Story: The Plays and Playwriting of Sandra Fenichel Asher. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, TYA/USA and Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.