MARTHA PATTERSON
Playwright, poet, essayist, & fiction author

PUBLICATIONS IN JOURNALS & ANTHOLOGIES (and one short story collection)
2020-2025
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Finishing Line Press (full-length story collection “Small Acts of Magic”); Vilas Avenue Vol. 7 (poem); Fresh Words: HELLO GODOT! Vol. 5 Anthology (play); Teach.Write. Journal of Teaching (essay); Glacehouse Books anthology; Masque & Spectacle journal (play); Courtship of Winds journal; Rivanna Review (short story & a book review); 'Hello Godot! Volume 2' anthology (play); Molecule Literary Magazine; Int'l. Centre for Women Playwrights anthologies; WE-US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters anthology; Fleas On the Dog journal; Tangled Locks Journal; For Page & Screen Magazine; Fresh Words Magazine; Canyon Voices journal; Jerry Jazz Musician magazine (poetry); anthology “Crossing the Tees,” Sixth Element Publishing journal(Australia); New Reader Magazine; Next Stage Press (publication of full-length THE FOUR SISTERS OF BAKERSFIELD)
2013-2019
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The Grande Dame Literary Journal; The Red Penguin’s romance anthology “between the covers”; Cathexis Northwest Press journal; Wingless Dreamer; Grattan Street Press anthology, Melbourne, Australia; Songs of Eretz; Uncomfortable Revolution; Variant Literature anthology; Swallow Press anthology; Applause Theatre & Cinema Books; Fleas on the Dog; In Parentheses; Silver Birch Press; Syndrome Magazine; In Case of Emergency Press anthology; The Pointed Circle Journal; Afro-Hispanic Review; Pioneer Drama Service; Silver Birch Press anthology; The Sheepshead Review (U. of Wisconsin)
PRODUCTIONS
2023
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One-act comedy TALKING TO STRANGERS @ Bunbury Players, upstate NY, Jan. 2023.
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Monologue A WINTER DEATH @ Shiny Unicorn Productions, YouTube, winter 2023.
2022
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Monologue THE LONELY MONSTER @ New City Players, Los Angeles, October 2022.
2021
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Monologue THE VALUE OF THE DADO, @ Put A Woman On A Pedestal, StatueFest IV, NYC.
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THE HELL OF A GLUTTON @ New Deal’s “March Minute Monologue Challenge,” YouTube.
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Monologue A SMALL REQUEST @ Loud Voices Silent Streets, U.K., winter 2021.
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One-act A WOMAN IN NEED @ Scribe Stages' "Crime Plays." Los Angeles, Jan. 2021.
2020
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Filmed monologue production of A DEALBREAKER @ Theze Guyz Prods., UK, fall 2020.
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Gallery video display of monologue AMBER - A RECOGNITION OF BIRDS @ Engage Art Contest, Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Monologue FINDING ONESELF @ podcast @ The Hub, Somerset, U.K.
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Monologue A DEALBREAKER @ Nomad Theatre Company, Bloomington, Illinois.
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Full-length WITH EYES CLOSED @ Jan McArt’s New Play Reading Series, Boca Raton, Florida.
2019 and earlier
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Over 100 theatrical productions Off-Off-Broadway and @ regional theatres, including Laughing Pig, Arizona; Sam French Green Room Reading Series, Hollywood; Bread & Roses Theatre, London; She Speaks Festival, Canada; The Actors’ Studio of Newburyport, Mass.; Kauai Shorts, Hawaii; Love Creek Prods., NYC; Image Theater, Lowell, Mass.; Boston Center for the Arts.
AWARDS
Awarded $10,000 grant, Dramatists Guild, Dec. 2017.
Awarded $1,000 grant, PEN America Writer’s Fund, Oct. 2017.
Awarded $1,500 grant, Massachusetts Theatre Benevolent Fund, June, 2020.
Awarded $5,000 grant, Artist Relief, Sept. 2020.
Awarded $1,500 grant, Authors League Fund, July 2021.
Awarded $1,500 grant, Massachusetts Theatre Benevolent Fund, Jan. 2022.
Awarded $500 grant, Dramatists Guild Fund Bridge Grant, Jan. 2023.
Awarded $1,500 grant, Massachusetts Theatre Benevolent Fund, May/July 2023.
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