Laura Censabella

Laura Maria Censabella is an American playwright and screenwriter. She has been awarded three grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts; two in playwriting for "Abandoned in Queens" and "Three Italian Women", and The Geri Ashur Award in Screenwriting for her original screenplay "Truly Mary". She is the Unit Director of The Playwrights Unit. [ [http://www.ensemblestudiotheatre.org/pwu.html ensemblestudiotheatre.org] Retrieved on February 20th, 2008.]

Works and awards

Her short play "Posing" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and "The Actual Footage" won the Tennessee Chapbook Prize [ [http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu9HhnbtHJCIBohRXNyoA?p=%22Tennessee+Chapbook+Prize%22&y=Search&fr=yfp-t-501&ei=UTF-8&fp_ip=CA&rd=r1&meta=vc%3Dca Tennessee Chapbook Prize award given] Retrieved on February 20th, 2008.] for Drama. Both plays are published in Poems & Plays. She has written the short film adaptation Physics for HBO's Women: Breaking The Rules series, and she has won two Daytime Emmy Awards for her work on "As The World Turns". Her first Emmy win in 2001 was shared with Hogan Sheffer (Head Writer), Leah Laiman (head writer), Carolyn Culliton (co-head writer), Stephen Demorest, Hal Corley, Stephanie Braxton, Jeff Beldner, Tom Casiello, Susan Dansby, Judith Donato, Lynn Martin, Marie Masters, Richard J. Allen, Judy Tate, Courtney Sherman, and Karen Lewis.

Censabella's half-hour independent film "Last Call" (directed by Robert Bailey) has been an official selection in festivals throughout the world, including the Avignon Film Festival [ [http://www.avignonfilmfest.com/ avignonfilmfest.com] Retrieved on February 20th, 2008.] , Other Venice Film Festival [ [http://www.othervenicefilmfest.com othervenicefilmfest.com] Retrieved on February 20th, 2008.] , Hermosa Shorts Film Festival, Sedona International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, and the Breckenridge Film Festival where it won the Best Short Drama award.

Education

Censabella's teaching experience includes the The New School for Drama, The Actors Studio Drama School (where she developed the playwriting program with Romulus Linneyfact|date=February 2008), Columbia University School of the Arts, Columbia College's Undergraduate Writing Program, City University's MFA Writing Program, The Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Summer Literary Seminars [ [http://www.sumlitsem.org/ sumlitsem.org] Retrieved on February 20th, 2008. ] .

She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Writers Guild of America, East, and graduated from Yale University.

References

External links

* [http://www.mtsu.edu/~english2/news/censabella.html Laura's web site at MTSU]
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