Norris

Author Biography

• Bonnie Culver, Wilkes University

  Bonnie Culver is the co-founder and Director of the Wilkes University Low Residency Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. Her twenty-plus plays have been produced by community theatres, regional, university, and equity companies from NY to LA. In 2004, her play Sniper won the New Jersey Arts Council Perry Award for Excellence in the Production of an Original Play. Sniper completed a first class equity showcase at Center Stage, NYC and in 2006 Sniper was included in the Richard and Betty Burdick National Play reading series at Florida Studio Theatres that showcases the best in contemporary American theatre. Other Culver plays that received equity productions were Accident, Lifelines, and Group S.O.S. (male and female versions). Two of her screenplays have been optioned, including one by Marlee Matlin’s film company, Solo One. She is an advisory board member of the Norman Mailer Society and Etruscan Press. In 2010, she was elected to the Board of Directors of (AWP) Association of Writers and Writing Programs. She holds an MA and PhD from Binghamton University. Currently, she is the president of the James Jones Society and a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.