I’m a writer and teacher living in Los Angeles.
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In Development:
WANDERLUST, an old-fashioned musical with a global pop sound, takes us to an anything-goes Sydney backpacker’s hostel, where a homesick student, seductive surfer, bored influencer, debonair rogue, oblivious billionaire - and his put-upon assistant - lie, cry, and dance their troubles away!
THE RAVAGES
Listen to The Ravages: A Love Story, an audio drama produced by Theatre of Note.
”If you love your sci-fi with a sprinkling of romance, and enjoy gorgeously layered sound design, The Ravages is the best fiction podcast to listen to.”
-Readers Digest, 20 Best New Fiction Podcasts You’ll Obsess Over
THE PASSION OF McQUEEN
“Sewing” from THE PASSION OF McQUEEN
a new opera about the life, death, and art of the fashion visionary
Music by Kentaro Kameyama
Libretto by William Nedved
Featuring David Castillo
SCRIPTING 101: Storytelling
for Stage & Screen
Scripting 101 is a weekly workshop for both aspiring and experienced writers, with assignments for those us - all of us - who thrive under deadlines. Whether you’re working on a play or a tv pilot, a short film or a podcast series, we will help you find the structure for the story you want to tell.
SCRIPTING 101: Storytelling for Stage & Screen
Taught by William Nedved & Mark Saltzman
Reach out to me for more information or to enroll.
Mark Saltzman is an Emmy-winning writer who recently received two Drama Desk nominations for his Off-Broadway musical Romeo and Bernadette. William Nedved is a writer and writing teacher whose musical Medusa was recently developed at The Getty Villa with Deaf West Theatre.
“I used to think teaching was about conveying information. Now I know it’s about igniting conversation.”
About Me
I am a playwright, lyricist and screenwriter engaged with exploring the journeys that define us. I’m the co-founder of The Gift Theatre Company of Chicago, where I have premiered my plays Body + Blood (Jeff Recommended), Northwest Highway (2011 Steinberg American Theater Critics Association nomination), A Young Man in Pieces, and County Fair.
I wrote the book and lyrics for Medusa: The Musical, with a score by composer and Project Runway winner Kentaro Kameyama, developed by the Tony Award-winning Deaf West Theatre at The Getty Villa in 2019. Our The Passion of McQueen, an opera based on life, death, and art of fashion visionary Alexander McQueen, played a sold-out concert at Pasadena’s Boston Court Theatre in 2019.
My play Closet Drama, or The Dick Pic of a Twink was featured in the 2018 LAMBDA Literary Fest in Los Angeles. I wrote and performed in the critically-acclaimed Fact & Fiction for the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival. My short play Kid was awarded “Best Production” at Collaboraction’s Sketchbook 2009. All Tomorrow’s Parties premiered at the 2002 Los Angeles Short Film Festival. Against the Grain was part of the 1997 Young Playwrights, Inc. Summer Festival. Fate, an original musical, was awarded the inaugural 1997 Leonard Bernstein ‘Learning through the Arts’ Interdisciplinary Scholarship through Scholastic, Inc. The journey that defined me was the year I lived in Brazil as a Rotary International high school exchange student.
Past Projects
Body + Blood
“Very funny, fast moving and strikingly poignant”
Chicago Tribune
Nicholas Harazin and Cyd Blakewell
Fact & Fiction
“Great twists, artfully delivered”
Variety
William Nedved and Adam Silver
Northwest Highway
“Heartbreakingly honest”
-Time Out Chicago
Boyd Harris and Diane Mair