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Desireé York was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Playwriting Award. Her plays have been finalists for the Ashland New Plays Festival, Futurefest New Play Festival, Henley Rose Playwright Competition and semi-finalists for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, CTG Humanitas Playwriting Prize, Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings, Forward Flux Production Three New American Plays and Trustus Playwrights Festival. She is also a member of the PlayGround-LA Writers Pool, LA FPI and mentor for WriteGirl.
Her work has been developed and received staged readings at The Garry Marshall Theatre, Rogue Machine Theatre, Dayton Playhouse, The Athena Cats, Theatricum Botanicum and Ophelia’s Jump Productions. Desireé obtained her B.A. in Theatre Arts with a minor in Women's Studies with the goal of using art for social justice. A Director as well, Desireé received a National Directing Fellowship awarded by the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. Directing credits include: LA Broads Female Playwrights Festival, Exposition Review Festival of Short Plays, Athena Cats New Works Festival, Assistant Director at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and Assistant Director at South Coast Repertory. Originally from a small farm town in Pennsylvania, Desireé and her husband put each other through college and followed their dreams to California with nothing but a U-Haul and their chocolate Labrador Retriever who hogged the bench seat for the entire seven day journey. |
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