30-60-90: A daily writing practice

The 30/60/90 project is powered by daily writing prompts, offered by local and national writers, lawyers, yogis, musicians, athletes, and artists -- each of whom also has some kind of daily practice.

Emily Cicchini is still writing after all these years. She's also doing things to promote arts alliances, arts education and the plight of women playwrights worldwide. She's playwright in residence at the Pollyanna Theatre Company (http://www.pollytheatre.org) where her new play Duckie Sees the World will premiere in August. See more at www.emilycicchini.com.

Kristoffer Diaz is a playwright/educator living and working in Brooklyn, New York.

Dan Dietz's plays include Dirigible, Blind Horses, Tilt Angel, tempOdyssey, Americamisfit, and The Sandreckoner. They have been developed and/or produced at the Kennedy Center, the Public Theater, the Guthrie Theater, CenterStage, the Playwrights' Center, the Summer Play Festival (NYC), Studio Theatre (Wash, DC), and Salvage Vanguard Theater (Austin, TX), among others. tempOdyssey received a rolling world premiere from the National New Play Network in 2006-07, and was named a finalist for the 2007 PEN USA Literary Award in Drama. Dietz has been honored with a James A. Michener Fellowship, a Josephine Bay Paul Fellowship, and the Austin Critics Table Award for Best New Play. He has been a finalist for the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville's National Ten Minute Play Contest four times; his short play Trash Anthem received the Heideman Award in 2003. His work has been published by Samuel French, Dramatists Play Service, Stage & Screen, Smith & Krauss, and Heinemann. Dietz was recently awarded an NEA/TCG Theatre Residency with Salvage Vanguard Theater to develop his new play, The Difference Engine.

Jennifer Haley is a Los Angeles-based playwright whose plays include Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom, Gingerbreadhouse, and Dreampuffs of War. Her work has been presented and developed at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays, Summer Play Festival and hotINK in New York City, Annex Theatre in Seattle, and Refraction Arts at the Blue Theater in Austin. Ms. Haley holds an MFA in Playwriting from Brown University, where she was awarded the Weston Award for Drama. She is a 2008 resident of the MacDowell Colony, and will be developing a new play this summer at PlayPenn in Philadelphia.

Molly Rice's plays have been developed and produced in Austin, Dallas, Providence, Ithaca, Montana, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Aspen, and New York (Clubbed Thumb, Atlantic Theater, Women's Project, Mint Theater, Drilling Company, New Georges). Publications: Heinemann Press, the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Press, LMDA, Salvage Vanguard Press, Perishable Press, Austin Script Works Press, Austin Chronicle; upcoming publications in American Theater Magazine, Kenyon Review.com, and DEVICE. Residencies: Missoula Colony (2007), Voice and Vision (2006), Hangar Theater (2005). Awards: Weston Award for Graduate Playwriting (Brown University); winner, Women's International Playwriting Festival (production/ publication at Perishable Theater, Providence RI); and nominations for the Kesselring Fellowship, Cherry Lane Mentor Project, and Outstanding Original Short Play (New York Innovative Theater Awards). She has been a finalist for New Dramatists (2006-2008), the Actors Theater of Louisville Heidemann Award (2003, 2007), the O'Neill Playwrights' Conference (2006, semifinalist 2007), and the Princess Grace Award (2004). Recent projects: Blood: Of Brothers and Sisters, a play written for and produced by Kenyon College. Upcoming projects: collaboration with musician Ray Rizzo (Essential Self Defense, Finer Noble Gases) on the musical Canary (showcase production at Rattlestick Theater in June 2008), an adaptation of Maeterlinck's The Blue Bird, with Philadelphia's EgoPo Productions and Orchestra 2001; and Firehouse 17, in development with director Kara Lynn Vaeni. Memberships: America-In-Play Residency and Commissions, Women's Project Lab, the Playwrights' Center. She has taught at University, the Brown University/ Trinity MFA Acting Program, and was Visiting Assistant Professor of Drama at Kenyon College, 2007-8. She was a Lucille Lortel fellow at Brown, where she earned her MFA in Playwriting.

Leticia Rodriguez is the Director and Founder of a performance company called Performance Encounters. They specialize in performance works that combine art and life events to produce humorous works that incite social change. Ms Rodriguez also performs Mexican boleros y música tropical with her band at various times and places all over the Austin area and surrounding community. For more information see: www.PerformanceEncounters.org.

Native Texan Cheryl Parrish has performed in major operatic and recital venues around the world. She has been seen on television in "Pavarotti Plus! Live from Lincoln Center" and "Vienna through the Eyes of Schubert" for Japanese Television. She has appeared at the New York City Opera, San Francisco Opera, The Canadian Opera Company, Zurich Opera, Opera Köln, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Italy, Austin Lyric Opera, Santa Fe Opera and many more. She has appeared with the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, the Mostly Mozart Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, among others. From 2002-2004, she was the Director of the Young Artist Program at the Austin Lyric Opera. Cheryl is on the faculty of Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas and makes her home in Austin.

Developmental dramaturg, Judith Rudakoff (BA McGill, MA University of Alberta, PhD University of Toronto) has worked with emerging and established playwrights on three continents. Books include Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy (Playwrights Canada Press, 2002, coeditor Lynn M. Thomson); Fair Play: Conversations with Canadian Women Playwrights (Simon & Pierre, 1989, co-editor Rita Much) and Questionable Activities: Canadian Theatre Artists in Conversation with Canadian Theatre Students (Playwrights Canada Press, 2000). Articles have appeared in The Drama Review, TheatreForum, Canadian Theatre Review. Creator of Elemental Lomograms, a transcultural methodology for initiating performance and visual art. She was the first Canadian honoured with the Elliott Hayes Prize in Dramaturgy for her work on South Asian choreographer Lata Pada's multidisciplinary work, Revealed by Fire. Rudakoff is a member of Playwrights Guild of Canada and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and Full Professor of Theatre at York University, Toronto, Canada

Julia M. Smith is a theater artist and educator based in Austin, TX. Currently Julia is a Senior Artistic Associate for Theatre Action Project where she teaches and performs interactive and educational theater and is a company member of Refraction Arts Project where her design work and performances have been seen in Celebrity Crush '02 and '03, Complicitly Yours, American Arcana, Orange, The Philomel Project and The Assumption (nominated for 13 Austin Critics Table and 7 B. Iden Payne Awards). Her design and performance work has been seen in Chicago with Redmoon Theater, in New York at The Player's Loft , Skirball Center for Performing Arts, and PS 122, and in Austin at The Blue Theater, The Off Center, Hyde Park Theater, The University of Texas, Mexican-American Cultural Center, The Long Center, and in various, site-specific locations across Austin. Julia holds a BFA from New York University's Experimental Theatre Wing and will soon be heading to Baltimore, MD to complete an MFA from Towson University.

Sharon Sparlin can't decide if she still 'does theatre' or not. When not contemplating that, she paddles her kayak, works as an office manager for a non-profit, gardens, and continues to research and write a play, despite herself. She ran iron belly muses with Rebecca Robertson from 2000-2004. She adapted Shakespeare's Troilus & Cressida which won Best Direction of a New Classic. Then wrote Curieosity, about Marie and Pierre Curie, which, if memory serves her correctly, got a choreography award. One of her fondest memories is humping a gravestone for Ken Webster.

Caridad Svich is an award-winning US Latina playwright and translator whose works have been produced across the US and abroad at diverse venues including 7 Stages, Cincinnati Playhouse, The Women's Project, 59 East 59, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In Austin her plays with songs Fugitive Pieces and Thrush have been produced at Salvage Vanguard Theatre. She is alumna playwright of New Dramatists, founder of theatre alliance & press NoPassport, and contributing editor of TheatreForum. Visit her at www.caridadsvich.com.

John Walch's plays include The Dinosaur Within, Circumference of a Squirrel, The Nature of Mutation, Iraq: A Love Story, Jesting with Edged Tools, Craving Gravy or Love in the Time of Cannibalism, Alice Threw the Looking Glass: A Parody of Strunk and White's The Elements of Style, as well as the musical DoubleTime, with composer Nile Rodgers, and numerous one-acts, collaborations, and shorts. His plays are published through Playscripts Inc. and have been produced/ developed/ commissioned by theatres such as The Mark Taper Forum/Center Theatre, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, the Public Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Urban Stages, Kitchen Dog Theatre, and internationally at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London. Awards include: Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays; the American Theatre Critics Association's Osborn Award; the Charlotte Woolard Award, and three Austin Critic's Table Awards. John served has taught playwriting at the University Texas/Michener Center for Writers, Florida State University, the Playwrights Workshop at University of Iowa, and Bennington College. John is the former Artistic Director for Austin Script Works and current resident playwright at New Dramatists in New York.

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