Evan Guilford-Blake
Bio - July, 2008

Evan Guilford-Blake is the author of about 30 produced plays which have received more than 100 productions across the U.S., in Canada, Australia, England and Israel. He has won 24 playwriting competitions as well as numerous awards for his short fiction and poetry. Playscripts, Inc., publishes his plays The Firebird (developed in ASL and spoken English with a ensemble of deaf and hearing actors) and True Magic: A Christmas Farce with Unoriginal Music for the Entire Family. During 2008 Nighthawks, winner of four national competitions, and What is Gained is Loss, will be published by small presses.

Among his other professional credits, Evan has served as an Instructor and Playwright-in-Residence at Utah State University and a responder and presenter for the American College Theatre Festival. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Advisory Board of Chicago Dramatists, where he is a Resident Playwright Emeritus. Creator of the course The Business of Playwriting: Developing and Marketing Your Play Without an Agent, which he has presented across the U.S., he also teaches playwriting at, and produces for, the Academy Theatre, the Southeast's oldest theatre organization. In 2008, he was selected for the Georgia Writers Registry and nominated for Southern Artistry.

His other published work includes numerous articles, poems and stories as well as the text for Butterflies, a children's picture book issued by Unibooks, contributions to two collections of monologues, and a Cup of Comfort series anthology and the collection Christmas Traditions, both issued by Adams Publishing.

He and his wife, freelance writer and jewelry designer Roxanna Guilford-Blake, live in the Atlanta area with their two lovable, dumb-as-dirt doves, Quill and Gabriella.

For a full list of Evan's productions, awards and affiliations, please click resume.