DonaldRaySchwartz
Baltimore , Maryland
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Biography submission: Donald R. Schwartz
-Donald Ray Schwartz has published nearly 200 works, including short stories, essays, articles, reviews and criticisms, a novella, and non-fiction works. Lillian Russell: A Bio Bibliography, in collaboration with Anne Bowbeer is considered the definitive resource on the late 19th, early 20th centuries chanteuse and a significant contribution to that period of American theater in general. Noah’s Ark: An Annotated Encyclopedia of All the Animal Species in the Hebrew Bible was the Jewish Book Club Selection of the month in the year it was published, and is still considered the definitive resource for that subject.
His play, Review, won the Sarasota (Florida) Theatre National Playwriting Contest. His epic poem, The Cross Country Run of Jennifer X Dreifus, won the Mellen National Epic Poetry Contest. His sabbatical monograph about Philo Farnsworth’s invention of television, published by CCBC, is available online as an ebook, and now in print form from Amazon. His latest publications, two novels, one science-fiction (Deeptide), and one in the form of a memoir (Hearts) are now available. His latest award is Second Place (with Laurels) in the New York Metropolitan Screenwriting Contest.
Professor Schwartz has directed or produced over 40 main stage productions (including full stage musicals). He has directed television commercials. He has featured cameo roles in two independent major motion pictures. He was a featured performer for Nebraska Public Television’s industrial film series.
Donald Ray Schwartz is Associate Professor of Speech, Theatre and Mass Communication (ret’d) at CCBC (Community College of Baltimore County, ret’d). He resides in Baltimore County with his wife, Ann. One of his academic productions at the college was the only one to win the coveted Ensemble Award from the Kennedy Center.
Faculty and as Administrator at Peru State College, Nebraska, and Ashland College, Ohio.
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