Personal Bio

                 Short Vita-Edward F. EmanuEl, Ph.D

FILM

3 Ninjas, distributed by Touchstone

Screenwriter of sixteen kung fu films produced by Cinema City, Hong Kong,. Screenwriter of the film 3 Ninjas produced by Touchstone Films, Screenwriter of the Crystal Journey produced by Hall Bartlett Films, Docu-dramatist for PBS. nominated for a TV EMMY for writing Conquest Of My Brother, under contract to Fairbourne Films Lmtd, London as a screenwriter of the following films, ISOLA, El Famoso! and The Wide Blue Road, Pintaro’s Tiger,** Screenwriter of El Gato produced by Michael Murphy and Zebra Films , Dances on Fire. Produced by Morrissey Entertainment. Double Or Nothing,produced by Dale Davis Entertainment.

Rewrite Specialist: Life Through A Stained Glass Window, Produced by Robert Zappilorti.

*Fairbourne Films Lmtd. ‘s options on my films expires in June ,2004 and will not be renewed.

Bandido, Produced by Marion Rosenberg, The Rosenberg Office

Stained Glass Windows, Produced by Deborah Callistrero.

Puncline!, Produced by Dale Davis Entertainment

Professional Achievement on Stage.

Former Artistic Director of the Monterey Shakespeare Festival, Director of There Comes a Time, produced by Leonard DePour, performed at Lincoln Center, NYC. Director of Whatever Happened To Georgie Tapps produced by Roy Disney performed at the Westwood Playhouse, LA and the Cannery Theatre, SF, produced by PBS. Director of Death Of A Salesman, produced by the Judy Bayley Theatre Summer Arts Festival, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV., The Liberty Dance Of Henry Sparrow produced by the Palm Center For The Performing Arts, Fresno. Regular Movie Reviewer, Alan Autry Radio Show, 1300 KYNO.

Guest Director, Japanese National Theatre, Kyoto

Guest Director, Tennessee Williams Theatre, Zurich, Switzerland

Guest Director, Polish Academy of the Arts, Warsaw

for writing Conquest Of My Brother, under contract to Fairbourne Films Lmtd, London as a screenwriter of the following films, ISOLA, El Famoso! and The Wide Blue Road, Pintaro’s Tiger,** Screenwriter of El Gato produced by Michael Murphy and Zebra Films , Dances on Fire. Produced by Morrissey Entertainment. Double Or Nothing,produced by Dale Davis Entertainment.

Published and Presented Papers, Stage Plays and Books

Action And Idea : The Roots Of Entertainment 2^nd. Edition a text on entertainment published by Kendall/Hunt.

The Life Of Paddy Chayefsky, published by Scribners Encyclopedia of American Lives

The Life Of Lin Fontaine, published by Scribners Encyclopedia of American Lives

Editor’s Choice: Audition Monologues for Men, Dramatic Publishing Company

Act I, An Introduction To Theatre, Lion Publishing.

Guest Artist in Stage Directing, San Francisco State University

Guest Artist In Stage Directing, Bristol University, United Kingdom

Guest Artist in Playwriting, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan

Guest Artist in Chekhovian Studies, Abbervegenney College, Wales, UK

GuestArtist in Directing, Hong Kong Conservatory of Performing Arts

Guest Artist in Classical Staging, Taiwan Academy Of The Arts, Taipei, ROC

Guest Artist in Shakespearean Studies, Taiwan National University, Taipei, ROC

Guest Artist in Directing, Hazzard College, Hazaard KY.

Guest Artist in Playwriting, Western Ill,University

Guest Artist in Playwriting and Directing, Skidmore College, Saratoga, Springs NY

Guest Artist in American Dramatic Literature, Caerleon College,Wales, United Kingdom

Guest Artist in Directing, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Guest Artist in Directing, Kyoto Seka University, Japan

Guest Artist in Playwriting, Shikoku Gakuin University, Shikoku Japan

Guest Artist in Playwriting, Shimonoseki College, Shimonoseki, Japan

Contributing Lecturer, Smithsonian Institution, Current Trends in Avant Garde Theatre

Author, AcT I, An Introduction to Theatre and Drrama, Published by Linus Publications.

2008 Keynote Speaker at the Asia/Pacific Theatre Conference, Taipei, Ttaiwan. Presentation Title: Shakespeare, The Universal Dramatic Catalyst.

Original Plays, Published, Produced and Toured

I have written thirty-seven plays including:

Conquest Of My Brother, produced over three hundred times in the USA and Europe and presented three times at the Edinburgh International Festival of The Arts, Edinburgh, Scotland. Also toured to Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

A House Divided…, produced and toured by the Hartford Stage Co, Hartford, Ct

A Woman Of Power, presented at the Utah Shakespearean Festival at Cedar City, Utah

The Liberty Dance Of Henry Sparrow, Produced by the Palm Center For The Performing Arts. This has been the longest running play in the history of the city of Fresno, California. It was produced on June 16, 2003 and has continued to play through October 19, 2003

The Liberty Dance Of Henry Sparrow, toured to San Francisco State University and to the John F.Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, Washington DC by the American College Theatre Festival.1975-76.

Lead Rings On The Merry-Go-Round, toured to the American Theatre Association Convention in Los Angeles and to the Edinburgh International Festival of the Arts.

Guys Like Me And Bogey, toured to the Edinburgh International Festival of the Arts.

Sun Yat Sen In The Mouth Of The Dragon, toured to Taiwan and Hawaii and published by the Ministry of Education in English and Chinese, Taiwan, ROC and The Dramatic Publishing Co. USA.

Kaiser Bill And The Grand Parade, produced by The Dolman Theatre Company , Newport, Wales and toured to the Edinburgh Int. Theatre Fest. Of The Arts.

University Directed Plays.

In my career at CSU, Fresno State, I have directed 41 main stage plays.

Awards

Sam S. Shubert National Fellowship in Playwriting.

Northwest Drama Award For Directing Excellence, Conquest Of My Brother.

Edinburgh International Festival Of The Arts Fringe First Place, Kaiser Bill And The Grand Parade.

California State Legislature Award Of Excellence for Kaiser Bill And The Grand Parade.

National Laureate Production presented by the American College Theatre Festival and the John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts for The Liberty Dance Of Henry Sparrow

The Edinburgh International Festival Of The Arts Fringe First Place Award for Guys Like Me And Bogey.

Welsh Medal Of Drama Excellence for Kaiser Bill And The Grand Parade

National Laureate Production presented by the American College Theatre Festival and the John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts for A Taming Of The Shrew.

Distinguished Professor Award presented by California State University, Fresno

Nominated for a TV Emmy National Academy Of Television Arts and Science for Conquest of My Brother, produced by PBS

United States Senate Resolution Of Praise for Passages presented in California, Hawaii and Japan.

International Fulbright Award Recipient for “A Study Of Sun Yat Sen”.

Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama by the World Journal Newspaper for Sun Yat Sen In The Mouth Of The Dragon.

Winner of the Mark David Cohen National Award In Playwriting for the best original play of the year 2000 as presented by the John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, The American College Theatre Festival and The Dramatic Publishing Company re: Sun Yat Sen In The Mouth Of The Dragon.

John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts Gold Medal For Theatre Excellence.

Recipient of the Distinguished Humanitarian Award, presented by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, ROC.

Recipient of the Stanley Wang Family Award For Educational Excellence in the area of drama, literature and performing arts, presented by the Chancellor of the California State University System for the year 2000-2001. Only one recipient is given this award from the pool of twenty state universities and thirty-five thousand professors.

Provost’s Certificate Of Recognition Award -2009-2010, College of Arts and Humanities.

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