Bara Swain

Bara Swain’s plays, monologues and film adaptations have been performed in more than 125 venues in 25 states and abroad. NYC theatres include the Barrow Group, Abingdon Theatre, Urban Stages, Players Theatre, Symphony Space, Articulate Theatre, Sam French OOB Festival, Artistic New Directions, Project Y Theatre, Athena Theatre, NY Madness, Hudson Guild, Westside Theatre, Rising Sun, Ego Actus and T.A.R.T.E.. Other venues include NJ Rep, TheatreWorks (TN), Lyric Theatre (FL), New American Theatre (CA), Old Opera House (WV), Potluck Productions (MO), and OnStage Atlanta (GA), Duluth Playhouse (MN), The Tom Mann Theatre (Sydney, Australia), Junction Theatre (Dubai), Open Fist Theatre (CA), and Old Opera House (WV). Give and Take, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Critical Care, Prized Begonias and I Love Lucy are published in the Smith & Kraus Best Ten-Minute Plays anthologies. Her work is also published by Art Age Press (Senior Theatre), Applause Books, Original Works Publishing, Meriwether, and JAC Publications. Critical Care, produced on stage and in film, is reprinted in the college textbook, Serious Daring: Creative Writing in Four Genres by Lisa Roney (Oxford U. Press) and serves as a key reading for the craft of dialogue. Honors include Heideman Award Finalist, Aboard the Guy V. Molinari; City Theatre National Award Finalist for Short Playwriting for The Hotel Lobbyist and Extraordinary and, by special invitation from Burt Reynolds, An Evening With Bara Swain, BRIFT, Jupiter, Florida, directed by The Bandit. Bara serves as the Creative Consultant at Urban Stages.