Jan Quackenbush
an Quackenbush has written twenty-eight produced plays (staged in eight countries including Europe and Asia and translated into four languages), fourteen short one-acts in enacted readings, four produced musicals (one, Raisin’ Cain, commissioned by the Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis and another, Subclass Four Million: Serenades of the Southern Cross, showcased at the Banff Centre, Canada), and three screenplays.
In addition, Simeon in Memorium, a Vietnam era prose poem, is included with works by Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco in Signature 20 Anthology published by Calder & Boyars, Ltd, London.
Honors include the Los Angeles Dramalogue Award and a World Wildlife Fund International Play Competition for Play Extinct, premiered at The Young Vic Theatre, London.
He has worked and collaborated with multi-award winners Ellen Stewart, founder of La MaMa Theatre ETC, New York City; director Tom O’Horgan (Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar), New York; Frank Dunlop, London; novelist John C. Gardner, and an der westentasche theatre, Ulm, Germany.
He holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Playwriting) from Goddard College and teaches Playwriting in the MA/MFA Creative Writing program at Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA. Mr. Quackenbush’s work is archived by invitation at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University.
