Barbara Lhota is an award-winning playwright as well as a screenwriter. She has been known to juggle, unicycle, and Karaoke in her spare time (but rarely in public). The Studio's production of her play Third Person was selected by the Boston Herald as one of the top ten plays of the 1993-94 season. She was awarded the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Award for playwriting for her playHanging by a Thread. Most recently Barbara is the proud winner of the Babes with Blades' international playwriting competition Joining Sword and Pen for her play Los Desaparecidos: The Vanished. And now she has been honored with the opportunity to join the spectacular Babes as an Associate Company Member. Her plays have been produced at various theaters and universities across the country. She received her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from Brandeis University, where she was an artist-in-residence and taught playwriting. Barbara now lives in Chicago, where she has had the opportunity to see Strangers and Romance, Family Portrait, Third Person, A Good Solid Home, Without You, Acceptance Letter, The Good Son, Flyin' High, Los Desaparecidos: The Vanished, Morbid Curiosity, Personal Penchants, To Be in Your Shoes, and her musical children's play, The Nerdy Girl and the Intergalactic Dog, produced. She has had productions or workshops with various Chicago companies which include Artistic Home, Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Camenae Ensemble, Circle Theatre Company, Griffin Theater, Jupiter Theater, Naked Earth, Rascal Children's Theater, Stage Left, Stockyards Theater, Symposium, Theatre of Western Springs, and Women's Theatre Alliance. Barbara's plays, Strangers and Romance, can be found in Smith and Kraus' Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2001 and two of her monologues are in The Best Male Monologues of 2001 and nearly 50 of her monologues are in the Audition Arsenal Series edited by Janet B. Milstein. She is the co-author of four collections of short play published by Smith and Kraus and entitled Forensics Series Volume 1-4. Email Barb at Blhota@aol.com
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