Sally Nemeth

Sally Nemeth was born in Chicago and worked extensively in the Off-Loop theatres there, founding Chicago New Plays, a playwrights’ collective. She subsequently relocated to New York City and now resides in Brooklyn. Her play HOLY DAYS premiered at the Soho Poly Theatre in London in 1988. Critically acclaimed, the production won three awards at the Fringe Theatre Awards and later was produced in Dublin, Ireland, and Auckland, New Zealand. In 1990, it premiered in the U.S. at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, and the production won four Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. The play has been published by Broadway Play Publishing, both in an acting edition and in the anthology "Plays From South Coast Repertory." Nemeth’s play MILL FIRE premiered in 1989 at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, and later moved to New York under the auspices of the Women’s Project. In 1990, it premiered in London at the Bush Theatre at Riverside Hammersmith and is included in the Women’s Project/Applause Books anthology "Womenswork." Nemeth’s one-act WATER PLAY was presented in the 1990 New Works Festival at the Mark Taper Forum and was produced in New York in 1992 by Road Theater at the Downtown Art Co. It is included in the Broadway Play Publishing anthology "Facing Forward." Her full-length play SPINNING INTO BLUE, commissioned by South Coast Rep, was part of the 1990 Showcase of New Plays at Carnegie Mellon and was produced in 1993 at Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago. In the summer of 1994, an evening of one-acts and monologues titled SALLY’S SHORTS was produced by One Dream Theater in New York. She is a 1989 recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a 1990 recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts grant. She has worked on numerous television shows and has written movies for television.