Douglas Post

Douglas Post’s plays, which include Bloodshot, Cynical Weathers, Drowning Sorrows, Earth and Sky and Murder in Green Meadows, and musicals, which include God and Country, The Real Life Story of Johnny de Facto and The Wind in the Willows, have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Canada, England, Wales, Germany, Austria, Estonia, Russia and China. He has also been commissioned to write screenplays for Warner Bros. and NBC, teleplays for WMAQ-TV, and several radio adaptations of his scripts. On three occasions, he has been selected to develop his work at the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and once at the O’Neill National Music Theater Conference. He has received the L. Arnold Weissberger Playwriting Award, the Midwestern Playwrights Festival Award, the Cunningham Commission, the Blue Ink Playwriting Award, and three Playwriting Fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, and he has been nominated for three Jeff Awards and an Emmy Award. Mr. Post lives in Chicago where he is President of Long River Records, has composed songs and incidental music for over 25 productions, and is an instructor of playwriting and theatre appreciation at the University of Chicago Graham School, an institution that recently honored him with an Innovation in Teaching Award.