Fight the Power

My old blog has either been taken over by robots or I didn't pay somebody or something. But I don't have it anymore. So now I have this new one and hopefully I can wrestle control of it and make it behave. So here is a bio and photo of me just to stake a claim and start this whole process.

Originally from Hot Springs, Arkansas, Werner Trieschmann's numerous plays -- including Dog Star, Failing the Improv and Disfarmer -- have been staged by Moving Arts in Los Angeles, Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, The New Theatre in Boston, Mobtown Players in Baltimore, and Red Octopus Productions in Little Rock, Arkansas. In addition to the United States, Werner's plays have been produced in England, Italy, and Romania. Werner was a resident at the Mount Sequoyah New Play Retreat in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and his play Lawn Dart won first prize in the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans New Play Competition.

His full-length comedy You Have to Serve Somebody is published by the Dramatic Publishing Company; several popular one-acts including The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe are published by Playscripts, Inc.; his dark one-act comedy Killers is published through Original Works Publishing. His monologues have appeared in The Best Women's Stage Monologues 1999 and Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s, published by Smith & Kraus. He was the first playwright to receive the Porter Prize, an Arkansas literary award recognizing outstanding achievement by an Arkansas writer.

In addition to playwriting, Werner Trieschmann was an editor and columnist for the Little Rock Free Press and then Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for 18 years. He has written for multiple publications, including The Village Voice, Nashville Scene, Babble, the Boston Pheonix, and American Craft. Werner has an MFA in Playwriting from Boston University and he currently lives in Little Rock with his wife and two wild and crazy boys.