RESUME

FILM

First World (15 Minute Film)

Director – Paul Heller/Ritendra Datta

Top Shorts Film Festival, December 2024

Winner Best Original Story

Winner Top Ten Screen Plays

Winner Best short Film (Jury)

18th Ayodhya Film Festival, India, 2024

23rd Riverside International Film Festival, April, 2025

Top Selection, Festigious International Film Festival, Hayward, CA, August, 2025 and

Best Original Story, In recognition of excellence in filmmaking

 

PLAYS – FULL PRODUCTIONS

Make A Wish

Director, Drew Ward

New Threads Theatre Company (Frank Mihelich, Artistic Director) and The Redlands Theatre Festival 

July, 2023

 

Coming Home

Director, Piyush Kumar

Same Boat Theater

6 Live and recorded performances on Zoom

February-April, 2021

 

The Flood

Director, Merrill Gruver

The Un-Scripted Theater Company

February- April, 2017

 

Wolves

Director, Rem Myers

Actors: Wiley Naman Strasser/Campbell Zeigler

July 7-August 22, 2015 Living Rooms, Theatres and Convalescent Homes in Berkeley and San Francisco, CA

 

Frances and Leon

The Un-Scripted Theater Company

Director, Stacey Mayer

September 7, 2014

 

Kori & Alo (A Play for Bunraku Figures)

Created with Luis Tentindo – Figures & Paul Heller – Text

Director, Luis Tentindo

Full Production Southern Illinois University, X-Fest, June, 2012

& at UCLA’s Fowler Museum, August, 2013

 

Would You Still Be You (A Shadow Play)

Created with Luis Tentindo – Shadow Puppets & Paul Heller – Text

Director, Luis Tentindo

Full Production December, 2011 The Construction Company, 10 East 18th Street, New York, NY

 

Hickory Miles

Novato Theater Company, Novato Theater Company Playhouse, Novato, CA

Director, Bruce Coughran

Full Production August 4-14, 2011

 

Kanrin Maru

2010 Mary Sano Dance Company, San Francisco, CA

Director, Mary Sano

Full Production December 5, 2010, Brava Theater, San Francisco, CA

 

Beijing, California

Asian American Theater Company, Thick House, San Francisco, CA

Director, Duy Nguyen

June 30-July 15, 2010

 

Burning in Air

The Next Stage, San Francisco

Director, Paul Heller

Full Production September, 1995

 

Now Not Yet

The Phoenix Theatre, San Francisco

Director, Paul Heller

Full Production September, 1991

 

Dog Face

1991 The Phoenix Theatre, San Francisco

Director, Paul Heller

Full Production September, 1991

 

STAGED READINGS

Spit In Your Face  (Written in collaboration with Alberto Lomnitz)

Trinity Theater Company, San Diego, CA

April, 2023

 

Spit In Your Face

Director, Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez

New Threads Greenhouse Festival (Frank Mihelich, Artistic Director)

February, 2024

 

Pogo and Sparky

Director, Susannah Martin

Actors: Woody Harper, Kevin Rebultan

July, 2024

Pogo and Sparky

New Threads Theater Company

Director, Frank Mihelich

June, 2025

 

Wolves – Workshops & Readings

Director, Rem Myers

Actor: Wiley Naman Strasser/Campbell Zeigler

January & May, 2014 Living Rooms in Berkeley & San Francisco CA

 

Scavengers

Director, Hugo Carbajal

Central Works Writer’s Group, Berkeley, CA

April 12, 2014

 

Hickory Miles

Director, Paul Heller

2011 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA, 2010

 

Blame

Local 4 Series

Director, Desdemona Chiang, Producer, Barbara Oliver, 2010

Blame

Virago Theatre Company – Vision & Voices: New Play Reading Series, Alameda, CA

Director, Rachel Lepell, 2010

 

Wolves

Central Works Writer’s Group, Berkeley, CA

Director, Marissa Wolf, 2010

 

Right Aide

Z Space, San Francisco

Director, Paul Heller, 2008

 

20/20

Devised Theater

San Francisco State University

Director, Amy Kilgard, 2005

 

The Abundance

The Magic Theatre – Z Magic Mondays Series

Director, Emily Koch, 2004

Cups of Tea

Besler Building, Emeryville, CA

Flossie Lewis, Eleanor

Director, Paul Heller, 1999

 

RESIDENCIES & WRITING GROUPS

2011, 2015, 2022 Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA

Central Works Playwrights Group, Berkeley, CA 2006-2013

Throughline, San Francisco, CA, 2015-current

New Threads Theatre Writers Group, 2023-current

 

AWARDS

2016 Zellerbach Grant to produce Wolves

2014 Creative Capacity Fund Award

2014 Wolves – Finalist, Cutting Ball’s Risk is This, April 2014

2013 ATLAS Playwright, Theatre Bay Area, San Francisco, CA

2008 Blame Featured Playwright, Theatre Bay Area Playwrights Showcase

2005 Blame, Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival, San Francisco, CA

1990 Downs Award for Fiction, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

1984 Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, Oxford, MS

 

EDUCATION

M.F.A. Creative Writing. University of Arizona, 1990

B.A. Liberal Arts, University of Pacific, Stockton, CA 1975