CASSANDRA MEDLEY’S most recently produced plays include: Noon Day Sun, Diverse City Theatre Company-Theatre Row, New York City, August, 2008; Relativity, featured in online radio broadcast, L.A. Repertory Theatre –February, 2008; Relativity, produced by Kuntu Repertory of Pittsburg, Southern Repertory of New Orleans, 2007, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, May, 2006, the St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre, February, 2006, and the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in June, 2004. Relativity won the 2006 Audelco “August Wilson Playwriting” Award and was featured on Science Friday, National Public Radio. Broadway Play Publishing is the publisher of the play.
Medley’s Ms. Mae, is one of several individual sketches which comprise the Off-Broadway musical, A....My Name is Alice. Alice, first produced at the "Women's Project and Productions", received the 1984 Outer Critics Drama Award, and continues to play in regional theatres across the U.S.
In addition, Medley is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including: New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1986; NewYork State Council on the Arts Grant, 1987; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in Playwrighting, 1989; National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Playwrighting. 1990; New Professional Theatre Award, 1995; Marilyn Simpson Award, 1995; Theatrefest Regional Playwriting Award for Best Play, 2001; Ensemble Studio Theatre 25th Anniversary Award for Theatre Excellence, 2002; “Going to the River Writers” Life Achievement Award, 2004; and the Audelco August Wilson Playwriting Award, 2006.
Medley teaches playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College. She has also taught at New York University, and has served as guest artist at Columbia University, the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and Seattle University. From 1995-1997 Medley worked as a staff writer for ABC Television: One Life to Live.
She is a playwright member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and New River Dramatists.
Medley’s Ms. Mae, is one of several individual sketches which comprise the Off-Broadway musical, A....My Name is Alice. Alice, first produced at the "Women's Project and Productions", received the 1984 Outer Critics Drama Award, and continues to play in regional theatres across the U.S.
In addition, Medley is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including: New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, 1986; NewYork State Council on the Arts Grant, 1987; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award in Playwrighting, 1989; National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Playwrighting. 1990; New Professional Theatre Award, 1995; Marilyn Simpson Award, 1995; Theatrefest Regional Playwriting Award for Best Play, 2001; Ensemble Studio Theatre 25th Anniversary Award for Theatre Excellence, 2002; “Going to the River Writers” Life Achievement Award, 2004; and the Audelco August Wilson Playwriting Award, 2006.
Medley teaches playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College. She has also taught at New York University, and has served as guest artist at Columbia University, the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop and Seattle University. From 1995-1997 Medley worked as a staff writer for ABC Television: One Life to Live.
She is a playwright member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and New River Dramatists.
