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Bio: Michele Forsten is a playwright, essayist and college administrator. Her full-length play, "Be My Baby!" was a finalist and had a staged reading at Playwrights Circle in Palm Springs (CA), was a finalist in the Pittsburgh New Play Festival and a semi-finalist in the Moondance International Festival Stage Play Competition and in The London Borough of Newham’s 2002 LESBIAN AND GAY Stage Play Competition (one of 12 semi-finalists out of 140 submissions worldwide). Her short plays, "Winning?" and "Dinosaur Doc" have been staged in New York City, Madison (New Jersey) and San Francisco. "Ersatz Egg Salad," her new short play, was a finalist in the Sonoma County Rep’s New Drama Works Scripts Festival (15-minute play category) and was included in the International Centre for Women Playwrights' Her-RAH! series of readings in New York City celebrating International Women's Day in March 2002. "Ersatz Egg Salad," her new short play, was included in the International Centre for Women Playwrights' Her-RAH! series of readings in New York City celebrating International Women's Day in March. A monologue from "Be My Baby! was published in Smith & Kraus' "Best Women's Stage Monologues 2000 and "Winning?" in its entirety appears in S&K's "Best Stage Scenes 2000."
She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, the International Centre for Women Playwrights and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Her personal essays have been published in The New York Times and other newspapers nationwide. Co-producer of the 1993 award-winning documentary "Homoteens," she grew up Coney Island.
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