Lia Gladstone recently returned from her second trip to Afghanistan where she taught theater to young Afghans in the cities of Herat and Mazar I Sharif. In 2009, she was Professor of English and Drama at American University in Kabul. She is currently touring and developing Afghan Voices, a multi-media performance featuring the dramatic work of her Afghan students, who write about everything from street children to government corruption. As a professor, she used Anna Deveare Smith's Fires in the Mirror to inspire students to write their own monologues about the characters of Kabul.
Her playwrighting credits include, in New York: The Magic Bus at Cherry Lane; Homeland, a commission from The Drilling CompaNY; Tango at the Hotel Santiago and Children of the Far Far Away at Emerging Artists Theater, and in the San Francisco Fringe and Solo Mio Festivals. Anita in Swingville, an original screenplay, was a finalist in New York University’s Fusion Festival. Her poetic play, All The Pretty Women was a recipient of the Puffin Award for Playwrighting, translated into Spanish and published in a bi-lingual edition by Rain City Projects in Seattle.
Her documentary film, A Tale of Two Bridges, about two Oregon covered bridges, has been seen on public television and archived by the Oregon Historical Society. She has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.
Her playwrighting credits include, in New York: The Magic Bus at Cherry Lane; Homeland, a commission from The Drilling CompaNY; Tango at the Hotel Santiago and Children of the Far Far Away at Emerging Artists Theater, and in the San Francisco Fringe and Solo Mio Festivals. Anita in Swingville, an original screenplay, was a finalist in New York University’s Fusion Festival. Her poetic play, All The Pretty Women was a recipient of the Puffin Award for Playwrighting, translated into Spanish and published in a bi-lingual edition by Rain City Projects in Seattle.
Her documentary film, A Tale of Two Bridges, about two Oregon covered bridges, has been seen on public television and archived by the Oregon Historical Society. She has an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.