Everybody Here Says Hello!

Stuart Eugene Bousel is a San Francisco-based playwright and director. His work has been produced in New York, Dublin, Portland, Tucson, Melbourne, Seattle, and San Francisco. His play Vincent of Gilagmesh was a nominee for the 2001 MAC Award; his play Mathew 33:6 was a finalist for the Sky Cooper Award in 2007; and his play Wild Blue Peaks was a finalist at HUMANA in 2002. He co-wrote the John C. Cosgrove Award winning short film Insomnia in 2000, and his play Everybody Here Says Hello! (produced by Wily West Productions) won the Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding World Premiere in 2014, and was awarded Best Original Script by the Bay Area Critics Circle in 2015. He has three times had work featured in the Bay One Acts Festival: Housebroken in 2010, Speak Roughly in 2011, and Brainkill in 2012. He adapted the novel Giant Bones, by Peter S. Beagle, in 2010, and the memoir Rat Girl, by Kristin Hersh, in 2014 (also nominated for Outstanding World Premiere, Theatre Bay Area Awards). He is the recipient of the SF Weekly's Ringmaster Award in Best of the Bay 2013, and his other work includes penning the online short film Wish U Were Here for Hostelling International, the novel Dry Country, and co-editing two collections of new work by Bay Area playwrights, SONGS OF HESTIA (2012), and HEAVENLY BODIES (2014), both published by EXIT Press. Stuart is the Artistic Director of San Francisco Indie theater company, No Nude Men Productions, the Executive Director (and co-founder) of the San Francisco Theater Pub, and the Executive Producer (and founder) of the San Francisco Olympians Festival, and the Director of New Work Development for Custom Made Theatre Company.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA