Steven Schutzman, Fiction Writer, Playwright

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Welcome.  You have reached my website where you can
 
- Learn how to purchase production rights and copies of my dramatic works Purchasing Copies and Rights
 
- Connect to websites where you can read other stories and plays of mine Stories and Plays on the Web
 
Contact Me for your free-lance writing and editing projects
 
- Find "Where Things Are: Selected Shorter Plays" by Steven Schutzman http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AI1QP3W  ($1.99)The collection gathers fifteen of my best previously produced, published and anthologized plays, 10 to 25 minutes long
 
- Find my new novella "A Bride At Every Funeral, A Corpse At Every Wedding" at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AKEXEAE 
 
- Read "The Bank Robbery" a widely anthologized, prize winning short story  The Bank Robbery
 
- Read the first act from my full length play "A Question of Water" A Question of Water, Act 1  
 
- Read my prize-winning one-act play "Tree Man" Tree Man, a play in one act
 
- Read "Italy" nominated for a Pushcart Prize, published in "Regional Best 2012" by Level 4 Press, and to be published in "Best Ten Minute Plays, 2012" by Smith & Kraus.
 
Here are some recent happenings

- My novella "Pablo, Pablito" published in its entirety at Eclectica Magazine  www.eclectica.org/v17n1/toc.html 
 
- "Where Things Are: Selected Shorter Plays" and "A Bride At Every Funeral, A Corpse At Every Wedding" now available from Amazon.com  
 
- In February, 2012, I was awarded my sixth Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant Award, this one in playwriting.
 
- "Horizon", flash fiction, published in Sand #4, Winter, 2011.
 
- My play "Where Things Are" just published by One Act Play Depot http://oneactplays.net/cruel.htm
 
- My ten minute play "Normal Is A Country" published by One Act Play Depot  http://oneactplays.net/0to60.html 
 
- A short story "Dinosaur Eggs" published by Underground Voices http://www.undergroundvoices.com/UVSchutzmanSteven.htm
 
- "No Chhhh-anukah in Chhhh-elm", a hilarious Fools of Chelm play, published by Heuer Publishing http://www.hitplays.com/
 
- One-act plays "Five More Minutes" and "Chelm Goes To War" published in anthologies from Ren Hen Press. 
 
-  A story "Forbidden Fruit" published The 2nd Hand http://the2ndhand.com/web69/forbidden.html
 
-  "Italy" performed at Alive Theatre, Long Beach, CA and and in June, 2011 by StageCrafters, Royal Oak, MI.
 
- "A Question of Water" winner of the Across The Generations New Jewish Play Festival. Staged readings at Congregation Dor Hadash, San Diego, CA. July 17 & 18, 2010.
 
- "Normal Is A Country" performed at Circus Theatricals 15th Annual Festival of New One Act Plays, May 27-June 28, 2010, Los Angeles, CA. http://www.circustheatricals.com/
 
- A new story "The Tree" just published in Moon Milk Review http://www.moonmilkreview.com/2010/04/01/the-tree-by-steven-schutzman/
 
- "nailing the books shut", a one act, performed June 19, 2010.  Piper Theatre Company, NYC. http://pipertheatre.org
 
- "String Theory", performed by Bedlam Theatre, Minneapolis, April, 2010.  http://bedlamtheatre.org
 
- "Tammy", a one-act, named one of five finalists in the Eileen Heckart Drama For Seniors Competition, 2009.
 
- My son Elias' terrfic rock band, The Flying Eyes, release their first full-length album through Trip in Time Records.  They are now on a 6 week, 30 gig, 6 country tour of Europe. Listen at http://www.myspace.com/theflyingeyes
 
- A poem "The Language of Crows" in In Posse Review http://www.inpossereview.com/IPR_Schutzman.htm
 
- My ten minute play "Normal Is A Country" performed at the 10 by 10 in the Triangle Festival, Carrboro, NC, July, 2009; at Subversive Theatre, Buffalo, NY, May, 2009; at Rochester Repertory, Rochester, MN, 2008.
 
- My one-act play "The Weight" performed at the 15th Annual New York City Fifteen Minute Play Festival, May, 2009; at the Salute Shorts Festival of the Rapscallion Theatre Collective, NYC, May, 2009; and at 517 Playwrights, Lexington, KY, October, 2009.
 
- Two new plays for young audiences the hilarious "The Emperor's New Clothes" and "Kidnapped: Persephone in the Underworld"  published by Brooklyn Publishing and available at(www.brookpub.com).  
 
- My children's play "Why Pigs Shouldn't Read Books", winner of the Multi-Arts.Org Playwriting Competition, 2009.
 
-My ten minute play "No Talking On The First Date" performed at Shelterbelt Theatre, Jan-Feb, 2010; at the 2009 International Cringe Festival; and at City Theatre Company, Wilmington, DE.
 
- "Normal Is A Country" named a finalist in the Actors Theatre of Louisville National Ten Minute Play Contest, 2008.  The play was a winner in the the Longwood University Ten Minute Play Festival, 2009, which includes publication by One Act Play Depot.
 
- "Tree Man" performed by Team Venture Productions, Chicago, April, 2009.
 
- A short story "War of Choice" published in the new issue of the venerable Gargoyle (#54).
 
- A short story "Maybe I'm Stupid" published in the on-line journal "The Big Stupid Review".  http://www.thedrillpress.com/tex/2009-05-01/tex-2009-05-01-stupid-sschutzman-01.shtml
 
- A one-act play "Tammy" published in Conclave: A Journal of Character.
 
- A story "Tonight, You're Mine" published in Night Train http://www.nighttrainmagazine.com/contents/schutzman_8_1.php
 
- "Pablo and the Frogs" (an early version of the first chapter of "Pablo, Pablito" published in Painted Bride Quarterly http://www.webdelsol.com/pbq/issue76/

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