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From Page to Stage with Edgar winners

June 2, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Use this link to register now for the MWA-New York discussion on writing mysteries for the stage by Edgar Award Best Play recipients Joseph Goodrich and Gary Earl Ross.

Register now and you will receive a Zoom invite the week of the event. This is a new procedure. Like all MWA-New York virtual events, the event is free. Registration is required for access.

Joseph Goodrich

Joseph Goodrich’s dramatic work has been produced by The Flea Theater (NYC), Jean Cocteau Rep (NYC), HERE Arts Center’s American Living Room Series (NYC), Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre (NYC), Portland Stage Company (ME), the Hudson Opera House, and Red Eye Collaboration (Minneapolis). Canada’s Vertigo Theatre produced his adaptation of Ellery Queen’s Calamity Town (2016 Calgary Theater Critics – Best New Script). Panic received the 2008 Edgar Award for Best Play. Park Square Theater in Saint Paul commissioned The Red Box and Might As Well Be Dead, the first Nero Wolfe mysteries adapted for the stage with the permission of the Rex Stout estate. He is the editor of Blood Relations: The Selected Letters of Ellery Queen, 1947-1950. His fiction has appeared in two Mystery Writers of America anthologies: The Rich and The Dead, edited by Nelson DeMille, and The Mystery Box, edited by Brad Meltzer. His writing has been published by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Mystery Scene, Crimespree and Noir Riot. He is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a former Calderwood Fellow at the MacDowell Colony.

 

Gary Earl Ross

Gary Earl Ross is a retired University at Buffalo professor. His books include The Wheel of Desire, Shimmerville, Blackbird Rising, Beneath the Ice, and the Gideon Rimes mysteries Nickel City Blues, Nickel City Crossfire, and Nickel City Storm Warning. His plays (staged in the US, Canada, England, India, China, and Kazakhstan) include Picture Perfect, The Best Woman, Murder Squared, The Scavenger’s Daughter, The Mark of Cain, The Guns of Christmas, The Trial of Trayvon Martin and Matter of Intent, winner of the 2006 Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America. Both The Scavenger’s Daughter and Matter of Intent have been adapted into transliterated motion pictures by CITOC Productions of Mumbai, India. Visit him at www.garyearlross.net.

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