The Interview**
Productions
Dayton Playhouse (1997)
Notre Dame College (1998)
Rochester Repertory Theatre (1998)
First Stage, Dayton (2000)
JCC Halle Theatre, Cleveland (2002)
Raven Theatre, Chicago (2004)
Chester Theatre Co., MA (2007)
The Women’s Theatre Project, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (2009)
The Women’s Theatre Project (revival), Boca Raton, FL (2013)
B’nai Torah Congregation, Boca Raton (2020)
Actors Theatre of Fairborn (OH) (2020)
Sarasota Jewish Theatre (2022)
Congregation Beth Jacob, Dayton (2022)
Selected Staged Readings
Jewish Repertory Theatre, NY (1997)
Cleveland Play House Next Stage Festival (1998)
Malone College (1998)
Fountain Theatre, L.A. with Jewish Women’s Theatre Project (1998)
Boston Playwrights Theatre (1999)
Triangle Theatre, NY (1999)
Pirate Playhouse, FL (1999)
Northampton Film Festival, MA (1999)
Charlotte Repertory Theatre (2000)
American Stage Festival, NH (2001)
Toledo Repertory Theatre (2003)
Warehouse Theatre, SC (2004)
West Boca Theatre Company (2010)
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage (2013)
Fairmount Temple (2013)
Interplay Jewish Theatre (2018)
Prizes and Other Honors
Winner, Dayton FutureFest (1997)
Finalist, William & Arlene Lewis Playwriting Contest (1998)
Winner, Midwest Theatre Network New Play Festival, MN (1999)
Nominated for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize by Cleveland Play House (1999)
Semi-finalist, Chesterfield Film Co, Writer’s Film Project (2000)
Winner, Charlotte Festival of New American Plays (2000)
Winner, $5,000 Individual Artists Grant from Ohio Arts Council (2000)
Honored by Poets & Writers League of Greater Cleveland (2000)
Nominated for Northern Ohio Live Achievement Award (2002)
The play was the centerpiece for Yom HaShoah observances in Cleveland, Lorain, and Toledo, OH
Publications
Published by Speert Publishing, 2012
Extracts published in Best Stage Scenes 1998; and Best Women’s Stage Monologues 1998, both Smith & Kraus Publications
Featured in Holocaust Theater: Dramatizing Survivor Trauma and Its Effects on the Second Generation, By Gene A. Plunka, Routledge Publishing, New York/London, February 2018 and in The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies (England), fall 2018.
The subject of the article “Symptoms of Psychological Problems among Children of Holocaust Survivors: Faye Sholiton’s The Interview, by Gene A. Plunka (in) Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 2018, pp 1-22. Published by University of Nebraska Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jlt.2018.0000
The Good Times*
Staged Readings
Dobama Theatre (2000)
Prizes and Other Honors
Finalist, Trustus Theatre Contest (1999)
Writer’s Digest Contest (1999)
Reva Shiner Contest (2001)
Mountain Playhouse (2006)
Taught in Ohio State University Honors English classes (2007, 2008)
V-E Day**
Productions
Dobama Theatre (2003)
Staged Readings
Cleveland Play House Next Stage Festival (2003)
Weathervane Community Playhouse (2005)
Jewish Community Center, Cleveland (2005)
Ohio State University (Artist in Residence) (2005)
Blank Theatre, L.A. (with Gin Joint Theatre) (2006)
Maltz Museum, Cleveland (2010)
Readers Theatre, Sequim, WA (2015)
Prizes and Other Honors
First Prize, William & Arlene Lewis New Play Contest (2003)
Fourth Prize, Writer’s Digest Contest (2005)
Honorable Mention, Jane Chambers Contest (2004)
Winner, $5,000 Individual Artists Grant, Ohio Arts Council (2004)
Publications
Two scenes appear in Scenes & Monologues from the Best New Plays II, Meriwether Publishing (2007)
Two scenes appear in DUO!: The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century, (Applause) (2009)
Featured in Merging Traditions: Jewish Life in Cleveland, by Judah Rubinstein with Jane Avner, Kent State University Press (2004)
A Form of Hope**
Staged Readings
JCC Halle Theatre (2002) (a Halle Theatre commission)
Theatre J, Washington, D.C. (2005) (salon reading)
All Things Being Equal*
Staged Readings
Weathervane Community Playhouse, Akron (2005)
Karamu House, Cleveland, part of ArenaFest (2006)
Soho Theatre, London (with the North American Actors Association Festival) (2006)
Fremont Centre Theatre, CA (2007)
Notre Dame College, OH (2008)
Prizes and Other Honors
Semi-finalist, Playlabs, Playwrights’ Center, MN (2005)
Honorable Mention, Writers’ Digest Contest (2005)
Finalist, Reva Shiner Contest (2005, 2007)
Third Place, Fremont Centre Theatre Contest (2005)
Winner, $5,000 Individual Artists Grant, Ohio Arts Council (2007)
Honorable Mention, Stage 3 New Play Contest, CA (2007)
Finalist, Dorothy Silver Playwriting Contest (2007)
Publications
Scene appears in DUO!: The Best Scenes for Two for the 21st Century, (Applause, 2009)
Included in Scenes from a Diverse World (International Centre for Women Playwrights, 2013)
U.S. v. Howard Mechanic*
adapted from Fugitive Candidate, the Autobiography of Howard Mechanic, The “Last Prisoner of the Vietnam War.”
Staged Readings
Cleveland Public Theatre (2007)
Fremont Centre Theatre, CA (2009)
Cleveland Play House, FusionFest (2009) Interplay Jewish Theatre, (2016)
Prizes and Other Honors
Second Place, Fremont Centre Theatre Contest (2008)
SCREENPLAY “HOWARD MECHANIC” (2019), winner OHIO ARTS COUNCIL INDIVIDUAL ARTIST GRANT (2021)
Telling Lives*
Productions
Dobama Theatre (2012) (Workshop)
Riverwalk Theatre, Lansing, MI, (2014)
Publications
Monologue in Mother-Daughter Monologues, International Centre for Women Playwrights (2009)
Monologue broadcast, Internet Voices Radio (2009)
Staged Readings
Dobama Theatre (2010)
Elgin Cultural Arts Commission (2012) (Artist-in-Residence)
Riverwalk Theatre, Lansing, MI (2012)
Prizes and Other Honors
Winner, $5,000 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council (2012)
Panama*
Staged Readings
Marygrove College, Detroit (2013)
Dobama Theatre (2013)
The Guide’s Guide to Lawnfield
Productions
Lakeland Community College (2017)
Caesar’s Ford Theatre (2019)
Staged Reading
Dobama Theatre (2016)
Playing Dirty
Staged Reading
Dobama Theatre (2015)
A Death in the City
Staged Reading
Dobama Theatre (2017)
A Brief History of Mah Jongg
Commissioned by Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage 2012 and performed around the country.
Published 2015, by Art Age, available at the link below:
*Works are collected at the Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
**Works are collected at both the Lawrence & Lee Archive and at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH.