Diana Son
DIANA SON is the author of the plays Stop Kiss, Satellites, BOY, R.A.W. ('Cause I'm a Woman) and others. Stop Kiss and Satellites premiered at the Public Theater in NYC. Stop Kiss won the GLAAD Media Award for Best New York Production and Diana won the Berilla Kerr Award for playwriting. Stop Kiss has been produced at hundreds of theatres nationally and abroad. Her previous plays include BOY, Fishes, and R.A.W. ('Cause I'm a Woman). Amongst the theatres Diana's plays have been produced at are: the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Delaware Theatre Company, BRAVA, GeVa Theatre, People's Light and Theatre Company, and many others. Diana has been the recipient of an NEA/TCG residency grant at the Mark Taper Forum and a Brooks Atkinson Fellowship at the Royal National Theatre in London. She has taught playwriting at NYU's Department of Dramatic Writing, Yale Drama and organized a playwriting workshop for caregivers of the disabled in Los Angeles. Diana is currently on the writing staff of the new CBS t.v. series The 22 and has been a writer/producer for the series Blue Bloods, Southland, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and The West Wing. She has also written a number of t.v. pilots for CBS and A&E, a television movie for Showtime and feature films for Fine Line and Robert Greenwald Productions. She's a member of the Writer's Guild of America, East; the Dramatists Guild; Women in Theatre and is an alumnus of New Dramatists. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and 3 sons. Bio as of October, 2011. American Theatre Wing programs, interviews and/or credits include: Working in the Theatre (video) The Play That Changed My Life - December, 2009 - Watch now. The Playwright - February, 2006 - Watch now. Internet Broadway Database Listing (IBDB.com)