Tiffany Antone was born in a small town in Arizona, where she developed a life-saving tolerance for dry heat and cottonwood trees. She moved to the land of imagination and golden statues (or Los Angeles) when she was just 19, and found the cool welcome breeze of the ocean infinitely more charming than those dry desert landscapes.
Although acting had lured her there, it was writing that really took her breath away, and so it wasn’t long till she was proudly clutching a handful of degrees by her side and sporting an “I will conquer this town” attitude. Unfortunately for her, she finished the UCLA graduate playwriting program just as the national banks were folding and the economy was imploding, and nobody – not even the restaurant that had funded much of her graduate studies – was hiring.
After eighteen months of peanut butter sandwiches and fish-sticks, Tiffany finally landed a full-time (re: NOT temporary) job, doing something she actually cares about; teaching and offering college learning support. Unfortunately, the job was back in that small town in Arizona, and although she appreciates being close to her family once again, she oft roams the desert with stuffy nose, puffy eyes, and sweaty everything, yearning to once again be walking near the gentle ocean waves where she imagines she left her much under-appreciated allergy defense system.
Tiffany was a 2008 Hawthornden Fellow, which included a writing residency in Scotland, and a 2009 Sherwood Award Finalist with Center Theatre Group. Tiffany has received the Tim Robbins Award for plays of social importance, James Pendelton Foundation Prize, Hal Kanter Award in Comedy Writing, Dini Ostrov Stage Spirit Award in Playwriting, the Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Scholarship, and the Florence Theil Herrscher Award.
Her plays have been read and/or performed in Los Angeles, New York, and Minneapolis. Tiffany’s play Cricket Woman Mother Earth (Or) A Nasty Comeuppance was a 2011 O’Neill Finalist. Her plays Ana and the Closet and Twigs and Bone were both Jerome Finalists and O’Neil semi-finalist for 2009 and 2010. And and the Closet was also presented at The Kennedy Center’s Page to Stage Festival in 2009. Her play In the Company of Jane Doe was a Princess Grace semi-finalist in 2006, a winner of the New Plays on Campus series with The Playwrights’ Center, and winner of the 2008 New Works for Young Women contest with the University of Tulsa. In the Company of Jane Doe received its world premier in January 2010 at The Powerhouse Theatre (LA Theatre Ensemble). Tiffany’s play The Good Book was a winner of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway play festival and is available through Samuel French publishing.
Tiffany is a member of The Dramatists Guild, The Playwright’s Center and The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (for whom she is also a contributing blogger). She is also the Education Director for the Prescott Center for the Arts, and editor for the webzine LosAnglesFAIL.com. She is the founder/Director of Little Black Dress INK, and co-founder of The@trics, through which she has produced two new play festivals as well as coordinated multiple theatrical marketing campaigns. All of her volunteer affiliations means she has very little free time, but when she does find a moment to spare, she usually spends it writing for her own blog (www.AwdsAndEnds.com) reading, watching movies, or dealing with the obnoxious laundry‐village in her bedroom that never seems to go away.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to contact Tiffany regarding her work, you may email her at: TiffanyAntone – at – yahoo.com