Playwright

Walter Thinnes

Finalist with staged reading, New Plays Festival, Centre Stage, Greenville SC

Semi-Finalist, 51st Annual Stanley Drama Awards, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY

Runner-up and Staged Reading at Piccolo Spoleto Festival; Todd McNerney Play Competition; College of Charleston School for the Arts, Charleston SC

Selected Reading, Polaris North Studios, Third Tuesday Reading Series, Featuring Pamela Wilson, Lena Gilbert, Bruce Barton, Bill Rowley, David Walters, David Elyha, Michael Selkirk and Phillip Filiato; New York NY

Selected Reading; New York Chapter, National Academy for Television Arts and Sciences; New York, NY

Included in the Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute Library at The Ohio State University

DADDY WILL BE

BURIED TONIGHT

Significant Re-write of THE WILLOW GROVE
5m 2f
4 Scenes, no intermission
Interior Unit Set
Her father has died the night before and Margaret calls together family members and friends for a burial that must happen this night and must take place on the family property.  By the end of the day certain family secrets are revealed and others are more deeply buried than ever.

Finalist, Stellar Networks Plays-In-Progress Competition, New York, NY