Lavonne Mueller's play, LETTERS TO A DAUGHTER FROM PRISON, about Nehru and his daughter, Indira, was produced at the First International Festival of the Arts in New York City and went on to tour in India. Her play, VIOLENT PEACE, was produced in London and was the "Critics Choice" in Time Out Magazine. Her play, LITTLE VICTORIES directed by Bryna Wortman, was produced by the Women's Project in New York City and was later produced in Tokyo by Theatre Classic Productions and directed by Riho Mitachi. Her play, THE ONLY WOMAN GENERAL directed by Bryna Wortman, was produced by the Women's Project in New York City and starred Colleen Dewhurst and later went on to the Edinburgh Festival where it was "Pick of the Fringe" by the Scotland critics.

She was awarded the Roger Stevens Playwriting Award which she received at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She is a Woodrow Wilson Scholar, a Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writing Fellow, and has received a Guggenheim Grant, a Rockefeller Grant, three National Endowment for the Arts Grants, a Fulbright to Argentina, an Asian Culture Council Grant to Calcutta, and a U.S. Friendship Commission Grant to Japan.

Her plays have been published by Dramatist Play Service, Samuel French, Applause Books, Performing Arts Journal, Theatre Communication Group, Heinemann Books and Baker's Plays. Her textbook, CREATIVE WRITING, published by Doubleday and The National Textbook Company is used by students around the world. She has taught at Columbia University for five years. As a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Scholar, she has helped colleges around the United States set up writing programs. She has been an Arts America speaker for the USIS (United States Information Service) in India, Finland, Romania, Japan, the former Yugoslavia, and Norway. She was recently a Fulbright Fellow to Jordan and also received a National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to do research in Paris. She has been a writing fellow at the Edward Albee Foudation, the Djerassi Foundation, Hawthorden Castle in Scotland and Funduncio Valperasio in Spain.

She has edited three books of monologues for Heinemann: BASEBALL MONOLOGUES, ELIVIS MONOLOGUES, and MONOLOGUES FROM THE ROAD. Her play, AMERICAN DREAMERS, was selected for the book Best American Short Plays, Applause Books, 1995-96. Her play, THE CONFESSION OF MANY STRANGERS, was produced at The White Barn Theatre and has been published in Best American Short Plays 1998 (Applause Books) as well as Oxford Press. Her play, CARRYING THE LIGHT, opened in Tokyo. Her textbook on creative writing is published by Doubleday/National Textbook Company. Her play Hotel Splendid was in a festival with Boston Theatre Works, April 2001, and recieved the 2001 award for outstanding drama opposing war and injustice, given by Peace Writing, drected by Dick Bennett, and sponsored by the consortium of peace, research, and development (COPRED).

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LAVONNE MUELLER
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P.O. Box 1820
New York City, New York 10023
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