Bio
 
Vincent Delaney’s plays include THE ART OF BAD MEN, PERPETUA, MLK AND THE FBI, and KUWAIT, which won the Heideman Award and was produced in the Humana Festival. His work has been developed at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Magic, Woolly Mammoth, the Empty Space, the Jungle, PlayLabs, the Illusion, the New Harmony Project, Pittsburgh Public and the Orlando Shakespeare Festival. Commissions include the Guthrie, the Children’s Theatre Company, ACT, the Cleveland Playhouse, the Great American History Theatre, and a Jerome Commission from Commonweal Theatre. His short play ACCELERATION RED won the Lamia Ink! playwriting contest and was featured at Harrogate Theatre (UK). He is the recipient of a Bush Fellowship, a McKnight Fellowship, the University of Alabama’s Apsey Award, and an Artist Grant from the Seattle Arts Commission. His work is published by Smith and Kraus, Heineman, Samuel French, Dramatics Magazine and Playscripts.com. Vince is a Core Member of the Playwrights Center and a Principal Playwright with Seattle Dramatists. 
Vince has taught and held residencies at St. Olaf College, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Gustavus Adolphus College, the Guthrie, and Augsburg College. He teaches Playwriting for ACT Theatre, Freehold, and Seattle Central.
SEATTLE DRAMATISTS
Vincent Delaney
Current Plays
 
Three Screams
Synopsis:
This morning in Oslo, Edvard Munch’s Scream was stolen. Again.  Who keeps taking this painting?  And why?  THREE SCREAMS charts the twisted comic journey of a masterpiece, and the thieves who can’t leave it alone.
Cast:
1W, 2M
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Kuwait
Synopsis:
Winner of the Heideman Award from Actors Theatre of Louisville, KUWAIT explores the twisted marriage between the military and media.  Rachel is a high powered reporter who steps off the trail: no longer embedded with the troops, she slips away to find her own truth.  Kelsey is the young Marine who finds her, and brings her on a nightmare journey into the realities of American violence.   Based on true events in the Gulf, KUWAIT takes a sharp look at ambition, violence, and the media
Cast:
3W, 1M
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The Art of Bad Men
Synopsis:
It’s 1945.  Thousands of German prisoners of war live in camps scattered throughout the U.S.  Some are dedicated Nazis, some are barely old enough to hold a rifle.  What they all share is the fear of an uncertain future and the determination to reclaim their humanity.  At one camp in Minnesota, an inmate production of a Moliere play may give them a chance—either to escape or to transcend
Cast:
2W, 4M
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