Barbara Schneider

Life

Productions of Plays: (1978–1985)

• Verdict on the Shooting of a Police Officer Washington Square Church, New York City
• Turtles: New York Shakespeare Festival
• Details Without a Map O’Neill National Playwrights Conference/Waterford, CT. Stage # 1, Dallas, TX. Actors’ Studio Theatre Off-Park, New York City
• Crossings Yellow Springs Playwrights Conference, PA. National Public Radio
• Flight Lines, commissioned by the Actor's Theatre of Louisville. Actors Theatre of Louisville - Festival Production
• Turbulence Philadelphia Festival Theatre - Annenberg Center
• Echo-Location Circle Rep New York State Theater for Cultural Affairs New American Play Festival/University of California Humboldt State 1986

• I. GEGENWIND for the State Theatre of Dresden/Germany. In the course of a six-month residency as Artistic Project Director at the State Theatre of Dresden, she worked with a group of thirty young people of different backgrounds between the ages of 16-25 to create, write and perform a theatre work consisting of scenes, monologues, performance pieces and short plays. This work explored the often dramatic and unforeseen human consequences on these young people’s lives, their parents and friends, of the Fall of the Wall and the Re-Unification of Germany.
• II. IN FAHRT for the City Theatre of Leipzig/Germany. She conducted a six-month residency as Artistic Project Director at the City Theatre of Leipzig, resulting in the collaborative work of thirty-five young writers and actors exploring themes of love, violence and greed in the “New” Germany.

Publications, honors and awards

• 1979-1980 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize for DETAILS WITHOUT A MAP
• O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
• NY State Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowship
• Theater der Zeit, “The Heart of the Matter” a.o.