Round Table of the Round Table:
Biographies
Lucy Nordberg (she/her)
Lucy Nordberg (playwright) is a writer and producer, and is co-founder of film production company Moving Pictures Theatre. She has recently written and co-produced Time and Tide, a trilogy of short films starring Greta Scacchi, John Locke and Samuel West. Her scripts include King Arthur, an ambitious modern take on the legend, which was performed at the Edinburgh Festival, and subsequently picked by arts impresario Richard Demarco for a large-scale production at Craigcrook Castle. Her work has also gained academic attention, including a workshop of King Arthur at the Cambridge University Shakespeare Conference. Lucy was later involved in a crosscultural production for UIBE University in China: Chinese students adapted Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Lucy creating new blank verse for the script, which was performed in both countries. Visit the Moving Pictures Theatre website here
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Daniel James Roth (he/him)
Daniel James Roth (playwright) is an actor/writer/director. His writing endeavors have spawned scripts for plays, musicals, and television, as well as lyrics and fiction. His first completed script was a libretto for a brand new musical titled All's Fair: A New Musical, for which he also wrote the lyrics and some of the music. Daniel co-wrote a short play for a 24 Hour Play festival, titled Dawn of the War of the Planet of the Vegans (and yes, it was as ridiculous as it sounds). Most recently, Daniel's television pilot, Children of Avalon, was a finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, and a quarterfinalist in the Stage 32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Contest. To learn more about Daniel, visit www.daniel-james-roth.com
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Emily C. A. Snyder (she/they)
Emily C. A. Snyder (playwright) is the Executive Director/Founder of TURN TO FLESH PRODUCTIONS, and the host of several TTF podcasts, including Hamlet to Hamilton and DM Me! She is the premiere international scholar on writing verse drama. Her Cupid and Psyche had its New York Premiere in 2014 to sold out audiences. Her plays have been seen worldwide, from Christchurch, New Zealand to Dublin, Ireland. She is also a classical actor and director, having directed a dozen of Shakespeare's plays, and acted in pretty much all of the rest. She really, really, really, really likes verse.
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King Arthur
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The Tragedy of King Arthur
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The Table Round and
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