Maggie Lou Rader

Playwright

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Upcoming Productions

Dragon Up!Commonwealth Theatre Center

The Wonder3rd Act Theatre

Letters from Santa Fe Trail - Mount Saint Joseph University

Blood to Drink - details coming soon!

LET. HER. RIP. - details coming soon!

Like Demons - details coming soon!

 

Awards

The Helpers
Winner, 2021 Theater J Patty Abramson Prize for Emerging Playwrights  
Semifinalist, 2022 Garry Marshall New Works Festival
Finalist, 2021 Utah Shakespeare Festival, Words Cubed
Finalist, 2021 Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women

Conferring by the Parlor Fire
Winner, Red Bull Theatre Short New Play Festival
Winner, brooklynONE Productions New Works Festival

They Played in Peoria
Finalist, Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival

The Wonder
Semifinalist, 2021 Eugene O'Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference

Like Demons
Semifinalist, 2020 UP Theater's Renewal Reading Series

Dragon Up!
Finalist, 2020 Central Florida Community Arts TYA New Play and Musical Festival

My Plays

 

About Maggie Lou Rader

An award-winning playwright, member of the Dramatist’s Guild and AEA Actor, Maggie Lou Rader (she/her/hers) tells epic stories of epic women. Her work has been published and seen regionally, Off-Broadway, and on Tony Award winning stages. She's obtained degrees from William Jewell College in Kansas City and the Birmingham School of Acting in the UK and has called Cincinnati home for nearly 10 years. She has been the winner of The Theater J Patty Abramson Jewish Play Prize and the Notre Dame College New Play festival and was selected for Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Words Cubed Program. She has also been a finalist for the Henley Rose Playwrighting Award for Women, Central Florida Community Arts TYA New Play and Musical Festival, a semi-finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Garry Marshall Theatre New Works Festival, Dayton Playhouse’s Future Fest, and UP Theater's Renewal Reading Series. She’s has had the privilege of having her work developed at DePaul University, Inkwell Theatre, Skeleton Rep, and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Her plays have been seen at Know Theatre of Cincinnati, InBocca Performance, Commonwealth Theatre Center, The Marsh, Eclectic Full Contact Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare, Urban Stages, Theatre Pro Rata, and colleges from coast to coast. She’s also been published with Smith and Kraus and Madwomen in the Attic.