Larry Pontius

Larry Pontius is a playwright based in New York City, born and raised in the Mid-West and educated around the country, most recently receiving his MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin, where he received the Michener Fellowship.  His produced work includes: an Off-Broadway production of Umbrella by Alchemy Theatre Company of Manhattan; Fallout by Working Man's Clothes Productions and The Lunar Adventures of Dar and Matey by Stolen Chair Theater, both in New York, On Sunday Morning, by Collaboraction in Chicago; American Autobahnics at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. The Connection is Made and Running Out of Time were both ACTF Regional Ten-Minute Play Finalists.  
 
In January, The Lunar Adventures of Dar and Matey will be produced in InGenius in New York City, followed by the premiere of On The Night of Anthony's 30th Birthday Party, Again, a single door farce, produced by Whirled Peas at the Manhattan Theatre Source.
 
Readings include:  Boom Vang by Working Man's Clothes Productions, A Thousand Yard Stare at the Soho ThinkTank and Their Master's Voice by LiveWire Theatre in Chicago. A monologue from The Cost of Mathematics was published in Audition Arsenal and Bitchin' Devil Horns was published in Manhattan Theatre Source's Spontaneous Combustion Anthology.
 
His work as a screenwriter includes Qaatil, a 13 part murder mystery which aired in Pakistan in 2008.  In addition to the series, Pontius wrote several episodes for the anthology series New York Stories, which was filmed in New York and aired in Pakistan.  He was also commissioned to write a 15 part family drama and a TV movie, both set to begin filming soon and air in Pakistan next year.
 
Pontius also studied at the Dell'Arte, International School of Physical Theater and received a BA with Honors from the University of Iowa, where he received the Nicholas Meyer Scholarship for Playwriting. He is a member of The Dramatist Guild, The Playwright's Center, and Manhattan Theatre Source's Writers Forum.
 
For more information, check out: www.LPontius.com
Or his blog at www.LPontius.blogspot.com