About the Collaborator

Through I.U.P., Jules Tasca has taught playwrighting at Oxford University in England and he has performed with a Commedia dell’arte group in Central Italy. He is the author of over 125 (full length and one-act) published plays that have been produced in numerous national theaters from the Mark Taper Forum to the Bucks County Playhouse, as well as abroad in England, Ireland, Austria, Germany, South Africa, Canada and Australia. He has also written for radio and television. He scripted “The Hal Linden TV Special”. His plays La Llorona and Maria were produced on National Public Radio. Other one-act pieces were broadcast in Los Angeles and abroad in Germany.

 He was the national winner in New York’s Performing Arts Repertory Theater Playwrighting contest for his libretto, The Amazing Einstein, which toured the country and played at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. He has adapted the stories of Oscar Wilde, Guy deMaupassant, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, Saki and has modernized Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae (Women in Congress). He has written new versions of Hamlet and Macbeth.

His libretto for C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe had its world premiere in California and played in London and New York and is currently touring nationwide. For his play, Theater Trip, he was the recipient of a Thespie Award for Best New Play, and Old Goat Song won a drama critic’s award in Los Angeles. His plays, The Spelling of Coynes, The Death of Bliss, Deus-X and Birth of Theater have been included in the Best American Short Plays Anthology, and his recent play, The Rapture of Mammon is included in the current anthology. His tragic piece, The Balkan Women, won the prestigious Barrymore Award for Best Play. His play, The Grand Christmas History of the Andy Landy Clan, was broadcast on 47 national Public Radio Stations.

Mr. Tasca received a grant from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts to develop a new theatrical form, the Eurhythmy, a system of movement of language, music and sound. His tragedy, Judah’s Daughter, received the Dorothy Silver International Playwrighting Award. He won first prize in the Bucks County Writers’ Club Screenwriting Contest. His piece, Live Drawing, is about the relationship between Leonardo daVinci and the Mona Lisa, and has been published by the Dramatic Publishing Company. Mr. Tasca’s play, The Mission, which played at New Theatre in Florida received a Silver Palm Award from the South Florida Theatre League for best new play.  The author is a member of New York’s Dramatist Guild.