Sally Nemeth

The bio on my website is much chattier and more fun than this. This is the one I send out when I'm trying to get a job -

Sally Nemeth was born in Chicago and after a childhood spent in Indiana, Delaware and Alabama, she returned to Chicago to attend Northwestern University as a theatre major. Following graduation, she worked extensively in Chicago's Off Loop theatres, founding Chicago New Plays, a playwrights' collective.

After leaving Chicago and moving to New York, she received her first major play premiere in London at the Soho Poly Theatre. The play, "Holy Days", won a number of London Fringe Theatre awards. South Coast Repertory in California produced the U.S. premiere of the play, and that production also won numerous awards from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle. Following the success of "Holy Days", her play "Mill Fire" premiered at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago and had its U.K. premiere at the Bush Theatre in London. Both plays have subsequently been professionally produced across the United States and throughout the English-speaking world.

She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and a new play commission from South Coast Repertory. Her plays in publication include "Holy Days", "Mill Fire", "Water Play" and "Sally's Shorts", an evening of short plays written for women.

Her work in television began on the hit NBC TV show "Law & Order" where her scripts won awards from the American Bar Association and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. She's written long-form television projects for every major network, and her screenplay, IBEJI is currently under option.

Her first novel, "The Heights, the Depths, and Everything In Between", written for young adult readers, was published by Knopf in the summer of 2006.

She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, PEN West, SCBWI, and the Writers Guild of America, west. She can be visited on the web at www.sallynemeth.com