Donna Hoke

Author, Dialogue Editor, Dramaturge, Editor, Film/theatre Journalist, Playwright, Script Consultant, Story Analyst and Screenwriter

Buffalo, New York

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About Donna

I am an internationally produced, award-winning, agented playwright and screenwriter. I can provide my playwriting resume upon request or you can visit my website at , or my New Play Exchange page at https://newplayexchange.org/users/253/donna-hoke. I've had screenplays optioned and audioplays produced; and I've had a short "Piece of Cake" and a TV thriller, DEATH IN THE CUL-DE-SAC, made in 2023.

Donna’s work has been seen in 48 states and on five continents, including at Barrington Stage, Barrow Group, Celebration Theatre, Gulfshore Theatre, Queens Theatre, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, Theatre Aspen, The Road, Phoenix Theatre, Atlantic Stage, Purple Rose, Skylight, Pride Films and Plays, New Jersey Rep, Hens and Chickens (London), The Galway Fringe Festival, and Actors Repertory Theatre of Luxembourg. Plays include BRILLIANT WORKS OF ART (Kilroys List), ELEVATOR GIRL (O’Neill, Princess Grace, and Austin Film Festival finalist), SAFE (winner of the Todd McNerney, Naatak, and Great Gay Play and Musical Contests), and TEACH (Gulfshore New Works, O'Neill semifinalist). She has been nominated for the Primus, Blackburn, and Laura Pels prizes, and is a three-time winner of the Emanuel Fried Award for Outstanding New Play (SEEDS, SONS & LOVERS, ONCE IN MY LIFETIME). She has also received an Individual Artist Award from the New York State Council on the Arts to develop HEARTS OF STONE, and, in its final three years, Artvoice named her Buffalo's Best Writer—the only woman to ever receive the designation.

Donna also been serving the Dramatists Guild in various capacities since 2012, is an ensemble playwright at Road Less Traveled Productions, blogger, moderator of the 13,000+-member Official Playwrights of Facebook, New York Times-published crossword puzzle constructor; children's and trivia book author; and founder/co-curator of BUA Takes 10: GLBT Short Stories. Speaking engagements include Citywrights, Kenyon Playwrights Conference, the Dramatists Guild National Conference, Chicago Dramatists, the Austin Film Festival, and a live Dramatists Guild webinar. Her commentary has been seen on #2amt, howlround, The Dramatist, the Official Playwrights of Facebook, Workshopping the New Play (Applause, 2017), and at .

Unique traits: Strong voice Great at receiving/implementing notes Fast worker Adheres to deadlines

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Twelfth Night of Christmas Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance After a tenure track professor vows to change her life by the Twelfth Night of Christmas, she begins with pretending to be her filmmaker brother and ends by finding the passion that's been missing from her life.
Act Like It's Christmas Budget: $100K - $1M | Romance A burnt out NYC actress takes a break from the hustle to save her hometown theater by starring in its Christmas show, only to find herself drawn to her roots--as well as the theater's handsome founder.

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DEATH IN THE CUL-DE-SAC (2024)
Television by David Strasser (Thriller) Writer Anita is thrilled when she and husband Jack move to an exclusive neighborhood with their adopted daughter Jilly. When she is invited to join the development's "Wives Club", her calendar is suddenly filled with parties, play dates and posh lunches. But strange things keep happening and the wives are more interested in befriending Jilly than her. When she discovers a former member of the Club died suspiciously, she is certain those Wives killed her.