Lee Phenner

Lee Phenner holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College, where she received Duprey awards for screenwriting and poetry and was selected for the Ploughshares International Fiction Seminar at Kasteel Well, Netherlands. An Oregon Shakespeare Festival Black Swan Lab writer, her creative works include the book and lyrics for A PINT OF UNDERSTANDING (music by Joel LaRue Smith and Joseph Smith), the screenplay CELIA THEN AND NOW, which placed in the MORE Women in Film Screenplay Contest, the dramatic monologue SYNAPTIC FIRES, produced by Brave New World Repertory Theatre, and CIRCLE OF THE FIRST, a choral work co-written with composer Robert D. Terrio that premiered at Rider University. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.