Jo Adamson

I've had my one-act plays performed in Washington, Oregon, California, Florida, and Canada. Several of my plays have appeared on cable television, including the KOMO Eight Decade Consortium (hosted by Ed Asner)that included an excerpt of a verse play, Bound in Shallows. I'm listed in "Women in the American Theatre," by Helen Krich Chinoy and Linda Walsh Jenkins. My full-length play, "She was the Kind," and won The James Sunwall Prize for new comedy at the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre, in Gainesville, Florida. My plays have been excerpted in the following Smith & Kraus anthologies: Transformation Scene inThe Best Stage Scenes of 1996; Doppelganger in The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1996; The Wax Cradle and Dialogue of Self & Soul in The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 1997; A Body Not Greatly Changed in The Best Stage Scenes of 1997, and in The Best Men's Stage Monologues of 1997; andTeotwawki in The Best Women's Stage Monologues of 2000. Doppelganger is also excerpted in Even More Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann Books, 2001).

The Wax Cradle, a full-length play about Louisa May Alcott, is listed with Drama Source. "Doppelganger" is available for ordering from Playscripts, Inc.

Transformation Scene is also included in Singular Voices: Monologues from the International Centre for Women Playwrights, and Teotwawki,is included in One on One The Best Women's Monologues for the 21st Century, Applause Books, 2007. A play The Great Wall is included in Mother/Daughter Monologues, Volume 1: Babes and Beginnings, International Centre for Women Playwrights, 2009.

I am a published short story, article, and poetry writer. Twice my poetry was accepted for the Poetry Bus Project in Seattle, Washington.