Jeff Carter (playwright) of San Francisco, formerly of Easton, studied theatre at the University of Maine at Presque Isle and the former American Center for the Performing Arts in Boston.
Plays that he has had produced include: “Veteranns” at the Boston Center for the Arts; “California Campsite” at the Open Door Theatre, Boston; “Harvest” at the Illustrated Stage in San Francisco; and “Lorraine” at the Alternative Theater Ensemble in San Rafael, Calif.
His “Nightscape With Figures” and “Pastoral Paranoia” were finalist and semi-finalist, respectively, at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. His one-act “Break of Day” won the grand prize at the 2007 Moving Arts Theatre Festival in Los Angles. A longer one-act play, “A Gentler Place,” took second place in the Kernodle Playwriting Competition and was produced in The Alternative Theatre Ensemble.
Other one-acts have been produced at the Marsh and Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco; the Marin Theatre Company, in San Francisco; SUNY Brockport; Theatre Three on Long Island; Two Chairs Theatre Company in Grand Junction, Colo.; and Adelphi University.
He has been a finalist in five of the National Ten-Minute Play Contests at the Actors Theatre of Luisville. His two-act play, “Homeland Prayer” – the wrenching glimpse into the life of a contemporary American family turned upside-down by the return of a wounded young soldier – recently closed a two-week run at the Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View, Calif. This play won him the John Gassner Memorial Playwritng Award for 2007.
Carter is the son of Clair and Eldora Carter of Easton.
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