Plays of Dennis Clontz
To be published soon:
1994 Pulitzer Prize / Nicholl Fellowship winner
Dennis Clontz…dies at 53, of smoking.. (lung cancer) on 6-14-04 at 3:45 AM at his home in Glendale.
Resident of Glendale California. No surviving relatives…
DENNIS CLONTZ: As a playwright, Dennis Clontz has received over 50 productions nationwide. His play, Generations, (produced at the Colony Studio Theater) was named one of the best three new plays of 1990 by the American Drama Critics Association along with August Wilson's The Piano Lesson and Richard Dresser's The Downside. Other Los Angeles productions of his plays, which have garnered him 3 Drama-Logue Playwriting Awards, include Night Breath (which won 13 Drama-Logue Awards), Interfusions, Fire/Photograph, American Play and A Match Made in Heaven.
He is the recipient of over a dozen national writing awards including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Nicholl Fellowship.
He received his MFA in Playwriting from UCLA. He was part of a team that won a 1994 Pulitzer Prize for on the spot reporting about the Northridge earthquake that struck that year.
His film Treasures Beyond Winning was funder by the Nichol Fellowship Award and was also a winning script in Kevin Spacey’s Trigger Street Films.
