Werner Trieschmann

Werner Trieschmann is a playwright, director and theatre instructor. He was writer and director for the world premiere production of "Mozart: Revealed" and "Schubert: Revealed" with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic in Fort Wayne, Indiana. His numerous plays have been produced across the United States, Canada and, most recently, in England, Australia, Japan and Romania. His plays including "Failing the Improv," "You Have to Serve Somebody" and "The Clawfoot and Hot Tub Interviews" have been staged by Moving Arts in Los Angeles, Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York City, The New Theatre in Boston, Mobtown Players in Baltimore and the Arkansas Repertory Theatre in Little Rock. His full-length comedy, "You Have to Serve Somebody," is published by Dramatic Publishing and his plays, "The Absolute Most Cliched Elevator Play in the History of the Entire Universe," "It’s Not You, It’s You" and others are published by "Playscripts." His monologues have appeared in "The Best Women's Stage Monologues 1999" and "Audition Arsenal for Women in Their 20s," published by Smith & Kraus. In 2013 Trieschmann was awarded an Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship in Playwriting. His play, "Lawn Dart," won first prize in the Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans New Play Competition. He was the first playwright to receive the Porter Prize, an Arkansas literary award recognizing outstanding achievement by an Arkansas writer. He has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Playwriting) from Boston University. Trieschmann lives in Little Rock and works as an instructor at Pulaski Technical College, where he teaches theatre, film and scriptwriting and is the director of Pulaski Tech’s Big Rock On the Map Series. He is married and has two boys, who are wilder than wild.