Biography
Patricia Montley has had 25 plays published, either separately or in anthologies or textbooks. Her plays have enjoyed readings at the Kennedy Center, Baltimore Center Stage, Rep Stage (Maryland), and the Abingdon Theatre (NYC), and productions at the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, the Manhattan Theatre Source, the Harold Clurman Theatre, the Nat Horne Theatre, Baltimore’s Theatre Project, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She was one of 50 playwrights nationally commissioned by Baltimore Center Stage to write a monologue for its “My America” project. Her work has been supported by Kennedy Center Playwrights’ Intensive, residencies at the Millay Artists' Colony in New York and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in California, and by grants from the Deutsch Foundation, the Maryland and Pennsylvania Arts Councils, the Shubert Foundation, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, the Baker Memorial Fund, and Warner Brothers. Her plays include dramas, comedies, feminist satires, adaptations of Greek classics, epic theatre, story theatre, musicals, and ten-minute pieces. She has also published poetry in The Lyric, The Classical Outlook, America, The English Journal, and Boston Review of the Arts and a non-fiction book, In Nature's Honor: Myths and Rituals Celebrating the Earth. A member of the Dramatists Guild, Dr. Montley chaired the Theatre Department at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and has taught playwriting at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, Goucher College, and Johns Hopkins University.
