ABOUT DIANA WEEKS

Producer - Playwright - Educator

DIANA WEEKS is a former political correspondent and a member of the Board of Governors for Texas Nonprofit Theatres, responsible for initiating the TNT Playwright-in-Residence Program. She has taught theatre in elementary schools for the Texas Institute for Art in Education, and is an art educator for the Texas Commission for the Arts.

Original plays include:

THE SURVIVAL OF "KITTY" MCDOWELL (recently produced at the Alamo Theater in San Antonio)
A LITTLE LITE LARCENY
JANEY AND THE TEXAS HEROES
MYTH-CONCEPTIONS (commissioned by Planned Parenthood).

And musicals written with KATE PAXTON:

BACK HOME
CURIOUS CHRISTMAS CRASH
THE TURKEY REBELLION
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Producer Diana Weeks and Box Office Manager Roslyn Cash.

Recently produced shows include:

BOHEMIAN GROVE - by Australian playwright Jeremy Johnson
TOLSTOY IS DEAD (in English and French) - by award-winning Houston playwright Elizabeth Gilbert
WRITE ON WATER - A theatre/dance drama by Vanessa Curto
BODY RATIO: 1.8 - A co-production with Women's Works
RAY HILL: The Prison Years - "BEST ONE-MAN SHOW" -- Houston Press
RAY HILL: Sex Police
"I think Ray Hill is an important scourge. . . I think (the show) could go to any major city . . . The abuses he talks about, the anti-gay prejudice -- those are present in all the major cities." -- Playwright Edward Albee, three-time Pulitzer Prize dramatist

DIANA WEEKS has produced KIDS/ART - a 30-minute TV show for the City of Houston municipal channel, and she plans to take Ray Hill: The Prison Years on a national college campus tour in 2000.

See COMING ATTRACTIONS for more on this and other productions.

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Very Special Thanks to MARGIE BEEGLE, partner in charge of the media/graphics department.

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