BIOGRAPHY
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Alan Olejniczak is a San Francisco based playwright and librettist. Alan is the Playwright in Residence with The Proscenium, an online theatre company based in Hong Kong. Their first season includes his plays: Next of Kin, Helt Texas, WorkForce, along with his adaption of A Christmas Carol with David Ricardo-Pearce. Alan is also a member of the Micro Galleries International Collective, a socially conscious global arts initiative. Alan's plays have been produced. across the country: Dominion, HOUSE/Home, and Present Tense. Next year his first opera, Death of Ivan Ilych with music by John Young, will get it's world premiere partnership with Opera Orlando and Thompson Street Opera Company in Chicago. Alan currently has five other chamber operas in development. Alan is also collaborating on his first sci-fi graphic novel called Amor Fati with graphic artist Beau Bateman.
Last October, Alan was chosen as an Artist in Residence for Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park and the first playwright ever selected by the National Parks Arts Foundation. Alan’s other artist residencies include: Micro Galleries in Pātan, Nepal; Nes Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland; along with the prestigious The Arctic Circle Residency, sailing the icy waters around The International Territory of Svalbard. Full Playwrighting Resume Alan came late to dramatic writing. In past lives, he was a wine professional for twelve years, started his career at the City Grill in Atlanta and ending as the Sommelier of the Dining Room of the Ritz Carton - Buckhead, a Mobil Five-Star, AAA Five Diamond restaurant. He then went on to become a Special Educator working for sixteen years with elementary and middle-school students with a focus on reading acquisition. He and his husband live between San Francisco and The Sea Ranch. "How in the heck do you pronounce that last name?" OH/la/KNEE/check |