BIOGRAPHY
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Alan Olejniczak is a San Francisco based playwright, opera librettist, and member of the Micro Galleries International Collective. Helt Texas, his new play about climate change and contemporary discourse is currently in post-production as an on-line drama with Proscenium in Hong Kong. Both will be launched this spring. Death of Ivan Ilych with music by John Young, will get its world premiere with Thompson Street Opera Company in Chicago, September 2021. Alan is a board member of Opera Parallèle and a member of The Dramatist Guild and Opera America.
Alan's plays have been produced across the country: Transgress, Dominion, and Present Tense. 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 those in Pātan, Nepal; 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 |