John Doble
New York, NY
John Doble is a playwright and author based in Manhattan, winner of the prestigious Humanitas New Voices Award for his new screenplay.
Biography

The AMEN Sisterhood, screenplay. Winner HUMANITAS New Voices Award.

The Rommel Gambit, screenplay. Winner Big Apple Film Festival Screenplay Award, top 6% The Nicholl Fellowship.

To Protect the Poets, full-length play. NYC Fringe Festival; Shortlisted New American Voices Festival UK; Semi-Finalist, Road Theatre Co., LA; Playwrights Foundation, SF; Arias Theatre showcase, NYC, and Semi-Finalist, Best New Play, Playwrights First and Reverie Productions.

Reunion Run, full-length play. NYC Fringe Festival; Finalist, New Works of Merit, NYC.

A Serious Person, one-act play. Arts & Letters Prize for Drama, GA; Write Angles Playwriting Festival, Westcliff-on-Sea, UK; Best Play, Belper, UK, One-Act Competition; Finalist, Best Play, Haylofters One Act Festival, WI; Finalist, Nantucket Short Play Festival, Manhattan Rep, NYC, and Eclectic Company Theatre, LA.

Tatyana and the Cable Man, one-act play. The Space One Festival, London; Best Play, Midtown Short Play Festival, NYC.

Three Blind Dates: See How They Run, three one-act plays. Hollywood Fringe Festival; Finalist Best Play, Midtown International Theatre Festival, NYC.

Coffee House, Greenwich Village, one-act play. Neil LaBute New Theater Festival, 59E59 Theater and St. Louis; Arundel Trail Festival, UK; Finalist, Nantucket Short Play Festival, and Midwinter Madness, NYC.

The Mayor Who Would Be Sondheim, full-length play. NYC Fringe Festival; Finalist, Best New Play, Stage 3 Theatre Company, Sonora, CA; Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN.

Blind Date, one-act play. Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Original Short-Play Festival, NYC.

Nothing New Under the Sun, one-act comedy. William Faulkner Literary Competition, Winner, 3rd prize, New Albany, MS; Short Play Festival, Nantucket, MA.

Twilight Time, one-act comedy. Neil LaBute New Theater Festival, St. Louis Actors’ Studio, St. Louis; Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Valdez, AK.

ESP, ten-minute comedy. Winner, The Acronym Plays, Urban Stages, Off-Broadway, NYC; Camino Real Playhouse, San Juan Capistrano, CA; Orange County Arts Ten-Minute Play Festival, Goshen, NY; Birdhouse Theatre, Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA.

Try Try Again, ten-minute comedy. S.O.P.S. Short Play Festival, Shawnee Playhouse, PA.

Postcards from a Bench, four one-act plays. Hollywood Encore Producer's Award, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Los Angeles.

Short stories published by various literary magazines and Lefty and Other Stories, a collection, published by Clemson University, nominated for the Southern Book Award and the Pushcart Prize.

Member The Dramatists Guild and The Playwrights’ Center.

Successes

Try, Try Again selected Finalist

John's ten-minute comedy, Try, Try Again was selected Finalist in the S.O.P.S. Short Play Festival at Shawnee Playhouse, Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA, where it will receive a reading later this month, and possible production next season.

Postcards from a Bench wins the Hollywood Encore Producer’s Award.

The show, a recent Hollywood Fringe Festival selection, is a program of four short comedies written by John Doble, produced and directed by JC Gafford. It will have an additional virtual performance on Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. PDT.

A Serious Person wins the Arts & Letters Drama Prize. A Serious Person and two of John’s other plays, Tatyana and the Cable Man and ESP will be performed in April at the Birdhouse Theatre in Milledgeville, Georgia, directed by Georgia College faculty member, actor and playwright, Iona Holder.

John has won the prestigious 2019-2020 Humanitas New Voices Award with his screenplay, THE AMEN SISTERHOOD. Winning writers receive a grant and are recognized at the annual awards ceremony in Hollywood in January.

John’s play Three Blind Dates was featured in the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

These three short plays have won acclaim in the LaBute Theater Festival in NYC and St. Louis; MITF in NYC; the Eclectic Company Theatre, LA; the Nantucket Short Play Festival; and the One Festival in London.