Lane Bernes

Training

The New School for Drama MFA Candidate in playwriting, 2006- 2007

Instructors: Laura Maria Censabella, Christopher Shinn, Michael  Weller, and Pippin Parker 

Indiana University BA in theatre, focus in Playwriting, Graduated May 2006

Instructor: Dennis Reardon

Plays

New York, New York 10-Minute 

     Premiered at the Estrogenius Festival October 2008 To be Published Summer 2009

(w)hole One-Act

     Staged at the Samuel French Off-Off  Broadway  Festival (2008)

The Mercy Swing Full-Length

      Part of The New York International Fringe Festival,  (2007)

      Nominated for a 2010 Cherry Lane Mentorship.

How-To-Play- Football-And-Be-A-Man 10-Minute (2007)

Jewels: An Upper East Side Adaptation of Miss Julie One Act (2007)

The Four Questions: An Assimilation Story One-Act (2007)

Playing God Short Play

     Premiered at The Bloomington Playwrights Project (2005)

Home 10-Minute (2005)

Far From Perfect  One-Act (2004)

Best Friends Monologue

     Premiered  at The Bloomington Playwrights Project (2004)

Voices One-Act (2003)

Screenplays 

Nella Famiglia (In English)  Full-Length Screenplay (2006)

Additional Experience

Jon San Miguel Productions (2001), Writer/Facilitator, “Dying to get There, The Real Cost of Teen Driving” Award Winning Educational Video 

Languages Spoken: Italian, Hebrew, Spanish and Luganda 

Lane was born and bred in Atlanta, and has tried living in a few exotic places, including Florence, Italy, Mwotto, Uganda, Boston, Massachusetts and Bloomington, Indiana.  Lane luckily graduated from Indiana University in 2006 with a degree in Theatre and Journalism. She completed a year of MFA training at The New School for Drama.  She has studied playwriting under some of the nation's finest playwrights including Dennis Reardon, Pippin Parker, Laura Maria Censabella, Michael Weller and Christopher Shinn.  Productions include, "Bestfriends" (The Bloomington Playwrights Project) and "Playing God" (The Bloomington Playwrights Project), and "The Mercy Swing" (The New York International Fringe Festival).  Lane lives pretty close to Gramercy Park with her Puggle puppy, Sophia.  When she's not writing plays Lane works in advertising at USA Today. Lane is a member of The Dramatist Guild of America, Inc.