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James McManus is the recipient of the 2006 Princess Grace Award in playwriting for his play, Cherry Smoke, which was recently published by Samuel French. Plays include Blood Potato, Cement City, Underground, Sheena, Cherry Smoke, Bulldog Whiskey, Dorothy 6 and The Night They Drugged the Orange. His plays have been performed and developed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Clockwork Theatre, Diverse City Theatre, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, New Dramatists, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, The Inkwell, Irish Repertory Theatre, Lark Play Development Center and the August Wilson Center for African American Culture. He was a 2007 & 2008 finalist for the PONY Fellowship and a two-time recipient of the Schubert Fellowship for Dramatic Writing at Carnegie Mellon University where he received his MFA in 2006. McManus’ short film, Loves and Bones, is currently in post-production.

Labels: Bio, Class of 2006