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THE UBER CHRONICLES

When Andy was fired from his well-paying job as an Executive Director of an arts festival, his severance dwindled quickly, and he eventually was forced to…become an Uber driver. THE UBER CHRONICLES is his true, inside story of looking for work in the arts while navigating Washington D.C., his family, an unstable economy, and the bizarre industry that is not-for-profit arts.

  • Todd Olson
    Writer
  • Project Type:
    Stage Play
  • Genres:
    Drama, comedy
  • Number of Pages:
    65
  • Language:
    English
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Writer Biography - Todd Olson

Produced works include I Left My Heart (Milwaukee Rep), Casa Blue, the last moments in the life of Frida Kahlo (American Stage), and My Way (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville).

Todd’s new adaptations include Lysistrata, War of the Worlds, and Dracula (premiered at the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival in 2010).

Works in progress include Citizen Thorpe, Hurricane Brothers (with music by Rob Hartmann), and Section 60 (with music by Waldo Wittenmyer).

Joe Corso Re-Enters from the Wings was workshopped at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors’ Theatre Winter Playlab in 2010. It won the 2012 Holland New Voices Playwright Award at the Great Plains Theatre Conference and is now published on Amazon.com.

Todd received his M.F.A. from The University of North Carolina, and is a graduate from the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard where he took classes with David Mamet, Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Robert Scanlan, Robert Woodruff, Anna Deveare Smith, and Robert Brustein, among others. Todd has been a Teaching Fellow at Harvard, and taught classes at Vanderbilt, Boston University, and the University of North Carolina.

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