Rosa Nagle

"I come with no presents, unluckily --only/fingernails, eyelashes, melted pianos,/with dreams bubbling out of my breast". Pablo Neruda's "Ode With A Lament" is every poet's ode, I think. It's my ode. I share on the page the dreams housed within me. My restless soul I embody in living characters, on the stage.

I am an alum of Company One Theatre of Boston's PlayLab and Masterclass. My play GHOST STORIES was a Semi-Finalist for the Eugene O'Neill Prize, 2017. My play LOVELY RENATA was published in The Dionysian magazine, Issue 003, on June 1, 2017.

My play ON THE DEATH OF JUNE was a finalist in Two Paths Productions' Summer Festival, 2014. In addition, ...JUNE had its world premiere during the NYNW Play Festival, August 21, 2014. This play also received an LCC grant from the town of Ashland in 2015.

My short plays have been in several festivals. My latest one-act TAKE MY HAND was part of Artists from Suburbia's Second One Act Festival, in June, 2017.

My full-length play 3 had two staged reading in 2015: during the DreamCatchers Entertainment reading series Talent On Tap, on May 11; and during Wordsmyth Theatre's Monday night reading series on June 1st.. 3 was also a semi-finalist in the Play Penn Conference, 2015.

In December, 2015, my play BLOOD CAKE was adapted to a radio play by OnAir Players. This play is in a collection of shorts entitled GHOSTS:FIVE TALES which had a reading at the Watertown Free Public Library on October 24, 2015.

I am a co-producer and writer with the outdoor troupe Contemporary Park Shorts. In July 2016, my outdoor/immersive play OCTOBER was performed at Spy Pond, Arlington, MA. In the Fall of 2017, my comedy TANGLES IN YOUR TEETH will be performed outdoors, in Arlington, MA.

My poetry has been published in a few literary magzines, most recently, my poem "Long Winter" was published in the 'Artistic Muse', April, 2014. My book of poetry "From Zephyr's Ankles" was published in 2009.