Author Profile: Burton Bumgarner
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Burton Bumgarner grew up in North Carolina, where he now lives and works as a professional musician. He began writing plays in 1994, and has worked as a director and musical director, and run lights and sound. He also makes a very courteous and helpful usher. To date he has written over 60 plays, including full length comedies and dramas, one acts, and seasonal plays. Many of his scripts are particularly appropriate for middle and high school students. They have large casts, single sets and are broken down into easily rehearsed scenes. He has written scripts based on literature read in schools, such as Beowulf: User Friendly, The Canterbury Tales...or Geoffrey Chaucer’s Flying Circus, and The Idi-Odyssey. Burton also writes under the pen name Andrew Ross, with titles such as Much Ado About Coconuts, No Place Like Nowhere, and North Woods Nonsense.
In 2001 and 2004 he won the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting from the Coldwater Community Theater, Coldwater Michigan. In 2004 he won the Mc Laren Memorial Comedy Playwriting Festival in Midland, Texas.
Burton’s plays have been produced across the United States and Canada, and have been translated into Dutch. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Greensboro College, and a Masters of Music from Southern Methodist University. When he’s not writing he’s thinking about writing.
For more information about Burton, visit his web page.
