Author Profile:  James DeVita

James DeVita, a native of Long Island, N.Y., is a playwright and author.  His novels include The Silenced, Blue, and A Winsome Murder.  His plays for young audiences include The Amazing Lemonade Girl, The Thief Lord, A Midnight Cry:  The Underground Railroad to Freedom, The Rose of Treason, A Little House Christmas, The Prince and the Pauper, Zero Tolerance, Wonderland!, The Christmas Angel, Treasure Island, Excavating Mom (Dinosaur!), The Three Musketeers, Looking Glass Land, Bambi — A Life in the Woods, Arthur — The Boy Who Would Be King, Swiss Family Robinson, Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Trials:  The Story of Joan of Arc, and Beth.  DeVita’s plays have won several awards, including the AATE Distinguished Play Award and the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwriting Contest, and AATE honored his body of work with the Charlotte B.  Chorpenning Playwright Award in 2007.  In 2004, he received an NEA Literature Fellowship for fiction.  DeVita is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

For more information, check out JamesDevita.com and American Players Theatre.