BIOGRAPHY

Chicago-born playwright Craig Sodaro began writing plays in grade school and continued creating unusual dramatic pieces ("The Dismembered Pencil") in high school.  While attending Marquette University in Milwaukee, he studied playwriting and had several shows produced by the university theater company, the Marquette Players.  With a degree in journalism and English, Sodaro began a teaching career that would last thirty-three years.   During that time he continued to write plays, often for schools or theatrical groups with which he worked.  This led to his first published play, "Forlorn at the Fort" (Plays magazine), a melodrama written for the Wyoming-based Frontier Outlaw Troupe which he directed for thirteen years.  In 1976, Sodaro's first full-length play, Tea and Arsenic, appeared, and since then he has had over one hundred plays published by various play publishers throughout the country.  His plays Hush, Little Baby, and Second Hand Kid were performed in New York and Los Angeles, and his works have been produced around the world.  Currently a dozen of his plays have been translated into the Dutch.  Among many writing awards, Sodaro has twice won the Jackie White Memorial Children's Playwriting Award. He now writes full time and lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his wife Sue.  They have four daughters, Sally, Amy, Katie, and Betsy.