The Umpire Has No Balls

Debbie Bolsky is a playwright, screenwriter and producer. She has written twelve stage plays and screenplays, currently in various stages of development, that feature strong and layered roles for women. Her work explores themes of death, baseball, and politics. Her stage play, Ashes to Ashes, enjoyed a successful six week run in Los Angeles December 2017-January 2018. Bolsky’s past theatre and film experience includes, production of her stage play, Biking With Andrew Scott (2008), co-founder of The Athena Cats, a collective of SoCal female playwrights and directors, executive producer of the stage play Blueprint for Paradise (2016), associate producer on the independent film Rogues (2003), executive producer on the documentary, Carless In L.

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Debbie Bolsky is a playwright, screenwriter and producer. She has written twelve stage plays and screenplays, currently in various stages of development, that feature strong and layered roles for women. Her work explores themes of death, baseball, and politics. Her stage play, Ashes to Ashes, enjoyed a successful six week run in Los Angeles December 2017-January 2018. Bolsky’s past theatre and film experience includes, production of her stage play, Biking With Andrew Scott (2008), co-founder of The Athena Cats, a collective of SoCal female playwrights and directors, executive producer of the stage play Blueprint for Paradise (2016), associate producer on the independent film Rogues (2003), executive producer on the documentary, Carless In L.A. (2016), and vice president, media advertising at Columbia Pictures. She is a contributor to and associated with Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative (LAFPI) and an active member of The Dramatist Guild, International Centre for Women Playwrights and Film Independent.

www.dbolskywriter.com.

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StoryPros International (Third Place)
Chicago Screenplay Contest (Second Place, Comedy)
Table Read (Semifinalist, 2014)
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StoryPros International (Third Place)
Chicago Screenplay Contest (Second Place, Comedy)
Table Read (Semifinalist, 2014)
PAGE International (Quarterfinalist, 2010)
Nashville Fest (Semifinalist, 2016 Drama)
Gimme Credit (Finalist)
Screenplay Festival (Semifinalist, 2014 Comedy)
Fresh Voices Feature (Semifinalist, 2014-15 Comedy)
Wildsound 1st Scene (Finalist, March 2015 reading)
Women In Cinema (Finalist, 2015)
Creative World (Quarterfinalist, Comedy, 2015)
Emerging Screenwriters (Semifinalist)
Cynosure (Quarterfinalist, 2013)
Champion (Quarterfinalist, 2010)
Broad Humor (Semifinalist, 2014)
Richmond Fest (Quarterfinalist, 2015)
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