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Lesley Bannatyne 9 Oliver StreetSomerville, MA 02145lesley.bannatyne@PublicationsBooksHalloween Nation. Behind the Scenes of America’s Fright Night (creative non-fiction), Pelican Publishing, 2011; ebook 2012. Bram Stoker Award finalist, 2012. Second edition, 2020.Witches Night before Halloween (children’s), Pelican Publishing, 2007; ebook 2012A Halloween Reader. Poems, Stories, and Plays from Halloweens Past (edited anthology), Pelican Publishing, 2004; 2nd printing 2007; ebook 2012A Halloween How-To: Costumes, Parties, Decorations and Destinations, Pelican Publishing, 2001; 2nd printing 2001; 3rd printing 2003; ebook 2012Halloween: An American Holiday, An American History, Facts On File, 1990/Pelican Publishing, 1998; 2nd printing 2006; 3rd printing 2011, 4th printing 2017, ebook 2012Short Stories“Ugly,” finalist Chester B. Himes Memorial Fiction Prize, pub. in Ocotillo Review Vol. 5.1, February 2021.“Like the Light in Winter,” Tulip Tree Press, Stories That Need To Be Told Anthology, 2020“Corpse Walks Into a Bar”: 2020 The Ghost Story Summer Fiction Prize, published 6.21.20; Tucson Festival of Books First Place Literary Award for Fiction, 2019; HM, Writer’s Digest 89th Annual Writing Competition, 2020; finalist, The Masters Review Anthology prize, 2017“Unaccustomed to Grace,” (short story collection), short listed for Hudson Prize, 2020“The Study and Practice of Astral Projection,” Craft Literary, January 31, 2020“Gravity,” longlisted for Lascaux Prize, 2020; Recipient, Bosque Literary Journal 2018 Fiction Prize, published in 2018 issue vol. 9 “Underlake,” Craft Literary Short Fiction Prize 2019 finalist, selected by Elizabeth McCracken, 2019“On Tuesday I Will Kill Him,” 2018 Sequestrum Editor’s Reprint Award, finalist“Blackbird,” The Cantabrigian Magazine, Spring 2018“Madonna Wept,” The Finger, Fall, 2017“Little Stranger,” Zone 3, Fall 2017“Weight of a Soul,” finalist, Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize (2017) “On Tuesday I Will Kill Him,” Shooter Literary Magazine (Winter 2015) “Salt,” Page and Spine Literary Magazine (September 2015)“Beloved,“ Avalon Literary Review (Summer 2015)“Waiting for Ivy,” Kaaterskill Basin Literary Review (Summer 2015)Essays (selected)“When Halloween Was All Tricks,” (2017)“Monster Love,” Pangyrus Literary Magazine, 2016“Death and Plenty," Chicago Literati, 2015 "The H Word," Nightmare Magazine, 2014“Halloween,” The Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience, Greenwood Publishing, 2009“Halloween,” Be My Guest: The Encyclopedia of Entertaining, 2009 “After the fire, beauty among the ashes,” Boston Globe, 2007 “Halloween” World Book Encyclopedia, 2003JournalismFeatures in Woman’s Day, Diversion, Boston Woman’s Magazine, CBS News, contributor, City Weekly,Boston Globe; Christian Science Monitor, 2000-2010 Selected Articles“Neighbors Loose the Chain link, Connect the Community,” Boston Globe, 2008“College Bound,” Christian Science Monitor: Two Part Series, 2007“Ancient Signatures Found at Sistine Chapel Choir Loft,” Renaissance Magazine, 2006 “Put On Your Kilt and Pass the Haggis,” Boston Globe, 2005“Secrets of the Maya ... Unlocked!” USA Today, 2005 “For Solstice, A Druid Who’s Down to Earth,” Boston Globe, 2004 “Striving to Solve History’s Mysteries,” Christian Science Monitor, 2004Teaching ResidenciesWriting for Musicians, artist-in-residence, University of Central Oklahoma, 2014 Playwriting/theater visiting artist to the Massachusetts Public Schools, through 2005TheaterCo-Artistic Director, writer, Studebaker Theater. Created and/or wrote original theater scripts for twenty productions. Over 1000 performances and eight tours in U.S. and to Europe and Canada, including presentations at major international festivals such as Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Gaukler Festival in Cologne and performances at Battersea Arts Centre, London, The Milkveg Theatre, Amsterdam, Emmanu-El Y Dance Series, New York, Lincoln Center Out Of Doors Series, New York, Nuarts Performing Arts Series, Boston, and the Milwaukee Performing Arts Center. Co-founder, co-writer, Invisible Cities Group. Collaborated with theater, visual, and literary artists to create site-specific performance works, Boston. Recipient of Merit Aid awards from Massachusetts Cultural Council, NEA Dance Program Grant, LEF Foundation grant.Representative works:Things I Never Told You, Invisible Cities Group, co-creatorSite-specific original musical performed with composer/lyricist Rick BerlinImpossible Library, ICG, co-creatorOutdoor installation/performance in Forest Hills CemeteryNotes for the Next Life, ICG, co-creatorOutdoor installation/performance about the Mystic RiverWatching the Detectives, ICG, co-creatorInteractive installation/performance based on Paul Auster novelInvisible Cities, ICG, co-creatorLarge-scale urban performance taking place over one-square-mile of Somerville, MA, inspired by Calvino’s book of the same nameShadow of a Doubt, Studebaker Theater, performer, writer, directorFilm noir performance piece about chaos theory for five actors and three machines with sets by sculptor David Judelson and kinetic sculpture by Arthur GansonFamily Dancing, Studebaker Theater, adapter, performer Adaptation for the stage of short stories by David LeavittEditing/copyeditingHarvard University Publications in Music: copy-edited volumes of collected essays including Out of Bounds. Ethnography. History. Music, ed. Carol Oja, Ingrid Monson, Richard Wolf; Music in Time, ed. Alexander Rehding and Suzannah Clark (2016); Chant and the Topography of Early Music, ed. Michael Cuthbert, Sean Gallagher and Christoph Wolff (2013); The Century of Bach and Mozart, ed.Thomas F. Kelly and Sean Gallagher (2008); Pain and its Transformations, ed. Sarah Coakley, Kay Kaufman Shelemay (2008), all distributed by Harvard University Press. Co-author with Reinhold Brinkmann, Harvard’s Paine Hall. Musical Canon and the New England Barn (2010). ................
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