Richard Lyons Conlon

Richard is a Resident Playwright Alum at Chicago Dramatists and proud Lifetime Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. He is an O’Neill Playwrights Conference honoree, and was selected as a 2020 Kennedy Center Playwright.

Most recently, his social satire 7 MINUTES TO LIVE received its world premiere in an extended run at Chicago Dramatists. Reviewers called it: “highly entertaining”, “funny, sexy, action-packed” with “whip-smart dialogue”; and said it had: “relationships that will knock your socks off”, and “sharp observations about the dangers we imagine in life”.

Richard’s work has won numerous awards and has been published by Next Stage Press, Eldridge Publishing, and Smith & Kraus. He has written over 50 plays, including: 7 MINUTES TO LIVE (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference...

Richard is a Resident Playwright Alum at Chicago Dramatists and proud Lifetime Member of the Dramatists Guild of America. He is an O’Neill Playwrights Conference honoree, and was selected as a 2020 Kennedy Center Playwright.

Most recently, his social satire 7 MINUTES TO LIVE received its world premiere in an extended run at Chicago Dramatists. Reviewers called it: “highly entertaining”, “funny, sexy, action-packed” with “whip-smart dialogue”; and said it had: “relationships that will knock your socks off”, and “sharp observations about the dangers we imagine in life”.

Richard’s work has won numerous awards and has been published by Next Stage Press, Eldridge Publishing, and Smith & Kraus. He has written over 50 plays, including: 7 MINUTES TO LIVE (Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist), and ONE TIME (record-breaking production: Next Act Theatre; Winner: Best Comedy at the 2022 Legacy Play Festival, published in 2022 by Next Stage Press, Gold Prize Winner: the Beverly Hills Stage Play Competition). Additionally, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY was recently published by Next Stage Press; an excerpt was previously chosen for the SMITH & KRAUS anthology, Best Women's Monologues 2021; it was also a Finalist for the 2017 HRC Showcase Theatre New Play Contest in New York. And MEMORY, SPEAK was Finalist for Sky Blue Theatre's 2021 British Theatre Challenge. His latest play THE EDUCATION OF FRAT BOY ROOFIE was selected for the SMITH & KRAUS anthology, Best Women's Monologues 2023. His multi-award-winning play about artificial intelligence and literature – THE VOLITIVE EFFECT OF ORAL LITERARY INUNDATION ON THE LSTM RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK -- was the First Prize Winner of the 2017 Stonybrook University Science Playwriting Award and was a featured presentation at the 2022 TEDx Conference.

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