Ian Finley
IAN FINLEY holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University, where he earned the Harry Kondoleon Award for playwriting. In addition to the works below, he is the author of THE NATURE OF THE NAUTILUS (winner of the Kennedy Center's Jean Kennedy Smith Award 2002) and the OUR HISTORIES series of plays for Burning Coal Theatre Company. For this body of work, he was named the 2012 Piedmont Laureate....
IAN FINLEY holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University, where he earned the Harry Kondoleon Award for playwriting. In addition to the works below, he is the author of THE NATURE OF THE NAUTILUS (winner of the Kennedy Center's Jean Kennedy Smith Award 2002) and the OUR HISTORIES series of plays for Burning Coal Theatre Company. For this body of work, he was named the 2012 Piedmont Laureate. He has taught at Southern Methodist University, as well for the OLLI programs at NC State University and Duke University. He currently serves as Chair of Fine Arts at Research Triangle High School.