December 2015 Shannon Reed (718) 450-7990 • [email protected]

EDUCATION

2015 M.F.A. in Creative Writing: Fiction. University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

2000 M.A. in Educational Theatre/Teaching English. Departmental Honors. New York University, Steinhardt School of Education

1996 B.F.A. in Theatre: Acting and Directing. Magna Cum Laude. Departmental Honors. Otterbein College (now University), Westerville, Ohio

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2016 Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania Writing Fiction (Fall 2016, 2 sections)

2015-2016 Waynesburg University, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania Freshman Composition 101 (Fall 2015, 3 sections) Freshman Composition 102 (Spring 2016, 3 sections)

2015 Osher Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ladies Wielding Pens: 5 Modern Female Playwrights (Fall 2015)

2012 – 2015 University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Introduction to Writing Fiction (Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2014) Seminar in Composition (Fall 2013, Spring 2013, Fall 2012, Fall 2015, Spring 2015)

2008 – 2012 Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School, Brooklyn, New York English and Theatre Teacher for grades 9 – 12.

2004 – 2008 Stella Maris High School, Rockaway Park, New York English Teacher for grades 7, 9, 10, 10 Honors, 11, 11 Honors, 12.

PUBLICATIONS

Fiction April 2015 “Snoodles,” Litro Fiction January 2015 “The Buddhists,” Mud Season Review December 2014 “DeSean,” Kweli Journal February 2014 “Idlewild,” Terrain Journal

Humor

1 January 2016 “The Many Passive-Aggressive Actions of Winter,” The New Yorker December 2015 “The Performance Art-Work that is Getting through…,” The New Yorker December 2015 “Prove You’re a Christian!: The Game Show,” The Reject Pile November 2015 “Famous Inventors and Their Moms,” The New Yorker November 2015 “Math for Freelancers,” The Freelancer November 2015 “Casting Bond, James Bond,” The Establishment November 2015 “Other Vehicular Styles of Parenting,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency October 2015 “A Drinking Game for Non-Drinkers,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency October 2015 “Parent-Teacher Conference Night in Internet Headlines,” The New Yorker October 2015 “Autumn Should Come with Trigger Warnings for These Things,” The New Yorker July 2015 “The Spinster Agenda,” The New Yorker July 2015 “14th Century Missed Connections,” The Reject Pile June 2015 “If Jane Austen Got Feedback in Her MFA Workshop,” BuzzFeed June 2015 “Leaked Emails from the Republican Campaigns RE: White House Toddler Temper Tantrum,” The New Yorker June 2015 “What Your Bucket List Item Says About You,” The Reject Pile May 2015 “Joss Whedon’s The Sound of Music,” The New Yorker May 2015 “Ten Extremely Specific Compliments…,” Buzzfeed May 2015 “Inspired by the Bechdel Rules, Test for Other Cartoonists,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency April 2015 “Hitchcock After Therapy,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency March 2015 “The Feminist Roundtable: Part I,” BuzzFeed Ideas February 2015 “If the Male Best Director Nominees Were Written About the Way Ana DuVernay Is…”, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency December 2014 “Life’s Big Questions: The Test,” The Yearbook Office October 2014 “Security Questions for Single, Childless People,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency (Listed 8th in the Top 10 Pieces of 2014) December 2013 “Thornton Wilder at 15,” McSweeney’s Internet Tendency

Essays and Articles February 2017 “Ghost Field,” Writing Pittsburgh Anthology, Infact Books January 2016 “My Kind of Disney Princess,” The Establishment January 2016 “Six Ways to Launch a Freelance Career...,” The Freelancer November 2015 “Out of the Closet,” Marie Claire November 2015 “Learning to Listen in Paris,” Ozy.com September 2015 “The Mature MFA,” Poets & Writers July 2015 “The Compliment Game,” Guernica Daily July 2015 “Our Friendliness Will Save Us,” BELT Magazine May 2015 “Listen Up: AWP15,” [PANK] April 2015 “A Stylish Plus-Sized Woman?” Hello Giggles February 2015 “The Boys I Know,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette January 2015 “The Mysterious Matriarch in My Mind,” Narratively November 2014 “No More Handprint Mugs,” Mutha Magazine October 2014 “The Cloister and the Cradle,” Vela Magazine July 2014 “10 Ways of Looking at a Paycheck,” TheBillfold.com March 2014 “Pretty Close By,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette November 2013 “Our Brooklyn,” Brooklyn Non-Fiction Essay Contest 2 Academic Journals Winter 2015 “The Twenty-Line Trap: Shakespeare Enacted by Young Women,” Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy. Vol. 2, Issue 2

Book Reviews January 2016 “Ally Hughes Has Sex Sometimes,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette August 2015 “Belief is it’s own kind of truth, maybe,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette August 2015 “Gonzo Girl,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 2015 “Magnetic North,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette March 2015 “Glow,” The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Columnist 2008 – 2012 “Teachers at Work” column, VisualThesaurus.com

Instructional Books 2016 Author, McGraw-Hill Education: GMAT Premium, McGraw-Hill 2015 Contributing Author, The Idiot’s Guide to the Common Core, Alpha Books 2014 Author, 500 Questions to Know by Test Day: Verbal GRE, McGraw-Hill 2012 Contributing author, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the GED, Alpha Books

Literary Representation: Wendi Gu, Sanford J. Greenburger Associates Test Prep Book Representation: Grace Freedson, Grace Freedson Associates

PRODUCED PLAYS

March 2016 …The Witches of Ishwick… Circle Players (NJ) May 2015 Bonnie and Clementine… Pittsburgh Fringe Festival November 2013 Drag the Past Tangent Theatre (NY) February 2012 Drag the Past Circle Players (NJ) November 2010 Rosa Krantz & Gilda Stern… Manhattan Shakespeare Project September 2010 Bonnie and Clementine…. Buran Theatre Co. (LA) August 2010 …The Witches of Ishwick… Brooklyn Artists Exchange July 2010 Drag the Past Unity Stages (NYC) April 2010 This Will Solve All Our Problems Kennedia Theatre (CO) March 2010 Horatio & Ismene E.A.T. Festival (NYC) March 2010 Sure Not BostonSlam! Festival November 2009 Bonnie and Clementine Chicago Chaos! Festival July 2009 Words of Snap, Crackle, and…Um Circle Players (NJ) May 2009 Ten Minutes So Insignificant… American Globe Theatre (NYC) March 2009 The Vicar, or, Hesitancy Theatre 3 New Play Festival (NY February 2008 Shannon Reed: Page to Stage Dixon Place March 2008 Welcome to Your Life Theatre 3 New Play Festival (NY) November 2006 Welcome to Your Life New Provincetown Players (MA) March 2006 Bound for Glory Theatre 3 New Play Festival (NY) September 2005 Up on the Roof Pittsburgh New Works Festival

3 CONFERENCES

Panels Organized April 2015 Panel: “Getting an MFA After 35” Association of Writers & Writing Professionals, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Papers Presented April 2014 Paper: “The Twenty Line Trap” Shakespeare 450 Conference, Paris, France

April 2014 Paper: “TIE Techniques in a Public High School,” Northeast Modern Language Conference, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

May 2013 Paper: “You Can Write Us” Assembling Identities Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Panel Participant July, 2014 Panel: “Creative Nonfiction in the High School Classroom” University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

November, 2014 Panel: “Writing About Loss” University of Pittsburgh Writers Café, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

March, 2014 Panel: “Artists with Disabilities” Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

2014 – 2015 Member, Writing Program Publicity Committee, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2012 – 2014 Tutor, Student-Athlete Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

SELECTED TEACHING ARTIST EXPERIENCE

2012 – Present Teaching Artist, City Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA Taught in multiple high schools as part of the Student Playwriting Program.

2014 – Present Teaching Artist, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA Coached high school students for Shakespeare Monologue/Scene Program.

GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS

2012 – 2015 Teaching Fellowship with Full Support, Creative Writing Program University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

4 2013 2014 Artist Opportunity Grant, supporting Shakespeare research Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2012 Cullman Center for Teachers Summer Session Participant New York Public Library, New York, New York

2010 Goldie Anna Award for Excellence in Education Goldie Anna Foundation, New York, New York

2010 Outstanding Original Production Award (as playwright of Words of Snap, Crackle, and, Um…) New Jersey Area Community Theatre, Elizabeth, New Jersey

TEACHING CERTIFICATION

New York State Teaching Certificate, English, 7 – 12

AFFILIATIONS

Northeast Modern Language Association Association of Writers and Writing Professionals American Federation of Teachers

REFERENCES

Angie Cruz, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh [email protected]

Irina Reyn, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh [email protected]

Michael Meyer, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh [email protected]

Jeff Oaks, Assistant Director of the Writing Program, University of Pittsburgh [email protected]

All of the above can be reached via 412-624-6506 (English Department Main Office), and Department of English 526 Cathedral of Learning 4200 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260

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