For television he was the head writer on Maurice Sendak’s “Little Bear” and wrote “The Miffy Movie” for European cinema. In addition to SCT premiering BLACK BEAUTY, this fall his play for pre-schoolers THE LITTLE CHOO-CHOO THAT THNKS SHE CAN premiers at Indiana Rep. James' plays have been produced around the world. Ms. Sale is a proud member of the National Theatre Conference and represented by Abrams Artists NYC. She has taught at Summer at Cornish, Seattle Children’s Museum, Temple College, and the University of Texas at Austin. Other awards included Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty Under Forty Designation. She has developed new work at New Plays for Young Audiences at NYU/Provincetown Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company’s Summit New Play Festival, The New Harmony Project, Write Now, and The Orchard Project. With the Duplicates, she has co-created The Fictional Life of Historical Oddities, September Play, The Man with the Dancing Eyes, and T he Poison Squad (Austin Critics Award). Burns, A Post Electric Play, On Clover Road (The Phoenix Theater), Twelfth Night and The Tempest (Indy Shakes), and Zen Prayers & Songs (Fusebox), written and performed by Kirk Lynn. Other credits include The Cake, Wild Horses, Not Medea (CATF), Mr. Prior to SCT, she spent three years as Associate Artistic Director at Indiana Repertory Theatre, where directing credits include the world premiere of April 4, 1968: Before We Forgot How to Dream, The Mountaintop, The Mousetrap, Jackie & Me, And Then They Came For Me, The Giver, and two iterations of A Christmas Carol. Recent directing projects: Tiny Beautiful Things at Seattle Rep, Steven Dietz’s The Ghost of Splinter Cove at Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and Support Group for Men at Contemporary American Theatre Festival. Commissioned writers under her tenure at SCT include Idris Goodwin, Cheryl West, Allison Gregory, Karen Hartman, Trista Baldwin, Ramon Esquivel, and James Still. Courtney currently serves as the Artistic Director of Seattle Children's Theatre where she has directed The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and The Little Prince.

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