Playwright Poet Educator
May 2025 Started up a new Facebook group: PLAYWRIGHTS IN THE WILD with the sole goal of bringing hunters of new (and old) work together directly with playwrights
April 2025 I had the great privilege of joining with other creatives for the Alliance Française of Greater Phoenix's Night of Ideas. Showed ten minutes from THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN FRANCE read by Rachel Bertram and Brendan Powers of @tiny_theatre
Coming soon!
Pride & Prejudice: A Play with Music from Jane Austen's Songbooks was brought to life for the first time by Accolade Community Theatre November 2024. Pure joy to behold!
Pride & Prejudice: A Play with Music from Jane Austen's Songbooks is available on Amazon! AND will be produced by Accolade Community Theatre this November ❤️ 🎭 🎵 📖
I have been named a 2023 Poet's Billow Bermuda Triangle Semifinalist for three poems on the theme "water and earth"
STORM SESTINA
THE COURSE OF TIME
TIME WORKS MOST THINGS OUT
✍️ 📖 ❤️
It was my first time sending out poetry for a contest,
so it's motivating both to try again and to write more poetry.
December 2024 THE DEVIL & THE DMV is named one of the 18 finalists for the Rover Dramawerks 10-Minute Comedies!
December 2024 - First performance of "IT IS IN THE WALL" at the University of Northern Iowa's end of semester ten minute festival
Pride & Prejudice: A Play with Music From Jane Austen's Songbooks published in paperback form
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September 1, 2024 - Publication - OUR FAKE HISTORY to be published with Next Stage Press
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Publication - MADAME MEDUSA WOULD PREFER A CHARDONNAY - the Venus Theatre Anthology: Frozen Women, Flowing Thoughts
June 2024 - Production -THERE ARE NO CLOSETS IN MY CLASSROOM -- produced in June 2024 by Different Strokes! Awarded one of "369 Best of"
Produced by Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective as part of 369 pt 2: Monologue and Short Play Festival (Asheville NC, 2024) Brought to life off the page by the talents of: Glenna Grant - Teacher Stephanie Hickling Beckman - Director
June 2024 Participated in reading PERSON (A Monologue) by Rachel Feeny-Williams with Theatrical Shenanigans
May 2024 Interview with Darrin J. Friedman of Quill & Curtain Podcast
May 2024 - Production - THE DEVIL & THE DMV - Berkshire School, Sheffield MA The play was also a finalist in the Roverwerks
March 2024 - Production - Speed-Dating: A Day at the Races was broadcast on Radio Six International by Glen Dickson with The Writer's Block Radio Hour
February 2024 - A Special Shoutout ! - Nora Louise Syran is definitely the best ambassador for the songs of Tonton Marcel these days. With her performance “Impressions of Paris”, the American poet and playwright continues to promote Marcel Legay's songs to English-speaking audiences...." (Original French) Décidemment, Nora Louise Syran est, par les temps qui courent, la meilleure ambassadrice des chansons du Tonton Marcel. La poétesse et dramaturge américaine continue, à travers sa performance « Impressions of Paris », à promouvoir, pour un public anglophone, les chansons de Marcel Legay. Sa pièce, sous-titrée « A Play with the Music of Montmartre », met en scène plusieurs artistes de la Belle Epoque (Suzanne Valadon, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Aristide Bruant, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Gustave Caillebotte, Edouard Manet, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec… ) et comporte treize chansons (dont sept de Marcel Legay) qui pour la plupart ont été chantées dans les cabarets artistiques de la Belle Epoque"
January 2024 - Production - I AM THE CENTER OF MY UNIVERSE was broadcast on Radio Six International by Glen Dickson with Writer's Block Radio Hour
January 2024 - My short play "No Theatre Critics Were Harmed in the Writing of this Play" was produced by Theatrical Shenanigans for producer-playwright Rachel Feeny Williams's one year anniversary special. (Lots of plays to listen to; mine starts 44 minutes in)
AND playwrights, actors & directors WATCH Miranda Jonte present it as a "prepared cold read" with Back Porch Theater on Facebook --she finds the joy in it!
Spring 2024 - Shoutouts ! - I am the Center of My Universe “ Leave it to Nora Louise Syran to find (literally) universal joy in the discovery of one's own solipsism. As someone who contemplates the beauty of celestial objects and the inconstancy of one's location on an ever-moving planet hurtling through space so that from moment to moment we are never where we were and will never be there again, this monologue was a warm arrow to my heart, a sparkler in my brain, and a salve for my weary soul. [Miranda Jonte's Back Porch Theatre recitation captures all this magic.] And talk about great last lines... Bravo! ”
December 2023 - Publication - EINAR'S RAGNAROK --Smith and Kraus Best Women's Monologues 2023
October 2023 - Production - THE DEVIL AND THE DMV was produced by the Heartland Theatre: Young at Heart
October 2023 - On the Shelves! - THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS IN FRANCE makes it to the shelves of The Drama Book Shop in NYC & Niche Books in Valbonne, France!
October 2023 - Publication -Volume 1 Collection of short plays for large casts: IN THE LIMELIGHT (primary/elementary-middle school) So, for now Volume 1 is available through Amazon and TPT Volumes 2 and 3 are in the works...(I've years and years of short school productions to still polish up and pull together...)
September 2023 - Interview - I had the great fortune of appearing on Rachel Feeny-Williams's Theatrical Shenanigans with three other playwrights and Rachel, producer/playwright herself.
July 2023 - Publication - My short tragedy OUT, OUT DAMNED BIRD! is published in Literature Today
May 2023 - Production - A DAY AT THE CIRCUS
March 2023 - Finalist - My monologue ELLIDA inspired by Ibsen's "Fruen fra havet" / "Lady from the Sea" was a finalist for Forward Theater Company’s "Out in This World" Monologue Festival.
March 2023 - Publication - THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS is published by Next Stage Press
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December 2022 - Publication - THERE ARE NO CLOSETS IN MY CLASSROOM Published in 2023 by Smith & Kraus "WE/US: Monologues for Gender Minority Characters Anthology"
November 2022 - Publication - ELLIS ISLAND AHEAD! by Eldridge Plays and Musicals
Autumn 2021 - Publication - Walking Warm in the Review Americana
June 2021 - Semi-Finalist - WALKING WARM ("A Bucket of Crabs") was a semi-finalist in the 4th annual TASN's 2021 Annual Short Play Festival
Another lifetime ago, 1993 -Awarded Second Place - SPELLBOUND HORSES -by the Central Illinois Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters Screenplay competition. I was encouraged by my professor Brigit Pegeen Kelly to apply. She encouraged me to become a professional writer; I hope she is proud. She had a profound influence on me, my life and my writing.