BRIGID AMOS has been a finalist for the Woodward/Newman Drama Award and Kitchen Dog Theater's New Play Festival and a semifinalist for Seven Devils Playwrights Conference and the International Thomas Wolfe Playwriting Competition. Her full length play Listen was among ten plays selected from over 700 submissions for the 2018-19 5th Wall Productions Staged Reading Series in Charleston, South Carolina. Losing the Ring in the River, a full length based on the book of poetry by Marge Saiser, was produced by Angels Theatre Company at the Carson Theater, Lied Center for Performing Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska in March 2018. Her short plays have been produced by Angels Theatre Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, The Barn Players in Mission, Kansas, and the Secret Theatre in New York City. Other staged readings have been presented at CenterPieces Reading Series in Roanoke, Virginia, The Midwest Dramatists Conference, and Theatre Lawrence, in Lawrence, Kansas. Brigid serves on the board and programming committee of Angels Theatre Company and co-founded Angels Playwriting Collective with Judith K. Hart in 2013. She is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
Brigid is the author of two historical novels set during the California Gold Rush and later hard rock mining period: A Fence Around Her and West from the Cradle (a Peacemaker Award finalist). Short stories have appeared in The Storyteller, Wilderness House Literary Review, The MacGuffin, Words of Wisdom, and Voices from the Plains:
While completing her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences at Wellesley College, Brigid attended a semester-long theatre program at the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut. There she studied playwriting with David Berry, and more recently, with Scott Working at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Adam Szymkowicz through the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts in New York City, and Charly Evon Simpson through PlayPenn in Philadelphia. Brigid also holds a Master of Science Degree in Agronomy from Kansas State University and a Doctorate in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Originally from New Jersey, Brigid has lived in eight states as well as two years in Mexico. A former soil scientist and educator, she currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with her husband Bob Graybosch, retired wheat geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Brigid is the author of two historical novels set during the California Gold Rush and later hard rock mining period: A Fence Around Her and West from the Cradle (a Peacemaker Award finalist). Short stories have appeared in The Storyteller, Wilderness House Literary Review, The MacGuffin, Words of Wisdom, and Voices from the Plains:
While completing her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences at Wellesley College, Brigid attended a semester-long theatre program at the National Theater Institute in Waterford, Connecticut. There she studied playwriting with David Berry, and more recently, with Scott Working at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Adam Szymkowicz through the Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts in New York City, and Charly Evon Simpson through PlayPenn in Philadelphia. Brigid also holds a Master of Science Degree in Agronomy from Kansas State University and a Doctorate in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Originally from New Jersey, Brigid has lived in eight states as well as two years in Mexico. A former soil scientist and educator, she currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska with her husband Bob Graybosch, retired wheat geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.