DONNA
SELLINGER lives
in Baltimore, Maryland where she is a homeowner, a member of the Wham City collective,
and a recalcitrant graduate student. In early 2008, Donna directed The Wham
City Players in They Should All Be Destroyed (A Jurassic Park Play). The play
(an adaptation of the movie Jurassic Park), toured the Northeast twice to sold-out
houses and received a mention in Rolling Stone (as one of the reasons that Baltimore
has the nation’s “best scene”), and a write-up in The Village
Voice, which quoted her using foul language. She was then commissioned by Baltimore’s
Annex Theater to adapt a Hanna-Barbera cartoon for the stage as part of their
Hanna-Barbera play festival. Donna chose the Oscar-winning Tom & Jerry cartoon
“Quiet Please”, and to her own delight cast herself as Jerry. Donna’s
play-in-a-box-for-an-audience-of-no-one, titled One Pair was included in the
Wham City Box Set #1, which was released at the Whitney Museum of American Art
in early 2008. This was a play which Donna performed with purchasers of the
box over the phone and through the mail. Donna has also won two awards for her
writing—one was second place in the Baltimore City Paper’s Short
Fiction Contest, and the other was the Fotis Award for Best Script at the 2005
Minnesota Fringe Festival. She is currently directing a musical called The Prettiest
Place on Earth written by Lola Pierson with music by Alex Scally (of the band
Beach House) to be performed in March of 2009.
