Pamela Kingsley
Pam Kingsley’s plays have been produced in London UK and in cities throughout the U.S. including Boston, Cleveland, Grosse Point, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Louisville, New Haven, NYC, the State University of New York (Brockport), San Francisco, Santa Fe, and Spokane. Her play Mother's Day was a 2019 finalist for the James Stevenson Prize for Short Comedic Plays and won the "Audience Choice Award” at the 31st Playwrights' Forum Festival in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2021, Pam had three new works selected for Stage Left Theatre's “Masterpiece Monologues” series. Pam was then commissioned to write and subsequently performed a solo piece, Sleepwalking, which was featured in the EMPOWER WOMEN Festival at Stage Left and streamed online. Sleepwalking was also selected to be presented in the New Media Library for Irondale Ensemble’s 2022 ON WOMEN Festival in New York City and received an “Audience Pick” prize. In June 2022, Pam’s plays Finding Mother Courage and Boxes were both selected for the 32nd Playwrights’ Forum Festival. Boxes won the “Audience Choice Award.” Both The Sitting and Boxes were produced as part of TheatreWorks Humanity Festival in 2023. Pam’s most recent work, Minister of Sorrow will be one of three plays to be presented at the Appalachian Playwriting Festival in Ashville, N.C. Sept. 2023. Minister of Sorrow will also have its west coast premiere as part of Stage Left Theater's 2024 Season. Pam is a playwriting panelist for the GET LIT Festival in the Inland Northwest. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, NPX and Women Playwrights Honor Roll. Pam holds a BFA in Theatre Performance and a MA in Theatre Education and she has taught and adjudicated acting and playwriting throughout her career. Pam is also an actress and director with more than 200 production credits. Originally from the Finger Lakes of New York, Pam splits her time between Seattle and Spokane.