Warren Deacon-Wren biography

Warren Deacon-Wren was three times awarded the distinguished MacDowell Colony Writing Fellowship and is a winner of the National Repertory Theatre Playwrighting award. His screenplays with co-writer Lupos Sobre-Vega include “Sign Language," “Sun Moon Stars," “January One," “I.D.," “Rock & Roll Radio” and "Heartless."

He is the co-creator of two tv series, “There Goes the Neighborhood” (with Kean Mantius, an Accolades and Fox sitcom winner) and “Street Time” (with Mike McGuire) and the author of three stage plays: “The New Bijou Soft Shoe," produced at Symphony Space, New York and the Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles; “The Chair at the End of the Room," for which he won the National Repertory Theatre award, produced by Circle-in-the-Square, New York and Los Angeles Repertory; and "And Flights of Angels Sing Thee" (with co-author Timothy Constant).

He was Associate Artistic and Managing Director of South Coast Repertory where he directed Harold Pinter’s “The Birthday Party," “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder and “Feiffer's People," among others. He was founding Artistic Director of the experimental performance venue Open End Theatre where his productions included “All the Lonely People," “What If” and “Adventures in a Paper Bag."

He has directed over 60 productions in college, community and professional theatres including the world stage premiere of "The Little Prince" based on the St. Exupery classic which premiered outdoors at St. Andrews Benedictine monastery in the California desert, “The Night of the Iguana," “The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds," “The Caretaker," “Mother Earth” and “All the King’s Men." He was founding director of the Anaheim Music Repertory where he directed three musicals and his productions of Shakespeare have been part of the Chapman, Utah, Oregon and New Jersey Festivals.

He was a radio dj and newsman, founding manager of the National Public Radio affiliate station in Orange County, California and executive producer of the national poetry series "Earbook". His television directing credits include news, public affairs, documentaries, commercials, corporate and music videos and he wrote and directed the feature film “Bike Fever."

Deacon-Wren was represented as a playwright by the legendary Audrey Wood of the Ashley-Famous Agency (later ICM), and Helen Harvey in New York, and as a screenwriter by Ilse Lahn of the Paul Kohner Agency in Los Angeles. He is currently represented by Leroy Bobbitt of Bobbitt and Roberts in Los Angeles.