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Meredith KennedyP.O. Box 60988
Singer/Actress/PlaywrightPalo Alto, CA 94306
meredithkennedy@hotmail.com(562)303-0702
Website: www.meredith-kennedy.com

Education:
Community High School (Ann Arbor MI, graduated 3rd of 103)
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
Washtenaw Community College (Ann Arbor, MI)
Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
California State University Long Beach (Master's in Vocal Performance)

Languages:
English: Native language
Swahili: fluent spoken and written skills
Twi: beginning spoken and written skills
Setswana: beginning spoken and written skills
Italian: intermediate/beginning spoken and written skills
French: beginning spoken and written skills

Classical Singer Magazine
"A Night at the Opera" (February 2006)
"Battling the Shadow: Singers and Substance Abuse" (October 2006)
"Traveling with Pets" (March 2007)
"The Press Kit" (in progress)

Teaching Novels
These are novels for undergraduate sociology and psychology students, developed with professors of sociology and psychology:
"The Dancer's Gift: an Introductory Sociology Novel," with Marty Zusman, David Knox and DD Schacht
"The Mapmaker: an Introductory Psychology Novel," with Clem Handron, David Knox and DD Schacht
"The Red Jacket," with David Knox; work in progress. Novel for teens about choices and consequences of involvement with sex, drugs and alcohol.

Children's Books
"Kanuki and the Wishing Tree," Jacaranda Press, in English and Swahili

Plays Authored:
"The Valiant Villain," "Puss 'n Boots," "Rapunzel," "The Pirate's Treasure," "The Dancer's Gift"

Goodtime Players Repertory Company: four years as a member, writing and performing musical theatre for children all over southeast Michigan; original and adapted plays and musicals, advocating values of friendship and cooperation.

Awards:
Regents Alumni Award (Community High School)
Foreign Language Area Specialties Fellowship (three times, Michigan State University)
Michigan State University Student CVMA Writing Contest
Study Abroad Scholarship (Michigan State University)
Fall's Writer's Workshop: 2nd place for contemporary fiction
Florida State Writing Competition: honorable mention for short fiction

Anvil Press Three-Day Novel-Writing Contest
(Novellas written over the three-day Labor Day weekend)
Summer Country (2001)
The Poison Cup (2002)
Blackbeard's Chalice (2003)
Bones of Tall People (2004)
The Magic Tortoise (2006)
The Magic Colt (2008) 'Honorable Mention'


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