Emerging Playwright Competition

Judith Hallberg

Judith Hallberg has enjoyed many roles in a long and varied career. She studied costume design and construction with Kurt Wilhelm at Actors Theatre of Louisville and designed for Stage One and Walden Theatre in Kentucky. She was administrative director for the University of Vermont’s Department of Theatre and the Champlain Shakespeare Festival. She’s written film treatments from novels, edited theatrical scripts and, having moved to film and video production, served as a judge for the New York Festival of Short Film and Video for six years, viewing over 5,000 narrative films. Hallberg was a reader for Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 2nd Festival of New Plays, a judge for Vermont Repertory Theatre’s New Play Festival, and a judge for Firehouse Center for the Arts New Works Festival in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Dr. Glenn Steinberg

Glenn A. Steinberg holds a B.A. from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University in English with a specialization in medieval literature. His research focuses on the reception of classical and medieval texts in England during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance with a particular emphasis on the evolving reputations of Virgil, Dante and Chaucer from the 14th to the 16th centuries. He has published essays in Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, The Chaucer Review, Chung Wai Literary Monthly, English Literary Renaissance, the Modern Language Association’s Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems, Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance, Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Modern Philology, and Forum Italicum. He taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, for four years before coming to The College of New Jersey in 1998. He regularly teaches courses in the history of the English language, classical studies, and in medieval and Renaissance literature.

He traveled to Taiwan for a month to learn about Taiwanese culture as part of a Fulbright-Hays grant to develop a course on gender in East Asian TV dramas.

Dr. Wilbert Turner

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Turner is a Professor of English at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. In addition to his teaching duties, he is the publication advisor for The Gleaner, the university’s literary journal. His specializations include African American literature, adaptation studies, film studies and narrative theory. He is also a playwright, whose one-acts have won playwriting competitions in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia.He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Textual Studies from Syracuse University, and a doctoral degree in English from University at Albany, SUNY.