Michele Lowe coaches clergy, novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, television writers, educators, political candidates, and business leaders on how to write more original and memorable stories. She helps them build confidence and trust their instincts. Her essays on writing often appear in The Dramatist magazine. Michele has taught master classes at NYU and Carnegie Mellon, and she's on the faculty of the Dramatist Guild Institute and Einhorn School for the Performing Arts. Michele made her Broadway debut with THE SMELL OF THE KILL. She developed her new play THE GREATEST at Sundance Theatre Lab where she was Artist in Residence. Currently, she is at work on MOSES with Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre and two musicals; SPLIT a commission for Transport Group and THE PROXY MARRIAGE. She won the Francesca Primus Prize for INANA and two Edgerton New Play Awards; one for INANA and another for MAP OF HEAVEN. She was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and both INANA and VICTORIA MUSICA were finalists for the ATCA/Steinberg Prize, which marked the first time in ATCA history that a playwright was nominated for two plays in one season. Other plays include: STRING OF PEARLS (Outer Critics nomination for best new play); MEZZULAH 1946, BACKSLIDING IN THE PROMISED LAND, and the musical 1000 WORDS COME TO MIND. Michele is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She lives in New York.