B.J. Burton is the author of several full-length plays including Lobelia Lodge, For The Record, Hunting Season, Room For Love and Maddie on Her Way Home. Her plays have been produced and/or developed at InterAct Theatre Company, Hedgerow Theatre, Widener University, Players Club of Swarthmore, Manhattan Theatre Source, Pittsburgh New Works Festival, Six Women Playwriting Festival, the Brick Playhouse and others. Honors include two fellowships from PA Council on the Arts and winner of the PA Playwriting Award. Her work was designated a finalist for the Heideman Award, a semifinalist in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a semifinalist in the Nicholl Fellowships and a finalist twice for the Set in Philadelphia Screenwriting Competition. She is the author of The Philadelphia Connection: Conversations with Playwrights, a book of interviews with several Philadelphia-area playwrights, including Bruce Graham, Michael Hollinger and Ed Shockley. She received her BA in Theatre from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and continued with post-graduate work at UCLA Extension Writers' Program, American Conservatory Theatre and Villanova University. She received her MFA at Rosemont College.
