Pamela Monk (Passaparola librettist and lyricist) is a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) playwright and a member of the Dramatist's Guild. Her work has been staged in New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, and she teaches writing at Penn State University. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and Newsday.

In June of 2003, her ten-minute play Buy and Buy was the winner of the audience favorite award at the Short Attention Span Play Festival in Billerica MA, sponsored by Atlantis Playmakers Theatre Company. In 1998, her work Hoax, a retelling of the Cardiff Giant scam, was developed through the new plays program of the Metropolitan Theatre Company of NYC, David Zarko, artistic director (now of the Northeast Theatre Company). It was subsequently produced in the summer of 1999 by the Open Eye Theatre, Amie Brockway Henson, artistic director. Hoax was most recently performed at the State College Community Theatre in the fall of 2000.  

Two plays for young audiences, The Ogress of Onkerville and Elikapeka, were produced at Dreamwrights Theatre in York PA (Diane Crews, artistic director) in the summer of 2001.  Ms. Monk and Ms. Crews are collaborating on a play about the young Galileo, tentatively scheduled to tour in 2005.  Most recently, La Verna, an adult comedy, was presented in February 2004 at the University Club, State College PA, to positive local reviews.

Other productions of Ms. Monk 's work include the winter 1997 run of Jennie’s Will, a musical commemorating the bicentennial of Dryden, NY, sponsored by the Dryden Bicentennial Committee; the 1990 production of The Harlequin Hag, written and produced for the town of Virgil, NY through a New York State Decentralization Grant; and the 1984 production of Life on the Wing by the Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, NY. Since 2000, Pam has been the head writer for the yearly First Night revue sponsored by the State College Community Theatre. 

Ms. Monk also devotes her time to creating opportunities for others to develop original work.  She is the co-founder, with actor/writer/director Charles Dumas, of Fourth Tuesday Playwrights, a series of monthly readings of new works by local playwrights, now in its fifth season.  Also in State College, she has organized a twenty-four-hour theatre, PlayMakers, in which original ten-minute plays are created with collaboration between theatre artists and community members.  She also conducts playwriting residencies in area public schools.

Pam can be reached at (814) 865-1006 (o), (814) 861-6162 (h), or pxm33@psu.edu. She lives at 417 Adams Avenue, State College, PA 16801.