Welcome to my website, where I’d like to introduce you to vibrant, exciting, intelligent, touching, and funny new plays and musicals. Here you’ll find links to my work currently in production, soon to be produced, or published and waiting for your theater to bring it to life.

Award Winner!

Connecticut Heritage Productions “Connecticut Stories on Stage” Annual Playwriting Competition has awarded first place in the Ten Minute Play category to "Answering" by Monica Bauer. The award comes with a staged reading and a monetary award for the winners in each category: full length, one act, and ten-minute. These plays will be presented in a staged reading at Oddfellows Playhouse in Middletown, CT on Saturday, April 10, 2010.

Best Thanksgiving Ever!

Find out why here. . .

2009 New York Musical Theater Festival:

"Lighter" a new musical comedy about two diet-crossed lovers, Connie and Stevie, and the rocky road to self-esteem we all travel to be "Lighter".

The production PREMIERED at The Barrow Group Theater on Monday, October 5th, at 8pm.

Read the THEATRE MANIA review HERE. . .

Heideman Award Finalist:

"Answering" has just been named a finalist for the Heideman Award given by the Humana Festival for New Plays at the Actors Theater of Louisville. The most prestigious award given for new American ten-minute plays, the 2008 competition received over 1,300 entries from playwrights all over the United States.

MITF Award Winner:

The Higher Education of Khalid Amir
written by Monica Bauer
directed by Craig J. George

WINNER OF OUTSTANDING PLAYWRITING FOR A NEW SCRIPT OR BOOK!

Also nominated for four other Midtown International Theatre Festival awards including:

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Play: Amir Darvish
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Play: Amanda Duarte
Outstanding Costume Design: Irma Escobar
Outstanding Production of a New Comedy: The Higher Education of Khalid Amir