J. Anthony Roman at work.

J. Anthony Roman is a fictionist and playwright. At eighteen, he started the theater company New Dimension (1997-2002). He wrote, produced and acted with the company. Since then, his work has been put up by the Rebel Verses Festival (2004-2009), NYCollective 10 Plus 2 Festival (2004, 2005), Rocketship Theater Company, Regroup Theater Collision Festival (2006, 2007), and the Ruskin Group Theater in L.A (2007). In 2004, he won the Best Play award at the first 8 Minute Madness Festival for Turtle Shell Productions. In 2006 he won an audience award at the Writer’s Unit for his full length play The Vacant Sky, which was also presented as a staged reading at the 2006 NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival. Blackouts, a full length play, had a reading produced by Terranova Theater Company on April 29th 2008 @ Collective Unconscious.  Anthony had a sold out run of his writer’s showcase No Matinees, which featured a collection of his short plays, at Centerstage NY in June of 2008. No Matinees: Supplemental, featured short plays and stories of his, and was presented at the Player’s Theater on January 9, 2009.  Anthony has written short stories, films, comic books, and a novel, Belated Apocalypse, which was presented chapter by chapter at Backyart, a monthly arts event, for all of 2009. Blackouts will be produced at Center Stage, NY by Swandive Studios in October 2009.