Advisory Board
Albert Meglin
Albert Meglin’s writing career began with television’s “Golden Age” of drama. Numerous half-hour, full-hour, 90-minute, and longer TV plays were sold to and produced by CBS, NBC, and ABC Television – including the very first piece of writing of any kind he had done (for an adult education course at a local high school). Anthology shows for which he wrote include Matinee Theatre, U.S. Steel Hour, The Nurses, Confidential for Women, and Look Up And Live. Early in his career, a full-length play was produced commercially on the Toronto, Canada stage. In recent years, Al has concentrated on writing for the stage, dipping into TV sufficiently to win – twice! – First Prize in a one-act play contest sponsored by a Long Island public access television station. His Constanza Lo Cicero At The Boathouse In Central Park, The Blue Kangaroo, and The Visiting Room have been produced Off-Off-Broadway, the last a Critics’ Choice selection in an annual Samuel French Short Play Festival. Other plays have been presented by Stageplays Theatre Company at various venues in New York City. Stageplays has published two collections of Al’s short plays: The Biggie and Other One-Act Plays, Vol. 1 (2009), and Testosterone and Other One-Act Plays, Vol. 2 (2009). Al has worked in the fields of newspapers and advertising, and has been a teacher of English in the New York City high schools. He has taught writing at Hofstra University, and has written film and drama criticism for Long Island weeklies. Father of four and grandfather of nine, he resides in Malverne, New York. Al Meglin joined Stageplays Board of Advisors in 2005.
