Paula Cizmar is an American academic, playwright and librettist.
Cizmar's work has been selected for EnVision, the Sundance Theatre Lab, and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; a National Endowment for the Arts grant; a nomination to The Kilroy List, a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation; and a TCG/Mellon Foundation On the Road grant. .She has served residencies at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy;
Cizmar's works include The Death of a Miner, Candy & Shelley Go To the Desert, Still Life with Parrot & Monkey, Ghost Dance on Mulholland, Bone Dry, The Last Nights of Scheherazade, January, and Street Stories.
Cizmar is an associate professor at the University of Southern California teaching playwriting.[1]