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Faye Sholiton (b. 1948) is a Cleveland, Ohio-area playwright. Prior to writing plays, she was an award-winning journalist
for local, regional and national publications, including the Cleveland Jewish News. She served as president of the Society
of Professional Journalists from 1993-1994. Sholiton is a graduate of Shaker Heights High School, and she holds a master's
degree in French language and literature from George Washington University. Sholiton's full-length works have been read
or produced in more than three dozen venues throughout the country and have won more than twenty national honors. She has
developed her work in the Cleveland Play House Playwrights' Unit since 1996 and in Dobama Theatre's Playwrights' Gym since
2009. She is a three-time winner of Individual Artist Grants from the Ohio Arts Council, and her plays have also won awards
from the Dayton FutureFest, the Midwest Theatre Network New Play Festival, the Charlotte Festival of New American Plays, and
the William & Arlene Lewis New Play Contest. Sholiton's works are largely about Jewish life in Cleveland. Her most successful
plays, The Interview and V-E Day, relate to the history of World War II. The collection consists of of articles, correspondence,
drafts, flier, newsletters, newspaper clippings, programs, proposals, scripts, and transcripts.
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