L.D. Napier

L.D. Napier completed a first book at eight years old. Since then L.D. has written hundreds of essays, fifteen screenplays, several documentaries, a well received off-Broadway play, along with completing a first novel, "Here Comes the Sun..." inspired by true stories during hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Napier is working on a second novel and will make a writing/directing debut with an Independant feature film, "Mis-Fits," aka "Tweet Me" * a quirky comedy in the tone of "Harold and Maude." In 2008, Napier wrote, directed, and co-producer a play at La MaMa in New York City called "The G Word: For Those Born Later" to try to invoke action against the genocide in Darfur. All the proceeds from the play and a fundraiser went to three on the ground organizations in Darfur. Producing partner, Doug Claybourne, noted "about $30k was raised for Darfurians along with circulating a petition to the comptroller of New York City to divest from companies profiting in Darfur - we succeeded in our goal." One of Napier's dreams is to take a crew to Darfur to teach play writing and performance workshops to the children and women of Darfur with the idea of bringing their stories back to the U.S. - direct performances of them, tape them - then return with the tapes to Darfur. Napier also hopes to start an arts program for kids in New Orleans with some of the proceeds of her book. L.D. Napier has been the recipient of multiple grants and awards for writing, including the Benjamin Lazaroff Screenwriting Award and a Mid-Atlantic Regional Media Arts Fellowship. Her screenplays have been read and performed publicly and optioned multiple times over the years. Her essays have also been read on public radio. L.D.'s documentary, The Incremental Injury, received a Telly award, and her most recent documentary, Every 21 Seconds: Or Why I Scream at the Refrigerator, with Woody Harrelson, won the International Health & Medical Media Award. L.D. Napier has taught creative writing, non-fiction narrative writing, screenwriting, and broadcast news writing at various Universities including Temple, Loyola, CUNY, and The College of Santa Fe. L.D. has also taught film directing, documentary production, creative writing in workshops and play writing to inner-city students. Six years ago Napier took off to teach writing as an artist in residence for a semester at Soledad maximum-security prison. The goal was to learn from both inside and outside of the system to help shift the direction of its flow. Napier is living and working in Doylestown, Pennsylvania north of Philly.