Persephone Vandegrift

Persephone Vandegrift is a multi award-winning screenwriter and playwright. After starting out very young on the stage, Persephone pursued a degree in Theatre, and History at Suny-Albany. Shortly after graduating, she decided to take the literary path and wrote and produced her first play, "Revenge and Sorrow in Thebes", a full-length adaptation of "The Bacchae of Euripides" which was nominated as one of the Top 6 most memorable theatre productions in 2009 by The Seattle Weekly. Shortly after, she wrote, co-directed, and co-executive produced her award-winning short script "All Things Hidden". She followed up "All Things Hidden" with another award-winning short, "The Last Light", which she wrote and co-produced. Her fiction and poetry have been published in the US and internationally. Her stage-plays have been produced across the US. She is the screenwriter of multi award-winning screenplays "The Water King", "Death Of A Mortal Woman", "Esther's Den", and short script "In The Stars", and associate producer for upcoming fantasy/thriller "The Furies".