DonnaMarie Vaughan

DonnaMarie Vaughan is a screenwriter, playwright, filmmaker and actress who lives in the Buffalo NY area. As an actress, she has appeared in local, regional and national motion pictures, as well as commercials (TV and web) and industrial/training films. DonnaMarie is both a produced, award-winning screenwriter and playwright. For film work, she was the writer/director of the feature film, "Henry's Future" and wrote/co-directed the shorts "Mary's Christmas" and "Homecoming". Other short films have been produced by others, including an adaptation of her award-winning play, "Stuck" which starred Steve Brisco. "Stuck" won the 1995 National Comedy Compact Award. For the stage, DonnaMarie has had numerous productions of her plays, many which have been published. Awards include the 1988 Area Playwrights Performance Series Award for the full-length drama "Second Tuesdays", and the 1995 Comedy Compact Award for "Stuck". Special note goes to her full length drama "In Sickness and In Health" (renamed Emmett's Promise" as a screenplay) which, when produced in 1993 shed an early light on devastating effect Alzheimer's Disease had on a family. Shelly Fabres, then president of the National Alzheimer's Association met and praised DonnaMarie for the reality of the play after a reading in North Carolina. DonnaMarie is working on a TV series "Her Second Life" and a stage play about veterans, "Words of War"