Cindi Sansone Braff Making Her Mark As A Long Island Playwright

(Full disclosure Cindi Sansone-Braff is my wife. Lucky me)

Long Island born and raised successful Playwright Cindi Sansone-Braff has been almost fifty years in the making. Cindi graduated with honors from the University of Connecticut at Storrs, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a major in acting, directing, and playwriting. This last year due to Covid a new type of playwriting has evolved, “Zoom Plays,” and Cindi started writing them. Along with her new zoom plays Cindi had a very productive year having her plays produced. To the Zoom and Back,(for zoom) The Karma Bums, and Welcome to the House of Karma received stage readings by the Fishlicker Improv group in 2020. “To the Zoom and Back,” actually shared winning Audience Favorite Award, of the Think Fast Theater Festival 2021 and now it is a winner in the 2nd Act Players Spring 2021 Script Competition. “No Rest for a Soul” is in the Equity Library Theater Festival Spring 2021. Cindi is proud of her recent achievements saying, “I am glad my work is being appreciated by so many folks across the nation. Until recent technology you had to print up scripts and mail them out, an expensive and time consuming process. Now you hit a file, attach it and send it, and boom it’s instantly where you want it to be.”

Cindi Sansone-Braff’s also has written full-length, plays. Her dramatic play, A Whole, Empty House, was a finalist in the Robert A. Forest Playwriting Competition. Her full-length, romantic comedy, Angel’s Mice and Men, was a finalist in Lodi’s National New Play contest and Theatre Festival and was produced the summer of 2019 at the Summerfest Theater Festival at the Hudson Guild Theatre in NYC and was published in 2021 by Next Stage Press. Her full-length, dramatic play, Phantom Pain, was a finalist in the Playwrights Center’s Playlab program in Minneapolis. Her full-length, music drama Beethoven’s Promethean Concerto in C Minor WoO was produced at the BACCA Center on Long Island in August 2017 and received rave reviews.

Cindi also has a full time job as a psychic medium and was awarded Long Island Press Best Psychic for 5 consecutive years (2010-2015!) She is has also posted many respected theatre reviews for East Hampton Patch.

Here is her website https://www.grantmeahigherlove.com/

With this success has come some solace in knowing that her voice as a Long Island playwright is no longer a silent voice. “I am now getting emails from people who love the characters and say nice things about the plays. I remember back in college being told that there was no place in the theater for women playwrights, and to change my major. That professor is long gone, but I have proved him wrong, but in a nice way because I do use some of the skills that he taught me. Over the last 40 years I have read over a hundred books on playwriting, plays or stories of playwrights. I love Tennessee Williams and was thrilled to attend a lecture by Edward Albee back and in the day. Unfortunately back then it was tough, impossible to find financial backers for my early awarding winning plays. I never gave up, I am now enjoying the fruits of my labors, and it has inspired me to create new plays, in new forms for new audiences. However there is a lot of Long Island in most of my characters."

Cindi is the author of Grant Me a Higher Love and Why Good People Can’t Leave Bad Relationships. (Both available on Amazon.) She is a proud member of the Long Island Authors’ Group, and the Dramatists Guild.