PAULA CASTNER

Paula Castner is the Campus Director for the Art of Problem Solving Lexington as well as a freelance writer, playwright, drama director, writing workshop facilitator, baking coach, and professional administrator. Though she received her certification for writing children’s literature, she writes in multiple genres. Her pieces have been published in a variety of venues, from parenting magazines, to newspapers, to online magazines, and have claimed first prize in several writing contests. Her play, A Fairy Tale Life? A Musical, with music by Canadian folk artist, Nancy Beaudette, was performed in Lancaster, Massachusetts. She is currently working on her second musical, Museum Follies, set in an art museum. Her long term writing project is a fictionalized account of a historical court case about a slave girl from Holden, MA. She is an original founder of Seven Bridge Writers’ Collaborative and served as its Chief Operating Officer.