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Cynthia Webb completed degrees in Photography and Mass Communication. Her work experience includes public radio dj, TV production assistant, wildland firefighter and EMT. Her writing ranges from public service messages, TV commercials, newspaper op-eds, congressional testimony, screenplays and dramatic theater.

Combining a love of visual expression and writing, Ms. Webb crafted a screenwriting career that has resulted in numerous awards. Her screenplays have won the Sautter Memorial, Kern Film Festival, Cash Pot Contest and International Horror Hotel's Film Festival's Best Script Overall. They’ve been selected projects at Stowe Story Lab and Nostos Screenwriting Retreat, as well as being finalists at multiple film festivals. 

Her one act play, Driver's Ed has had multiple productions. This comic mother and daughter play was also a selection at the first Montana Playwrights Conference in Helena, Montana, and won 2nd place in the Writer's Digest Writing Competition. It was also a selected project at the Verge Theater Writer's Conference in Bozeman, Montana. In 2025, Driver's Ed was included in the Verge Theater New Play Fest.

Her 10 minute one act play, That's What She Said, was produced in three theaters in 2023.

An Untethered Woman, a magic realism one act play about grief, enjoyed a rehearsed reading production February 2024 by the Anaconda Ensemble Theatre in a venue with a sold out audience. this play was also awarded Honorable Mention in the William Faulkner Literary Competition. Most recently, An Untethered Woman received a Spotlight Grant from the Myrna Loy Grants to Artists program to support a staged reading in the 2024/2025 season, and was chosen for inclusion in the Verge Theater's New Play Fest 2025. A short film screenplay version of the play was a semi-finalist in Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards, a Quarterfinalist at the Austin Film Festival and on the short list at Barnstorm Fest.

An Untethered Woman also spawned a follow-up (kind of but not really) 15 minute one act play titled, The Further Adventures of Esmerandrella. Psychic to the Confused and Misbegotten. 

She has produced four one-woman photography shows, two funded by grants. 

An Experiment in Encaustic Photography
Stonehenge: Within the Circle
The Devil’s Backyard – After the Burn: The Meriwether Fire 
Women at Work: Positive Images for Middle School Girls 

 

She is a member of the Dramatists Guild.

Most recently she’s learning to play bluegrass ukulele. She loves to kayak and is an avid drone pilot. 

 

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Cynthia Webb is a produced playwright, an award-winning screenwriter and poet, lifelong photographer, avid drone pilot and wannabe bluegrass ukulele player. She/her.