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, and won 2nd place in the Writer’s Digest Writing Competition. It was also a selected project at the Verge Theater in Bozeman, Montana. Her 10 minute one act play, That's What She Said, was produced in three theaters in 2023. An Untethered Woman, a one act play about grief, had a staged reading production, February 2024 by the Anaconda Ensemble Theatre. An Untethered Woman has also placed as an Honorable Mention in William Faulkner Literary Competition, as a semi-finalist in Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards and was a Quarterfinalist at the Austin Film Festival. Most recently, An Untethered Woman was awarded a Spotlight Grant by the Myrna Loy support for Montana artists program to present a staged reading in November 2024.
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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