Paula Cizmar

Scenes from Cizmar's opera, The Night Flight of Minerva's Owl were performed at Pittsburgh Festival Opera in their Music That Matters program in both 2018 and 2019. The opera premieres in 2020.

Cizmar co-authored the documentary theatre piece Seven, with Carol K. Mack, Catherine Filloux, Gail Kriegel, Ruth Margraff, Susan Yankowitz, and Anna Deavere Smith. Seven has been produced at the 18th Istanbul International Theatre Festival, and has been translated in over 20 languages. It has also been performed in Amman, Jordan, Tokyo, Japan, Riga, Latvia, and Rabat, Morocco. Seven has been recorded by LA Theatre Works and was named Best Audio Book, memoir category, in 2017.

Cizmar collaborated on The Hotel Play, which was produced on the grounds of the downtown LA Radisson Hotel in 2017.

Paula Cizmar (born 1949) is an American academic, playwright and librettist.

Paula was born on August 30, 1949 in Youngstown, Ohio. She grew up in Youngstown, and as a child played piano and wrote poetry. She attended Chaney High School before continuing on to Ohio University where she was in the Honors College. She majored in English and wrote for the Ohio University Post, which led to an internship on the Detroit Free Press, where she covered everything from the courts to crime to feature stories. After holding this position, and a stint writing magazine articles, she changed her focus to solely creative writing endeavors.