The White Rose at Prime Stage Theatre

James DeVita, a native of Long Island, NY, is an author and an actor. Along with his novels, The Silenced, Blue, and A Winsome Murder, Jim has also worked extensively as a playwright. His plays for young audiences include: The White Rose, The Amazing Lemonade Girl, The Thief Lord; A Midnight Cry (The story of the Underground Railroad); Rose of Treason (The true story of Sophie Scholl and The White Rose); Trials: the story of Joan of Arc, and Beth; A Little House Christmas; The Prince and the Pauper; Zero Tolerance (Youth violence); Wonderland (Musical based on Lewis Carroll 's work); The Christmas Angel; Treasure Island; Dinosaur; The Three Musketeers; Looking Glass Land; Bambi, A Life in the Woods; Arthur: The Boy Who Would Be King; Swiss Family Robinson; Pollyanna, Tom Sawyer; and Huckleberry Finn. Awards include: The Distinguished Play Award from The American Alliance of Theater and Education; The Intellectual Freedom Award by the Kentucky Council of Teachers of English/Language Arts; the Shubert Fendrich Memorial Playwrighting Contest, and The American Alliance of Theater and Education honored his body of work with the Charlotte B. Chorpenning Award. Jim is also a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Fiction. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and Actor's Equity Association.