Pam Harbaugh was the theatre critic and arts writer for 25 years at Florida Today newspaper on Florida’s Space Coast. Now a freelancer, she writes about the theatre for Vero News and Florida Theatre On Stage. Her play Casserole was one of six winners in the 2020 national competition sponsored by the American Association of Community Theatre. Her earlier play, Snowfall, a drama, was a winner at the New Works Festival at the Henegar Center in Melbourne, Fla. She served on the American Theatre Critics Association’s Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award committee and was the resident director for the inaugural season of Theatre on the Edge, which was awarded Best New Theater Company by the Orlando Weekly. Harbaugh started a children’s theatre program at the 13th Street Theatre in New York City and later founded the Junior Theatre Workshop and ran it for more than 25 years in Florida. She has directed throughout East Central Florida and currently directs for the South Beach Players, while continuing to write.
