Moniz, Wayne

Wayne Moniz was born and raised on Maui and received his B.A. in English and Communications from the University of Dayton, Ohio and his M.A. in Theater Arts and Film from U.C.L.A. Dubbed the "Dean of Maui Playwrights" by the Maui News, Wayne received the 2005 Cades Award for Literature, Hawaii's most prestigious writing prize for his body of work that includes fourteen plays, several screenplays, poetry, and song lyrics. In 2010 he was awarded the Ka Palapala Pookela Readers' Choice Book of the Year given by the Hawaii Book Publishers Association for his first book of short stories, Under Maui...