Primary Stages Theater
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Primary Stages was founded in 1984 by Casey Childs
as a New York State non-profit theater company with the mission of producing new plays and fostering the artistic development of emerging and established playwrights.
In 2004, Primary Stages moved from its 99-seat home of 17 years on West 45th Street to the 199-seat theater at 59E59 Theaters
.
, A.R. Gurney, Willy Holtzman
, Julia Jordan, Romulus Linney
, Donald Margulies
, Christopher Durang
, Terrence McNally
, John Henry Redwood, John Patrick Shanley
, Mac Wellman
, Lee Blessing
, and David Ives
.
Primary Stages 9th season included the world premiere of All in the Timing
by David Ives, the most produced play in the United States during the 1995/1996 season.
http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/ATtopten.cfm#1995
In Mother Words, Conceived by Susan Rose and Joan Stein and written by Leslie Ayvazian, David Cale, Jessica Goldberg, Beth Henley, Lameece Issaq, Lisa Loomer, Michele Lowe, Marco Pennette, Lisa Ramirez, Theresa Rebeck, Luanne Rice, Annie Weisman and Cheryl L. West;
Rx, by Kate Fodor;
and The Morini Strad by Willy Holtzman
Primary Stages is host to the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, which brings together six to eight emerging playwrights each season to create new plays for the American theater. Under the direction of Primary Stages Associate Artistic Director Michelle Bossy, these playwrights attend weekly meetings in the fall and spring, where they bring new pages to each session and receive feedback on their works in progress. At the end of the season, Primary Stages presents the first public reading of these plays in The Dorothy Strelsin Fresh Ink Readings Series.
Since its inception, over 45 full-length plays have been written in the Group, many of which have been produced by prominent local and national theaters including Long Wharf Theatre
, Blue Light, South Coast Repertory
, The New Group
, New York Stage and Film, Cherry Lane Theatre
, and of course, Primary Stages.
Current members:
Bekah Brunstetter, David Caudle, Cheri Magid, Rogelio Martínez, Janine Nabers, Tommy Smith, and Adam Szymkowicz
Past members:
David Lindsay Abaire
, Tanya Barfield
, Courtney Baron, Neena Beber, Alex Beech, Brooke Berman
, Darren Canady, Andrew Case, Cusi Cram, Janis Astor del Valle, Bruce Faulk, Josh Fox, Jessica Goldberg
, Daniel Goldfarb, Rinne Groff
, Stephen Adly Guirgis
, Katori Hall
, Jerome Hairston, Rolin Jones
, Julia Jordan
, Dan O’Brien, Edwin Sanchez, Julian Sheppard, Lucy Thurber
, Sheri Wilner
Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA)
The Primary Stages Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), formerly the Primary Stages School of Theater, is an interdisciplinary institution where students may hone their skills and develop their careers in a nurturing and collaborative environment. Having house over one-thousand students, the School provides extensive opportunities for emerging artists, professionals, and life-long learners to collaborate with working professional artists while building strong relationships within the New York theater community.
ESPA offers a series of intensive classes in acting, playwriting, and directing taught by industry professionals that include PS Staff members Casey Childs
(Founder and Executive Producer of Primary Stages), Andrew Leynse
(Artistic Director), Michelle Bossy (Associate Artistic Director), along with David Laundra and Linda Laundra, Tanya Barfield
, Cusi Cram, Stephanie Klapper, Blair Singer, Rogelio Martínez
, Edwin Sanchez, Lucy Thurber
and Morgan Jenness
. Previous faculty members include Julia Jordan, Brooke Berman, Sarah Ruhl, Constance Congdon, BH Barry, and Kim Wield. The school is run by Tessa LaNeve.
Acting students work closely with playwriting students to help create and foster new American plays. Learning how to work on a play in development is a key component to becoming a successful actor. A balance of studying pieces by emerging writers and collaborating on works-in-progress allows actors to hone their skills while keeping them on their toes. Acting classes have included: Television Acting, Advanced Scene Study, Auditioning Techniques, The Monologue, On-Camera Auditioning and Solo Performance.
Core playwriting classes provide students with the tools necessary to complete a first draft through writing exercises, workshopped readings and insight from working playwrights. Small classes of 6-8 offer an intimate setting and the opportunity to have new work read aloud each week. Classes are for all skill levels, from first time writers to those who have hit a road block with their current piece. Playwriting classes have included: Face the Blank Page and Write, The Rewrite, Comedy Writing, Adaptation, Experimental Theater and Television Writing.
With classes designed for directors and non-directors alike, the directing department offers a series of programs throughout the year to build your confidence behind the table and expand your way of thinking about performance. Classes include Collaborations, Workshops, as well as concentrations in Film and Stage directing.
ESPA is now providing an artistic home to over four-hundred emerging artists.
In 2009, Primary Stages received its first Tony Nomination for Dividing the Estate by Horton Foote.
http://www.primarystages.org/about.htm
Casey Childs
Casey Childs is the Founder and Executive Producer of Primary Stages Company, a New York State non-profit, off-Broadway theatre company in New York City...
as a New York State non-profit theater company with the mission of producing new plays and fostering the artistic development of emerging and established playwrights.
In 2004, Primary Stages moved from its 99-seat home of 17 years on West 45th Street to the 199-seat theater at 59E59 Theaters
59E59 Theaters
59E59 Theaters is an Off Broadway theater complex located in New York City, USA. Comprising three theater spaces, the complex is owned and operated by the Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation that is dedicated to bringing innovative and experimental work to the...
.
History
Now entering its 26th season, Primary Stages has given life to more than 90 new plays, many of them world premieres, by writers such as Horton FooteHorton Foote
Albert Horton Foote, Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television...
, A.R. Gurney, Willy Holtzman
Willy Holtzman
Willy Holtzman is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received, two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild Award, a Peabody Award, as well as an HBO Award at the National...
, Julia Jordan, Romulus Linney
Romulus Linney (playwright)
Romulus Zachariah Linney IV was an American playwright and professor.-Life and career:Linney was born in Philadelphia, the son of Maitland Clabaugh and Romulus Zachariah Linney III. His great-grandfather was Republican Congressman Romulus Zachariah Linney. Linney was raised in Boone, North...
, Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University...
, Christopher Durang
Christopher Durang
Christopher Ferdinand Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.- Life :...
, Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally
Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...
, John Henry Redwood, John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley
John Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He also contributed articles on the performing arts to The New York Times among other publications.-Life and career:...
, Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...
, Lee Blessing
Lee Blessing
-Biography:Blessing's best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation...
, and David Ives
David Ives
David Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting...
.
Primary Stages 9th season included the world premiere of All in the Timing
All in the Timing
All in the Timing is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives written between 1987 and 1993. It was first published by Dramatists Play Service in 1994, with a collection of six plays; however, the updated collection contains fourteen. The short plays are almost all...
by David Ives, the most produced play in the United States during the 1995/1996 season.
http://www.tcg.org/publications/at/ATtopten.cfm#1995
Current Season 2010/2011
"Secrets of the Trade", a New York Premiere by Jonathen Tolins, "In Transit", a World Premiere Musical by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth, and "Black Tie", a World Premiere by A.R. Gurney.Upcoming Season 2011/2012
Olive and the Bitter Herbs, by Charles Busch;In Mother Words, Conceived by Susan Rose and Joan Stein and written by Leslie Ayvazian, David Cale, Jessica Goldberg, Beth Henley, Lameece Issaq, Lisa Loomer, Michele Lowe, Marco Pennette, Lisa Ramirez, Theresa Rebeck, Luanne Rice, Annie Weisman and Cheryl L. West;
Rx, by Kate Fodor;
and The Morini Strad by Willy Holtzman
Education
Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers GroupPrimary Stages is host to the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, which brings together six to eight emerging playwrights each season to create new plays for the American theater. Under the direction of Primary Stages Associate Artistic Director Michelle Bossy, these playwrights attend weekly meetings in the fall and spring, where they bring new pages to each session and receive feedback on their works in progress. At the end of the season, Primary Stages presents the first public reading of these plays in The Dorothy Strelsin Fresh Ink Readings Series.
Since its inception, over 45 full-length plays have been written in the Group, many of which have been produced by prominent local and national theaters including Long Wharf Theatre
Long Wharf Theatre
Long Wharf Theatre is a nonprofit institution in New Haven, Connecticut, a pioneer in the not-for-profit regional theatre movement, the originator of several prominent plays, and a venue where many internationally known actors have appeared....
, Blue Light, South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory
South Coast Repertory is a professional theatre company located in Costa Mesa, California.Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory, founded in 1964 by David Emmes and Martin Benson and now under the leadership of Artistic Director Marc Masterson and Managing Director Paula Tomei, is widely...
, The New Group
The New Group
The New Group, an Off-Broadway theater company located at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. Founded by Artistic Director Scott Elliott, The New Group produced its first play, Mike Leigh's...
, New York Stage and Film, Cherry Lane Theatre
Cherry Lane Theatre
The Cherry Lane Theatre , located at 38 Commerce Street in the borough of Manhattan, was New York City's oldest, continuously running off-Broadway theater...
, and of course, Primary Stages.
Current members:
Bekah Brunstetter, David Caudle, Cheri Magid, Rogelio Martínez, Janine Nabers, Tommy Smith, and Adam Szymkowicz
Past members:
David Lindsay Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire
David Lindsay-Abaire is an American playwright and lyricist. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2007 for his play Rabbit Hole, which also earned several Tony Award nominations.-Early life and education:...
, Tanya Barfield
Tanya Barfield
Tanya Barfield is an African-American playwright and actress whose works have been presented both nationally and internationally with such festivals and companies as the Arena Stage, The Royal Court Theatre, the New York Theatre Workshop, Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Hartford Stage.Her plays...
, Courtney Baron, Neena Beber, Alex Beech, Brooke Berman
Brooke Berman
Brooke Berman is an American playwright and author. Her play Hunting and Gathering, which premiered at Primary Stages, directed by Leigh Silverman, was named one of the Ten Best of 2008 by New York magazine...
, Darren Canady, Andrew Case, Cusi Cram, Janis Astor del Valle, Bruce Faulk, Josh Fox, Jessica Goldberg
Jessica Goldberg
Jessica Goldberg is an American playwright, screenwriter and television writer.-Life:Jessica is a graduate of the Dramatic Writing Program at New York University, and The Juilliard School...
, Daniel Goldfarb, Rinne Groff
Rinne Groff
-Biography:Groff was trained at Yale University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches.A founding member of Elevator Repair Service Theater Company, she has been a part of the writing, staging, and performing of their shows since the company’s inception in...
, Stephen Adly Guirgis
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Stephen Adly Guirgis is an American playwright, screenwriter, director, and actor. He is a member and co-artistic director of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States....
, Katori Hall
Katori Hall
Katori Hall is an American playwright, journalist and actress from Memphis, Tennessee.Her play The Mountaintop, about Martin Luther King's last night before his assassination, premiered in London in 2009 to great critical acclaim. After a sell-out run at Theatre 503, the play transferred to the...
, Jerome Hairston, Rolin Jones
Rolin Jones
Rolin Jones is a playwright and television writer. He has worked on Showtime's Weeds and NBC drama Friday Night Lights. His plays include The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow: An Instant Message with Excitable Music and Sovereignty....
, Julia Jordan
Julia Jordan (writer)
Julia Jordan is an award-winning American playwright, television and screenwriter. She is a graduate of Barnard College, class of 1989, and received a masters degree from Trinity, Dublin.-Personal life:...
, Dan O’Brien, Edwin Sanchez, Julian Sheppard, Lucy Thurber
Lucy Thurber
-Career:As of 2007, she is the author of eight plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Innocence is a Sin, Killers & Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World, Monstrosity, and Scarcity. She was the recipient of the 2000/2001 Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship...
, Sheri Wilner
Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA)
Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA)
The Primary Stages Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts is an interdisciplinary institution in New York City that offers courses in Acting, Writing and Directing.-History:...
The Primary Stages Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), formerly the Primary Stages School of Theater, is an interdisciplinary institution where students may hone their skills and develop their careers in a nurturing and collaborative environment. Having house over one-thousand students, the School provides extensive opportunities for emerging artists, professionals, and life-long learners to collaborate with working professional artists while building strong relationships within the New York theater community.
ESPA offers a series of intensive classes in acting, playwriting, and directing taught by industry professionals that include PS Staff members Casey Childs
Casey Childs
Casey Childs is the Founder and Executive Producer of Primary Stages Company, a New York State non-profit, off-Broadway theatre company in New York City...
(Founder and Executive Producer of Primary Stages), Andrew Leynse
Andrew Leynse
Andrew Leynse is the Artistic Director of the Off-Broadway theater company Primary Stages Theater in New York City.Andrew teaches Playwrighting and Acting for Primary Stages School of Theatre, Theatre Theory for Carnegie Mellon University, and is an artistic advisor for the Drama League, and an...
(Artistic Director), Michelle Bossy (Associate Artistic Director), along with David Laundra and Linda Laundra, Tanya Barfield
Tanya Barfield
Tanya Barfield is an African-American playwright and actress whose works have been presented both nationally and internationally with such festivals and companies as the Arena Stage, The Royal Court Theatre, the New York Theatre Workshop, Seattle Repertory Theatre and the Hartford Stage.Her plays...
, Cusi Cram, Stephanie Klapper, Blair Singer, Rogelio Martínez
Rogelio Martínez
Rogelio Bautista Martínez Ulloa was a former pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Washington Senators during the season. Listed at 6' 0", 180 lb., Martínez batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Cidra, Matanzas Province, Cuba...
, Edwin Sanchez, Lucy Thurber
Lucy Thurber
-Career:As of 2007, she is the author of eight plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Innocence is a Sin, Killers & Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World, Monstrosity, and Scarcity. She was the recipient of the 2000/2001 Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship...
and Morgan Jenness
Morgan Jenness
Morgan Jenness is a freelance dramaturg based in New York City.For over 10 years, Jenness worked at the Public Theater, under both George C.Wolfe and Joseph Papp in roles ranging from literary manager to Director of Play Development to Associate Producer of the NY Shakespeare Festival...
. Previous faculty members include Julia Jordan, Brooke Berman, Sarah Ruhl, Constance Congdon, BH Barry, and Kim Wield. The school is run by Tessa LaNeve.
Acting students work closely with playwriting students to help create and foster new American plays. Learning how to work on a play in development is a key component to becoming a successful actor. A balance of studying pieces by emerging writers and collaborating on works-in-progress allows actors to hone their skills while keeping them on their toes. Acting classes have included: Television Acting, Advanced Scene Study, Auditioning Techniques, The Monologue, On-Camera Auditioning and Solo Performance.
Core playwriting classes provide students with the tools necessary to complete a first draft through writing exercises, workshopped readings and insight from working playwrights. Small classes of 6-8 offer an intimate setting and the opportunity to have new work read aloud each week. Classes are for all skill levels, from first time writers to those who have hit a road block with their current piece. Playwriting classes have included: Face the Blank Page and Write, The Rewrite, Comedy Writing, Adaptation, Experimental Theater and Television Writing.
With classes designed for directors and non-directors alike, the directing department offers a series of programs throughout the year to build your confidence behind the table and expand your way of thinking about performance. Classes include Collaborations, Workshops, as well as concentrations in Film and Stage directing.
ESPA is now providing an artistic home to over four-hundred emerging artists.
Awards
Over the years, the company has received considerable critical acclaim and numerous theater and literary awards and nominations, including Obie, AUDELCO, Outer Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Drama Desk Awards. The Fourth Wall, All in the Timing, The Old Settler, Missing/Kissing, The Model Apartment, Scotland Road, You Should Be So Lucky, The Stendhal Syndrome, Sabina, Dividing the Estate and In The Continuum are among the many plays brought to national attention by Primary Stages.In 2009, Primary Stages received its first Tony Nomination for Dividing the Estate by Horton Foote.
http://www.primarystages.org/about.htm
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Production History
- A Lifetime Burning (Cusi Cram)
- The Nightwatcher (Charlayne WoodardCharlayne WoodardCharlaine "Charlayne" Woodard is an American film, stage and television actress and playwright. She has written four plays, titled Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life, which she starred in, and "Flight"....
) - Happy Now? (Lucinda Cox)
- Buffalo Gal (A.R. Gurney)
- A Body of Water (Lee BlessingLee Blessing-Biography:Blessing's best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation...
) - Love Child (Daniel Jenkins and Robert StantonRobert Stanton (actor)Robert Lloyd Stanton is an American film, television and stage actor, director and playwright. He has appeared in many films, including A League of Their Own and Confessions of a Shopaholic...
) - Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (Donald MarguliesDonald MarguliesDonald Margulies is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University...
) - Chasing Manet (Tina HoweTina HoweTina Howe is an American playwright. She is the daughter of journalist Quincy Howe and was raised in a literary family...
) - Opus (Michael HollingerMichael HollingerMichael Hollinger is an American playwright who is currently an assistant professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a resident playwright at . He received a Bachelor of Music in viola performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 1984 and a Master of Arts in theatre from Villanova in 1989...
) - Dividing the Estate (Horton FooteHorton FooteAlbert Horton Foote, Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television...
) - Hunting and Gathering (Brooke Berman)
- Something You Did (Willy HoltzmanWilly HoltzmanWilly Holtzman is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received, two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild Award, a Peabody Award, as well as an HBO Award at the National...
) - Indian Blood (A.R. Gurney)
- Southern Comforts (Kathleen ClarkKathleen ClarkKathleen Burton Clarke was the national director of the United States Bureau of Land Management from 2001–2006.Clarke received her bachelor's degree from Utah State University. She was a law student at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.Clarke is a member of The Church of...
) - Adrift in Macao (Christopher DurangChristopher DurangChristopher Ferdinand Durang is an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s.- Life :...
) - Exits and Entrances (Athol FugardAthol FugardAthol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...
) - Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams (Terrence McNallyTerrence McNallyTerrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...
) - In The Continuum (Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter)
- The Right Kind of People (Charles GrodinCharles GrodinCharles Grodin is an American actor, comedian, author and former cable talk show host. Grodin began his acting career in the 1960s appearing in TV serials including The Virginian. He had a small part as an obstetrician in Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby in 1968...
) - A Safe Harbor for Elizabeth Bishop (Marta Goes)
- The Day Emily MarriedThe Day Emily Married-Setting:The setting is in the early summer of 1956 and takes place in Harrison, Texas. -Synopsis:...
(Horton FooteHorton FooteAlbert Horton Foote, Jr. was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television...
) - String of Pearls (Michele Lowe)
- Sabina (Willy HoltzmanWilly HoltzmanWilly Holtzman is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received, two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild Award, a Peabody Award, as well as an HBO Award at the National...
) - Going To St. Ives (Lee BlessingLee Blessing-Biography:Blessing's best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation...
) - Strictly Academic (A. R. GurneyA. R. GurneyA. R. Gurney is an American playwright and novelist. He is known for works including Love Letters, The Cocktail Hour, and The Dining Room. Gurney currently lives in both New York and Connecticut....
) - The Stendhal Syndrome (Terrence McNallyTerrence McNallyTerrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...
) - Boy (Julia Jordan)
- Call The Children Home (Thomas BabeThomas BabeThomas Babe was an American playwright, writing mainly during the mid 70s and 80s. He was the son of Thomas James and Ruth Ina Babe. He died of lung cancer on December 6, 2000, in a hospice in Stamford, Connecticut. .Babe's work brought together many elements of American history and cultural...
) - The Fourth Wall (A.R. Gurney)
- One Million Butterflies (Stephen BelberStephen BelberStephen Belber is an American playwright , screenwriter and film director.-Early life:Belber was born in Washington, D.C.. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and moved to New York at the age of 25. There he unwittingly moved in with a roommate with AIDS,...
) - Romola & Nijinsky (Lynne Alvarez)
- An Immaculate Misconception (Carl DjerassiCarl DjerassiCarl Djerassi is an Austrian-American chemist, novelist, and playwright best known for his contribution to the development of the first oral contraceptive pill . Djerassi is emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University.He participated in the invention in 1951, together with Mexican Luis E...
) - One Shot, One Kill (Richard VetereRichard VetereRichard Vetere is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer, poet and an actor.Vetere's plays have been produced Off Broadway, regionally and internationally, such as The Engagement, Coupla Bimbos Sittin' Around Talkin, Gangster Apperal,Caravaiggo, Machiavelli, and One Shot, One Kill...
) - Straight As a Line (Luis AlfaroLuis AlfaroLuis Alfaro is a renowned Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist. His plays and fiction are set in Los Angeles's Chicano barrios, including the Pico Union district, and often feature gay and lesbian and working-class themes. Many of Alfaro's plays also deal with...
) - Krisit (Y York)
- No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs (John Henry Redwood)
- Byrd's Boy (Bruce J. Robinson)
- Barefoot Boy with Shoes On (Edwin Sanchez)
- Elsa Edgar (Bob Kingdom with Neil BartlettNeil Bartlett (playwright)Neil Vivian Bartlett, OBE, is an award-winning British director, performer, translator, and writer. He is one of the founding members of Gloria, a production company established in 1988 to produce his work along with that of Nicolas Bloomfield, Leah Hausman and Simon Mellor...
) - An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Bouef (Michael HollingerMichael HollingerMichael Hollinger is an American playwright who is currently an assistant professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a resident playwright at . He received a Bachelor of Music in viola performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 1984 and a Master of Arts in theatre from Villanova in 1989...
) - When They Speak of Rita (Daisy B. Foote)
- The Old Settler (John Henry Redwood)
- High Life (Lee MacDougall)
- The Turn of the Screw (Jeffrey HatcherJeffrey HatcherJeffrey Hatcher is a playwright and screenwriter. He wrote the stage play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which he later adapted into a screenplay, shortened to just Stage Beauty...
from the story by Henry James)
- Lips (Constance Congdon)
- This Lime Tree Bower (Conor McPhersonConor McPhersonConor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.-Life and career:McPherson was born in Dublin, . He was educated at University College Dublin, McPherson began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly By Night Theatre...
) - Brutality of Fact (Keith ReddinKeith ReddinKeith Reddin is an American actor and playwright. He received his B.S. in 1978 from Northwestern University and then went on to attend The Yale University School of Drama until he received his M.A. in 1981....
) - Scotland Road (Jeffrey Hatcher)
- St. Nicholas (Conor McPhersonConor McPhersonConor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.-Life and career:McPherson was born in Dublin, . He was educated at University College Dublin, McPherson began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly By Night Theatre...
) - Nasty Little Secrets (Lanie Robertson)
- Missing/Kissing (John Patrick ShanleyJohn Patrick ShanleyJohn Patrick Shanley is an American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He also contributed articles on the performing arts to The New York Times among other publications.-Life and career:...
) - Second-Hand Smoke (Mac WellmanMac WellmanMac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...
) - Not Waving (Gen LeRoy)
- Hate Mail (Bill CorbettBill CorbettBill Corbett is an American writer and performer for television, film and theatre. He was a writer and performer on the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 , for which he voiced the robot Crow T. Robot during the show's later seasons on the Sci Fi Channel and played the character...
and Kira Obolensky) - Mere Mortals (David IvesDavid IvesDavid Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting...
) - The Model Apartment (Donald MarguliesDonald MarguliesDonald Margulies is an American playwright and a professor of English and Theater Studies at Yale University...
) - The Preservation Society (William S. Leavengood)
- Virgins & Other Myths (Colin Martin)
- Sabina (Willy HoltzmanWilly HoltzmanWilly Holtzman is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received, two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild Award, a Peabody Award, as well as an HBO Award at the National...
) - Ancient History and English Made Simple (David IvesDavid IvesDavid Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting...
) - Laughing Matters (Nick UllettNick UllettNicholas Metson "Nick" Ullett is a British-born American actor.-Filmography:*Call of Duty: Finest Hour *Yes, Dear...
) - You Should Be So Lucky (Charles BuschCharles BuschCharles Louis Busch is an American actor, screenwriter, playwright and female impersonator, known for his appearances on stage in his own camp style plays and in film and television. He wrote The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, which was a success on Broadway.-Early life:Busch was born in 1954 and...
) - I Sent a Letter to My Love (Melissa ManchesterMelissa ManchesterMelissa Manchester is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage....
, Jeffrey SweetJeffrey SweetJeffrey Sweet is an American writer, journalist, songwriter and theatre historian. Sweet's father was the late James Sweet, a science writer for the University of Chicago who aided Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren in drafting two anti-McCarthy speeches; his mother is violinist Vivian...
) - Don Juan in Chicago (David IvesDavid IvesDavid Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting...
) - "2" Goering at Nuremberg (Romulus LinneyRomulus LinneyRomulus Linney may refer to:*Romulus Zachariah Linney , American politician*Romulus Linney , American playwright...
) - Breaking Up (Michael CristoferMichael CristoferMichael Ivan Cristofer is an American playwright, filmmaker and actor. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play for The Shadow Box in 1977....
) - All in the Timing (David IvesDavid IvesDavid Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting...
) - Crackdancing (Joseph Hindy)
- The Hyacinth Macaw (Mac WellmanMac WellmanMac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...
) - The Dolphin Position (Percy Granger)
- Bargains (Jack Heifner)
- Washington Square Moves (Matthew Witten)
- How She Played the Game (Cynthia L. Cooper)
- Olivia's Opus (Nora Cole)
- Joy Solution (Stuart Duckworth)
- Making Book (Janet Reed)
- A Murder of Crows (Mac WellmanMac WellmanMac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...
) - Lusting After Pepino's Wife (Sam Henry Kass)
- Better Days (Richard Dresser)
- Hollywood Scheherazade (Charlie Peters)
- Black Market (Joe SuttonJoe SuttonJoe Sutton is an American playwright. He writes in the traditional Aristotelian style. He teaches Playwrighting at Dartmouth College.He is the son of actor Frank Sutton....
) - Bovver Boys (Willy HoltzmanWilly HoltzmanWilly Holtzman is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received, two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild Award, a Peabody Award, as well as an HBO Award at the National...
) - Swim Visit (Wesley Moore)
- Sketchbook Series - Late Night Shows: Babel Stories (Matthew Maguire, The Traveling Squirrel (Robert Lord), The Secret Sits in the Middle (Lisa Maria Radano)
- At the Still Point (Jordan Roberts)
- Nasty Little Secrets (Lanie Robertson)
- Algerian Romance (Kres Mersky)
- Cellophane (Mac WellmanMac WellmanMac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...
) - China Wars (Robert LordRobert LordRobert Lord was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 71 films between 1925 and 1940. He won an Academy Award in 1933 in the category Best Writing, Original Story for the film One Way Passage...
) - Ancient History (David IvesDavid IvesDavid Ives is a contemporary American playwright. A native of South Chicago, Ives attended a minor Catholic seminary and Northwestern University and, after some years' interval, Yale School of Drama, where he received an MFA in playwriting...
) - Sketchbook Series - Late Night Political Comedy Sketches: The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of Debate (Joe DiPietro, Stephen Fife, Kathy Giamo and Mark Michaels)
- Stopping the Desert (Glen Merzer)
- The Wedding of the Siamese Twins (Burton Cohen)
- Angel Face (Laura HarringtonLaura HarringtonLaura Harrington is an American actress.Harrington is perhaps best known for her role as the main character's sister in the 1993 film What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Her character was aged around 20 though the actress herself was 35 at the time...
) - An Evening of Four One Acts:
- The Time I Died (Ron CarlsonRon Carlson-Life:Carlson was born in Logan, Utah, and grew up in Salt Lake City. He received a masters degree in English from the University of Utah. He then taught at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he began his first novel....
) - Madame Zelena Finally Comes Clean (Ron CarlsonRon Carlson-Life:Carlson was born in Logan, Utah, and grew up in Salt Lake City. He received a masters degree in English from the University of Utah. He then taught at The Hotchkiss School in Connecticut, where he began his first novel....
) - Lone Deer (Donald Wollner)
- Splitsville (Richard Dresser)
- Beyond Bloomingdale's (Diane Heles and Janet Reed)
- Florida Girls (Nancy Fitz-Hasty)
- Heavy Breathing (Scott Carter)
- Free Fall (Laura HarringtonLaura HarringtonLaura Harrington is an American actress.Harrington is perhaps best known for her role as the main character's sister in the 1993 film What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Her character was aged around 20 though the actress herself was 35 at the time...
) - Hidden Parts (Lynne Alvarez)
- Late One Afternoon in Okabena (Marjorie Mahle)
- In September Woods (David HillDavid Hill-Politicians:* David B. Hill , Governor of the U.S. state of New York, 1885–1891, U.S. Senator from New York, 1892–1897* David Jayne Hill , politician from New York, United States Assistant Secretary of State, 1898–1903...
) - Bertrano or Hats Don't Lie (Charlie Peters)