Meet the Playwrights
Deborah Brevoort is the author of numerous plays and musicals, including
The Women of Lockerbie;
Blue Moon Over Memphis, a Noh drama about Elvis Presley;
The Poetry of Pizza; The Blue-Sky Boys;
Into the Fire; and
Signs of Life. She is a two-time winner of the Frederick Loewe Award for
Musical Theatre, first for
King Island Christmas, an oratorio written with composer David Friedman,
and then for
Coyote Goes Salmon Fishing, with composer Scott Richards. Her work has been published
by Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, Applause Books, and others. Brevoort was one of the original
company members with Perseverance Theatre in Alaska.
Erin Browne's
A Meth Play was the recipient of the 2008 International Student Playscript Award at
NSDF and was a finalist for the BBC Worldservice International Playwriting Competition.
Lucky in Love has
played at Columbia as part of the Torture Project, at Adelphi University, at the Brecht forum through Brooklyn
Playwrights Collective, and in Spork Fest.
Could was in Sticky: Bowery Poetry Club, and
God Exits
was in Sticky: Galapagos.
The Blahs and
A Party Story were in Gone in 60 Seconds, Harrogate Theatre.
30 Patriot Actors: Playing Real People was in ColumbiaŐs Patriot Project and was in Poliglot Theater's
Riot Act.
Not As of Yet received a reading at the Abingdon Theater.
Hence was read at The Flea.
Browne has been working on
Trying and
Narrator 1. She is a graduate of NYU: Tisch School of the
Arts and earned an MFA from Columbia University. Browne works in television and education.
Erin Courtney is a playwright and visual artist living in Brooklyn. Recently her play
Quiver and
Twitch was produced by New York Stage and Film at Vassar and
Alice the Magnet was produced by
Clubbed Thumb at the Ohio. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell colony, a recipient of a NYSCA grant and
a MAP Fund grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, and a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. Her
play
Demon Baby is in the anthology
New Downtown Now edited by Mac Wellman and Young Jean Lee
and published by University of Minnesota Press. As a graduate student she studied with Mac Wellman at
Brooklyn College. She currently teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College and is an affiliated artist with
Clubbed Thumb. She is also a member of 13P, as well as the co-founder of the Brooklyn Writer's Space.
Lawrence DuKore began his career with the Richard Pryor film
Greased Lightning. His television
play
A Mistaken Charity (PBS/American Playhouse) was nominated for a Writers Guild of America best
dramatic writing award. As a book writer, DuKore wrote
The Emperor of My Baby's Heart and
Scream!
(each with songs by Mark Barkan and presented at the Riverside Church Theatre in NYC). As a lyricist, he
wrote with the late Danny Hurd. DuKore has written for daytime TV serials and for Saturday morning television,
and has published several novels. He is a member of The Workshop Theatre Company, the Actors Studio
Playwrights/Directors Unit, and the HB Studios Professional Playwrights Unit. His plays, produced regionally
and off-Broadway, include
Exploding the Swan,
Spinsters, and
The Day That Brando Died.
He is the recipient of many awards including several from American Globe Theatre and the Heideman at Actors
Theatre of Louisville.
Stephanie Fleischmann is a core member of the Playwrights Center and an alumnus of New Dramatists.
Grants/Awards/Fellowships/Residencies: Whitfield Cook Award (
Eloise & Ray); Joe Callaway Award;
Frederick Loewe Award (
The Hotel Carter, music by Jenny Giering), Pew Charitable Trust Philadelphia
Theatre Initiative Project Grant (
The Street of Useful Things, dramaturg Lynn M. Thomson); two NYFA
fellowships; N.E.A. Opera/Music-Theater (
Far Sea Pharisee, music by Miki Navazio); Tennessee Williams
fellow in playwriting, Sewanee, University of the South; MacDowell; Hedgebrook; Mabou Mines/
Suite;
and HARP (current). Her plays have been produced/developed at venues across the U.S. and published by
Playscripts.com;
Play, a Journal of Plays; Smith & Krauss; and others. She has collaborated with
numerous composers, including Olga Neuwirth. She currently teaches at Bard and Skidmore. MFA: Brooklyn
College, where she studied with Mac Wellman.
P.J. Gibson holds an M.F.A. degree from Brandeis University, studying under a Shubert Fellowship.
Published and widely produced, she has penned over thirty plays, many works of fiction and poetry. Recent
publications:
Destiny's Daughters: 9 Voices of P.J. Gibson compilation (1st Books Library Publisher),
and several plays and pieces of short fiction in the Alexander Street Press Collections. She has been the
recipient of the Audelco
VIV Pioneer Award, the National Black Theatre Festival's
August Wilson
Playwright Award, the Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts Seventh Annual "Walk of Fame," and a number
of fellowships, grants, awards, and seven commissions. Gibson is a Full Professor of English at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice in New York.
C.S. Hanson's play
Falutin, developed thanks
to a commission from America-in-Play, is a Heideman finalist at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Her plays
have been produced at Theatre for the New City, Metropolitan Playhouse, 3Graces, Manhattan Theatre Source,
Samuel French Festival, Around The Block/
Al Doblar La Esquina, American Globe/Turnip Theatre, Pittsburgh
New Works, Little Theatre of Rockville, and Muse of Fire. HansonŐs plays have been developed at Ensemble
Studio Theatre, Abingdon Theater, LaMaMa, New Jersey Rep, The Barrow Group, Naked Angels (Tuesdays@9),
Living Image Arts, and FirstStage/L.A. Awards/honors from Actors Theatre of Louisville (two-time Heideman
finalist), Drury University, Scriptapalooza, Moondance Film Festival, Moving Arts - LA, PlayLabs Festival,
Stage 3 Theatre Festival, and EST (Marathon finalist). Member, Dramatists Guild of America.
Les Hunter's work has been performed at Bates College, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Theater for
a New City, Galapagos, Siberia, Impact Theater, Bowery Poetry Club, Macalester College, Collective:Unconscious,
and Brooklyn College. Hunter has been a staff writer for offoffonline.com,
The Stony Brook Statesman, Serf
City, and The Loop. He is the recipient of the 2007 Foundation for Jewish Culture New Play Development Grant
for
To the Orchard. Hunter earned an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Boston University and an M.A. in English
Education from Brooklyn College. He is currently working on a Ph.D. in English at Stony Brook University.
He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Brooklyn Playwrights' Collective, and America-in-Play.
Jenny Levison is a playwright, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker whose works have been performed
and screened in Boston; Washington, D.C.; Portland, Oregon; Philadelphia; Las Vegas; New Jersey; and New York.
Her plays include
The Scams of Scapin,
Home Field Advantage,
Shtil, Mayn Corazon-A Yiddish
Tango Cabaret,
Countdown Bikini,
Don't Kiss Me,
I'm In Training,
See the Light,
and
Dia de los Muertos. Levison holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Religion from Bates College, and an
M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from NYU, where she now teaches. She's been an immigrant rights labor organizer,
a carpenter, a cook, a family planning counselor, a lead singer, and a movie projectionist. Before all that,
she grew up in New England, skating on the frog pond and eating pie for breakfast.
Quincy Long's NY theatre credits include
People be Heard, Playwrights Horizons;
The Joy of
Going Somewhere Definite,
Shaker Heights, and
The Virgin Molly, The Atlantic;
The Year
of the Baby and
Yokohama Duty, Soho Rep;
The Johnstown Vindicator, The Harold Clurman;
Something About Baseball, Ensemble Studio Theatre. Regional credits include
The Lively Lad,
Actors Theatre of Louisville and New York Stage and Film;
The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite, Mark
Taper Forum, Magic Theatre, and others;
The Virgin Molly, Berkeley Rep. Awards: Kennedy Center Fund
for New American Plays; ASCAP/Cole Porter Prize for Playwriting; Finalist, Outer Circle Drama Critics Award,
Kesselring Prize. Projects slated for 2007:
The Only Child at South Coast Rep, and
Horse Opera,
commissioned by The Woolly Mammoth Theatre and The Empty Space. Long is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama
and a member of New Dramatists, E.S.T., and the Playwrights Unit at the Actors Studio.
David Myers' 1800 Acres was developed with Old Vic New Voices and The Lark Play Development Center and
was produced in 2008 at Riverside Studios in London. New York development includes his two plays
Babyhead and
Chosen, both read at the Paper Beats Rock reading series, and his
Deleted Scenes from the Love of John Smith
and Pocahontas, read at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center. Myers studied under playwrights Edward Albee, Nilo
Cruz, and Ntozake Shange, and in the Young Writers' Programme at The Royal Court Theatre. He is from Houston,
Texas, where his play
Shatterings was produced at Theatre Collide, his
No Man's Land,
Greenland
at Infernal Bridegroom's Axiom Theatre, and his
A String of Breath at the EZ Credit Theater. Myers has also
traveled to rural Rwanda, where he developed plays with Rwandan youth to fight the spread and stigma associated with
HIV/AIDS. He is a graduate of Brown University.
www.swimdavid.com
Dominic Taylor is a writer, director, and professor of playwriting. His plays have been developed by
Ensemble Studio Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Hartford Stage, New York Theatre Workshop,
The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, The African Continuum Theatre, and The Kennedy
Center, among others. Published plays include
Personal History,
Wedding Dance, and
UpCity
Service(s). Taylor directed the cantata
Negroes Burial Ground (libretto by Ann Greene, music by
Leroy Jenkins) at The Kitchen, and the parody
Uppa Creek (by Keli Garrett) at Dixon Place. He is a
member playwright as well as a board member of New Dramatists, and a Usual Suspect with NY Theatre Workshop.
Taylor was previously an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Bard College. He is now Associate Artistic Director
of Penumbra Theatre and an Assistant Professor in Directing at the University of Minnesota.
Susan Tenneriello's plays include
Banana and Booh in Security, America-in-Play commission, 2007 Spring
Festival at Tribeca Performing Arts Center;
Tick Tock, Paper Beats Rock series;
He Who Makes Water,
Each to Each,
What If You Never Saw the Moon Again? and
Grave Matter. This season her work
will be presented at the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, NYU. She writes extensively on theater, dance, and visual
art, pursuing interdisciplinary work in cultural aesthetics. Recent publications include "The Industry of Spectacle
Entertainment: Imre Kiralfy's Grand Dramatic Historical Productions of
The Fall of Babylon and
Nero, or
the Destruction of Rome in Staten Island,
Journal of American Drama and Theatre 19:3 (Fall 2007). Her
performance criticism appears in
Theatre Journal,
Women and Performance,
Slavic and East European
Performance, and
PSA,
The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America. She is Assistant Professor
in the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Baruch College.
Anne Washburn's produced plays include:
Apparition (Chashama, Connelly),
The Communist Dracula Pageant
(Soho Rep; A.R.T. Cambridge),
The Ladies (Cherry Lane, Civilians, Dixon Place),
I Have Loved Strangers
(Williamstown LeapFrog project; Clubbed Thumb),
The Internationalist (13P, Vineyard Theatre NYC, Gate Theatre
London, Studio Theatre DC), and a translation of Euripides'
Orestes. Her work has been published in American
Theater Magazine, in New Downtown Now, (ed. Young Jean Lee and Mac Wellman), in New York Theater Review (ed. Brook
Stowe), and by Oberon Books. Currently under commission by the Civilians, Soho Rep, and Yale Rep. She is an associated
artist with 13P, The Civilians, and New Georges, and a member of New Dramatists.
Gary Winter's play
At Said was performed at P.S. 122 in May 2006. He is a member of the Obie
Award-winning 13P. His other plays have been seen or heard at HERE, The Flea, Brick, Playwrights Horizons,
Long Wharf, NYU, Little Theater, Geva, Relentless Theater, The Cherry Lane Alternative, and Ensemble Studio
Theatre.
