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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 recent and upcoming productions include Lucky in Love at Adelphi and Columbia
University, After at Chapman and Columbia, God Exits at Galapagos: Sticky, and The Blahs
at the Harrogate. Recent readings include Menders at Rattlestick Playwright's Theater through 4Threads,
Not As of Yet at the Abingdon, Again at the Abingdon through Brooklyn College, and A Meth
Play at Columbia. She has attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (Playwrights Horizons Theater School)
and is currently attending Columbia University's School of the Arts. Browne's poetry has been published in
Boheme, Chiricu, Jugendstil(005), Northern Stars, and at www.beekiller.net. She has written theatre
reviews for Propaganda! and GO NYC.
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 plays include Answers (American Globe/Turnip Theatre Festival); The Sabbatical
(Pittsburgh New Works), and Becoming Becoming (Muse of Fire). Hanson's work has been developed at
Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Jersey Rep, The Barrow Group, Around The Block/Al Doblar La Esquina, Polaris
North, and FirstStage/L.A. Awards include Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman finalist for Extremes,
numerous honors for The Leak, and Scriptapalooza award for Everybody Loves Raymond spec script.
New material has been read at Naked Angels' Tuesdays@9.
Les Hunter is a playwright concurrently enrolled as a Ph.D. student in English at SUNY Stony Brook and
at an M.F.A. program in playwriting at Boston University. His play Antonin Artaud: A Dream Play was
produced by the Brooklyn Playwrights Collective in its Spring Festival. He is currently working on a new
full-length, To the Orchard, which was workshopped at the "Building Bridges" Festival at Brooklyn
College. Hunter also writes theater reviews for offoffonline.com.
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.
Ruth Margraff is writing her fourth Rockefeller Foundation commission in new opera with Fred Ho for the
Apollo Theater, a 2006 McKnight National residency/commission with the Playwrights' Center, and a Fulbright
award to Greece. Her plays have been developed and produced nationally and in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Russia,
Czech Rep., Hungary, Romania, Greece, Turkey, India, Great Britain, and Canada and by Hourglass/Century, BAM
Next Wave, CAMI, HERE, Public, Cooper Union, Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, NYTW, Guggenheim Museum, and other
NYC venues. She has been published in American Theatre, Theater Forum, Kendall Hunt, Backstage Books, Johns
Hopkins, Conjunctions/Bard, Kendall/Hunt, Watson Gutpill/Backstage Books, among others. Margraff has taught
playwriting at UT/Michener Center, Brown, Yale School of Drama, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and
University of Athens. She is an alumnus of New Dramatists and an associate member of Theater Without Borders.
David Myers is the author of the plays 1800 Acres, A String of Breath, Shatterings,
and No Man's Land Greenland, which have received readings and/or productions at The Houston Foundry,
The Axiom Theater, EZ Credit Theater, and The Lark Play Development Center. Myers recently returned from Rwanda
where he helped develop Mumugi Watchu, a play designed to stimulate discussion on AIDS prevention and
sexual health. Formerly the literary associate at The Public Theater, he is currently the national coordinator
for Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 Days / 365 Plays Festival. A graduate of Brown University, Myers is currently working
on a play about the religious figure Abraham.
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 has written numerous plays and is delighted to be part of America-in-Play. Favorite
works include He Who Makes Water; Oh, Miss; Each to Each; Tick Tock; What If
You Never Saw the Moon Again?; and Grave Matter. She writes extensively on theater, dance, and
visual art, pursuing interdisciplinary work in cultural aesthetics. Recent studies include the laboring
body in Edgar Degas's ballet images and eighteenth-century traditions of farce and allegory in comic opera.
Currently, she is examining the roots of American cultural attitudes in mass entertainment and spectacle
production. She received a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center and teaches in the Theater Department at
Brooklyn College.
Anne Washburn's plays include Apparition, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist
, and The Ladies. Her work has been produced or developed by 13P, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Cherry
Lane Theater, The Civilians, Dixon Place, New York Theater Workshop, The Public, Soho Rep, Vineyard Theatre,
and the Williamstown Theater Festival. Her work is published in New Downtown Now, edited by Mac Wellman
and Young Jean Lee and published by University of Minnesota Press, and in the upcoming New York Theater
Review edited by Brook Stowe. She is an associated artist with 13P, The Civilians, and New Georges, and a
member of New Dramatists. She founded the Pataphysics Playwriting Workshops at the Flea Theater NYC.
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.
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