the playwrights
- sheila callaghan (P#7)
- Ms. Callaghan's plays have been produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, and Moving Arts, among others. Sheila is the recipient of a 2000 Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a 2001 LA Weekly Award for Best One-act, a 2001-02 Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright's Center in Minneapolis, a 2002 Chesley Prize for Lesbian Playwriting, a 2003 Mac Dowell Residency, a 2004 NYFA grant, a 2005 Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellow, a 2007 NYSCA grant, the 2007 Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious 2007 Whiting Award. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Norway, Germany, and the Czech Republic. She has been commissioned by Playwright's Horizons, South Coast Repertory, and EST/Sloan. Her full-length plays include SCAB, CRAWL FADE TO WHITE, CRUMBLE (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), WE ARE NOT THESE HANDS, DEAD CITY, LASCIVIOUS SOMETHING, KATE CRACKERNUTS, THAT PRETTY PRETTY; OR, THE RAPE PLAY, and FEVER/DREAM. Several of her plays are published by Playscripts.com and Samuel French, and her monologues can be found in various anthologies. She has taught playwriting at The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, and Florida State University, and she is currently on the faculty at Spalding University's MFA program in creative writing. Sheila is a resident of New Dramatists.
- erin courtney (P#13)
- Ms. Courtney's plays have been produced or developed by Clubbed Thumb (ALICE THE MAGNET, DEMON BABY, PRICKED, SUMMER PLAY, DOWNWINDERS). The Public Theater and Birmingham Repertory (DEMON BABY), The Vineyard (ALICE THE MAGNET), The Flea (MOTHER'S COUCH), The Actors Theater of Louisville (OWLS), Her play QUIVER AND TWITCH was developed in the Soho Rep writers/directors lab, had a workshop at New York Stage Film and is currently being developed at the Vineyard Theater. Her latest play BLACK CAT LOST is a commission from Soho Rep. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell colony, a recipient of a NYSCA grant and a MAP Fund grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Her play OWLS is published by Smith and Kraus in Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays and DEMON BABY is published in two anthologies New Downtown Now and Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb. As an undergraduate, Ms. Courtney studied with Paula Vogel at Brown University and 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 the co-founder of the Brooklyn Writer's Space and Room 58.
- madeleine george (P#10)
- Ms. George's plays have been developed or staged at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Soho Rep, Clubbed Thumb, New York Theatre Workshop, The Playwrights' Center/Guthrie Theater, Rude Mechanicals, Playwrights Horizons, and the Public Theater, among other places. She collaborated with LightBox on the multimedia play MILK-N-HONEY, about democracy and appetite in America, which ran at 3LD in the fall of 2007. Support includes a MacDowell Fellowship, the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, a Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship, and the Jane Chambers Award. Madeleine was a member of the 2007-2008 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab and holds an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU. During the day she is the director of the Bard College satellite campus at Bayview Correctional Facility for Women in Manhattan.
- rob handel (P#3)
- Rob Handel is managing director of 13P and heads the dramatic writing program at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama. His play Millicent Scowlworthy was developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference and produced in New York at SPF, for which he was awarded a residency at the Donmar Warehouse in London. APHRODISIAC was developed at the Public Theater “New Work Now” Festival and produced in New York by 13P. Aphrodisiac was subsequently produced by Long Wharf Theater (New Haven), Theater Ninjas (Cleveland), and Curious Theatre Company (Denver). The Knights (after Aristophanes) was produced by Target Margin Theater. Staged readings include Soho Rep and the Royal Court Theatre. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, he taught at The New School, Purchase College, the University of Montevallo, Cleveland State University, and the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Rob received a 2007 Helen Merrill Award, earned degrees from Williams and Brown, and hails from Poughkeepsie, New York.
- ann marie healy (P#6)
- Ms. Healy's play WHAT ONCE WE FELT is currently a finalist for the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a recent finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. It will receive its world premiere this spring at About Face Theater in Chicago (directed by Ken Rus Schmoll). Her play THE LEGEND OF MINNIE WILLET was developed at the National Playwrights' Conference (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center) last summer. HAVE YOU SEEN STEVE STEVEN was developed at the Sundance Theater Institute in the summer of 2007 and subsequently produced by 13P, the Obie-award winning collective, directed by Anne Kauffman. (TimeOut NY and FlavorPill picks). THE NIGHT THAT ROGER WENT TO VISIT THE PARENTS OF HIS OLD HIGH SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND premiered in the 2006 EST Marathon of One-Acts plays (directed by Andrew McCarthy). NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A STORM was the recipient of a development fellowship with MCC Theater (directed by Jo Bonney), and produced by Edge Theater Company in 2004, directed by Carolyn Cantor and featuring Marylouise Burke (TimeOut NY picks). DEAREST EUGENIA HAGGIS was developed at LAByrinth Theater's 2004 summer intensive and The Cape Cod Theater Project and published in the anthology: Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays by Clubbed Thumb. Ann Marie's plays are published through Samuel French, Smith & Kraus, Playscripts and The Kenyon Review. She is an affiliated artist with the OBIE-Award winning theater company Clubbed Thumb, a member of MCC's Playwrights' Coalition, a former member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a former member of EST's Youngblood and a writing fellow at New River Dramatists. Ann Marie was awarded a 2006/07 Sloan Commission for her new play exploring the life and work of evolutionary biologist Robert Trivers. She also received a NYSCA commissioning grant for her new play with Clubbed Thumb: THE GENTLEMAN CALLER. She recently completed her MFA with Paula Vogel and Bonnie Metzgar at Brown University.
- julia jarcho (P#9)
- Ms. Jarcho is a writer, director, and performer. Shows written and either directed or co-created include TAKE ME AWAY (Festival Il faut brûler pour briller, Paris, and ADA Berlin, 2007), ALL I DO IS DREAM OF YOU (Sophiensaele and English Theatre Berlin, 2006), DELMAR (Prenzlkasper, Berlin, 2005), THE HIGHWAYMAN (NTUSA performance space, Brooklyn, 2004; published in The Best American Short Plays 2005-2006). Other productions include A SMALL HOLE (Performance Lab 115, directed by Alice Reagan, Fringe NYC 2006) and NURSERY (Young Playwrights Festival, Cherry Lane, 2001). As a performer, she has worked with Richard Maxwell, Aaron Landsman, Tory Vazquez, and Fox/Yarden. She is a 2008-2009 Resident Playwright at the Playwrights' Foundation (San Francisco) and a board member of Young Playwrights Inc. She was a writer-in-residence at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in 2002 and won a Berrilla Kerr award the same year. Her play AMERICAN TREASURE will be produced by 13P in Fall 2009 with the support of Creative Capital.
- young jean lee (P#12)
- Ms. Lee has directed her plays at the Public Theater (CHURCH), The Kitchen (THE SHIPMENT), P.S. 122 (CHURCH; PULLMAN, WA), HERE Arts Center (SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN), Soho Rep (THE APPEAL), and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater (GROUNDWORK OF THE METAPHYSIC OF MORALS). She has worked with Radiohole and the National Theater of the United States of America. She is a member of New Dramatists and 13P, has done residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and has an MFA from Mac Wellman's playwriting program at Brooklyn College. Her plays have been published in New Downtown Now, an anthology edited by Mac Wellman and herself, in Three Plays by Young Jean Lee (Samuel French), American Theatre Magazine (September 2007), and will soon be published in a collection of all of her plays entitled Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven and Other Plays (Theatre Communications Group). She is the recipient of grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Rockefeller MAP Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Her work has been invited to tour to venues in Vienna, Hannover, Berlin, Zurich, Brussels, Bergen, Oslo, Trondheim, Rotterdam, Salamanca, Toulouse, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Minneapolis. She will direct her adaptation of KING LEAR at Soho Rep in January 2010, and has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons and Lincoln Center Theater. She is the artistic director of Young Jean Lee's Theater Company and is the recipient of the ZKBPatronage Prize 2007 of the Zuercher Theater Spektakel and a 2007 Emerging Playwright OBIE Award.
- winter miller (P#2)
- Ms. Miller's plays include: IN DARFUR, THE PENETRATION PLAY, SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH AMANDINE, CONSPICUOUS, CAKE AND ICE CREAM, and GREETINGS FROM VIETNAM WISH YOU WERE HERE. IN DARFUR won the 2006 Guthrie Theater and Playwrights' Center's Two-Headed Challenge and was developed at the Guthrie, Playlabs, Geva and The Public. The Public's workshop production sold out and returned for a performance at their 1800-seat Delacorte, the first play there by a woman. Winter traveled to war-torn northern Uganda to write plays with displaced youth with the group Voices of Uganda, part of a documentary of the same name. www.voicesofuganda.org. In affiliation with The 52nd Street Project, Keen Company, and Stella Adler Studio, she writes plays with and for teens. Her plays have been seen and heard in London, Uganda and Canada and have been produced and/or developed by: The Donmar, 13P, Horizon, Tricycle, The New Group, Rattlestick, Theatreworks, Synapse, New Georges, Hourglass Group, Theater Awakening, Here and DR2. THE PENETRATION PLAY is published by Playscripts, excerpted in Smith & Kraus' 2005 Best Stage Scenes and Best Monologues. Her monologue MOTHER TO SON is published in Eve Ensler's A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer (Random House), and Applause's anthology Best Women's Monologues of the Millennium. CONSPICUOUS is published by Playscripts. Winter writes for The New York Times Arts, Metro, and Style sections, and covered the Indie film beat for Variety. She is unable to hold down a regular blog. A graduate of Smith College, she holds an MFA from Columbia University. www.wintermiller.net.
- sarah ruhl (P#11)
- Ms. Ruhl's plays include THE CLEAN HOUSE (Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005; The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2004); PASSION PLAY, A CYCLE (The Fourth Freedom Forum Playwriting Award from The Kennedy Center, a Helen Hayes Awards nomination for Best New Play); DEAD MAN'S CELL PHONE; MELANCHOLY PLAY; EURYDICE; ORLANDO; and LATE: A COWBOY SONG. Her plays have been produced at Lincoln Center Theater, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, South Coast Rep., Yale Rep., Berkeley Rep., The Wilma Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Madison Rep. and the Piven Theatre, among others. Her plays have also been produced in London, Germany, Australia, Canada and Israel, and have been translated into Polish, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, Korean and German. Originally from Chicago, Ms. Ruhl received her M.F.A. from Brown University where she studied with Paula Vogel. In 2003, she was the recipient of the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award and the Whiting Writers' Award. She is a member of New Dramatists and recently won the MacArthur Fellowship.
- katherine ryan (P#5)
- Ms. Ryan's full-length plays (some under the name Kate E. Ryan) include DESIGN YOUR KITCHEN,
MARK SMITH, WATER WORKS and an adaptation of Sophocles' WOMEN OF TRACHIS. Her work has been developed or produced by 13P, Annex Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, the Drama League, the Flea Theater, the Ontological, Soho Rep, Target Margin, The Vineyard Theatre and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. Katherine is current Co-Chair of Soho Rep's Writer-Director Lab and is former Co-Curator of the OBIE-winning performance series Little Theatre at Tonic. Projects in development include DOT, an episodic play set in a Florida housing development (with director Anne Kauffman and composer Mike Iveson), and HIM, a play about fishermen. MFA from Brooklyn College, where she studied under Mac Wellman.
- lucy thurber (P#8)
- Ms. Thurber is the author of seven plays: WHERE WE'RE BORN, ASHVILLE, SCARCITY, KILLERS AND OTHER FAMILY, STAY, BOTTOM OF THE WORLD and MONSTROSITY. The Atlantic Theater Company opened its 2007/08 season with SCARCITY. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has produced three of her plays, WHERE WE'RE BORN, KILLERS AND OTHER FAMILY and STAY, BOTTOM OF THE WORLD was commissioned and workshopped by Women's Expressive Theater, Inc. at the Eugene O'Neill, the first Tribeca Theater Festival and The Public Theater. MONSTROSITY was workshopped at Encore Theatre Company (San Francisco). She was the recipient of the 2000-01 Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship and has been a guest artist at Alaska's Perseverance Theatre twice, where she helped to adapt both Desire Under The Elms and Moby Dick. She has had reading and workshops at Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Group, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, Encore Theatre Company, PlayPenn, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New River Dramatists and Soho Rep. She was one of three playwrights in residence at The Orchard Project, summer 2007. Her 10-minute play DINNER is published in Not So Sweet, a collection of plays from Soho Rep's 10-Minute Play Festival. SCARCITY was published in the December 2007 issue of American Theatre. Her produced plays are published by Dramatists Play Service. Thurber is a member of New Dramatists, MCC Playwrights Coalition and Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages. She is currently writing a new play under commission from Playwrights Horizons. She is the recipient of the 1st Gary Bonasorte Memorial Prize for Playwrighting 2008.
- anne washburn (P#1)
- Ms. Washburn's work has been produced by 13P, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, London's Gate Theatre, NYC's Soho Rep, DC's Studio Theater, and NYC's The Vineyard Theater. Her work has been published in American Theater; in New Downtown Now, (ed. Young Jean Lee and Mac Wellman); New York Theater Review, (ed. Brook Stowe), and Yale's Theatre Magazine. Full length plays include APPARITION, THE COMMUNIST DRACULA PAGEANT, I HAVE LOVED STRANGERS, THE LADIES, THE INTERNATIONALIST, LITTLE BUNNY FOO FOO, and an adaptation of Euripides' ORESTES. She has been commissioned by the Civilians, Soho Rep, Wiliamstown Theatre Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre. She is an associated artist with The Civilians and New Georges, and a member of New Dramatists.
- gary winter (P#4)
- Mr. Winter's plays include COOLER (defunkt theater); AT SAID (PS 122-13P production #4); GOLEM and DEAD RECKONING (Cherry Lane Alternative); EXECUTION OF A REINDEER and THE IMPOTENT GENERAL (Brick Theater); OMINOUS BASTARD OF CZSHERPISHNEK (HERE); THE LAKE and AENEAS (The Flea); JIGSAW NATION (South Coast Rep, Curious Theater Co. and 2005 New York Fringe Festival, with Relentless Theatre Co.). CENTRIFUGAL FORCE received readings at Playwrights Horizons and Geva Theater. CENTRIFUGAL FORCE was also a runner up for the 2002 Princess Grace Awards. His ten-minute play, THE WHITE ROOM, was a finalist for ATL's 2008 Heideman Award. AT SAID received a workshop in March 2005 at the Long Wharf Theatre. His play COOLER was workshopped at NYU in fall 2006 as part of their First Look @ New Plays series. He recently completed the libretto CARNIVAL OF SOULS for composer Jonathan Newman. From 1984-1989 he directed the Scott & Gary Show for cable television, which featured experimental bands performing before a live audience. In 2008 the program was acquired by NYU's Fales Library Special Collections. Recipient of The Goldberg Award, Lark Theater Fellow, Dramatists Guild Fellow, Dasha-Epstein Fellow, John Golden Award, and support from MacDowell Colony and YADDO. Awarded a Spielberg Foundation Righteous Persons Fellowship to study Eastern European Jewry in Krakow. Gary occasionally reviews plays for the Brooklyn Rail. MFA-NYU.
