It was produced by Playwrights Horizons with book by John Jiler, music and lyrics by Ray Leslee.

For example, Playwrights Horizons produced only six plays in the 2002-03 seasons, compared with thirty-one in 1973-74.

Playwrights dealt with the natural limitation on their productivity by combining into teams of two, three, four, and even five to generate play texts ; the majority of plays written in this era were collaborations, and the solo artists who generally eschewed collaborative efforts, like Jonson and Shakespeare, were the exceptions to the rule.

In his early theater days, he performed with the Colonnades Theater Lab, Eugene O ' Neill Theater Center, and, along with his wife Rhea Perlman, appeared in plays produced by the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective.

Shepherd turned to director Paul Sills to head this venture based on his experience working with Sills on an earlier Chicago theatre effort, the Playwrights ' Theatre Company.

* Steven Berkoff in The Playwrights Database at Doolee. com, with helpful description about many of Berkoff's plays, and details of unperformed plays.

Harryman has received grants and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Fund for Poetry, Opera America Next Stage Grant ( with composer Erling Wold ), Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and the NEA Consortium Playwrights Commission, among others.

The Guild has a reciprocal membership and services arrangement with the Irish Playwrights and Screenwriters Guild.

Manganiello worked with the noted playwright and director Leonard Foglia at creating his role in 2008 at the Ojai Playwrights Conference.

Partnerships with Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, Guthrie Theatre, Playwrights Center, the Public Theatre, Seattle Rep, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and the Yale Repertory Theatre ensure that the plays will reach beyond their original OSF audience.

* A Search for a Postmodern Theater: Interviews with Contemporary Playwrights

Franklin has appeared in nearly a dozen staged readings with Classic and Contemporary American Playwrights ( CCAP ) in the Los Angeles area for the last several years.

* Finding aid for the Roberta Uno Asian American Women Playwrights Scripts Collection, 1924 – 2002, featuring Mango Tango ( 1978 ), Where the Mississippi Meets the Amazon ( with Ntozake Shange and Thulani Davis ) ( 1978 ), Holy Food ( 1988 ), and Airport Music ( with Han Ong ( 1993 ) at the Special Collections and University Archives, W. E. B.

Playwrights Horizons ' auxiliary programs include the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, which is affiliated with NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and Ticket Central, a central box office that supports the off-Broadway performing arts community.

In its 39 years, Playwrights Horizons has worked with over 375 writers and is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.

After leaving Cornell, Phillips began his show business career performing in Broadway and off-Broadway plays – at many different theatres, including the Direct Theatre where he won the Best of the Actors ’ Festival in 1977, the Wonderhorse Theatre in the premier of Christopher Durang ’ s The Nature and Purpose of the Universe, with Ellen Greene, and at Playwrights Horizons in a revival of Eccentricities of a Nightingale ( Tennessee Williams helped shape the production, and ended up writing a new monologue for Phillips, which Williams personally dictated to Phillips on tech day when it was realized the leading lady, Jill Eikenberry, needed more time for a dress change ).

Phillips performed in many plays in New York over the next fifteen years, including Terrence McNally ’ s Lips Together, Teeth Apart for Manhattan Theatre Club ( at the Lucille Lortel Theatre ), Measure for Measure with Kevin Kline for the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Delacorte Theater, the premier of the musical My Favorite Year at Lincoln Center, with Tim Curry and Andrea Martin, as well as revivals and new plays at theatres like the Hudson Guild Theatre, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the American Jewish Theatre, Chelsea Theatre Center, and again at Playwrights Horizons.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Conley was employed with the travelling theater group the Chicago Uptown Circuit Players and Playwrights Company.

It was first produced at New York University by Playwrights Horizons Theatre School on December 3, 1991, directed by Edward Elefterion, with Katie Bainbridge as the title role.

He appeared Off-Broadway in Burnt Piano for HB Playwrights Theatre and with Uta Hagen in a television adaptation of Norman Corwin's The World of Carl Sandburg.

of Theatre & Drama, Cardinal Stage Company, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, and Theatre of the People.

The winner of the 2003 Samuel French Playwrights Competition, the play was then published by Samuel French Inc. Its world premiere, directed by Argall, was 23-26 April 2003 in the Cyril Clark Library Theatre, presented by Training Wheel Productions.

He subsequently appeared in the Blank Theatre ’ s annual Young Playwrights Festival and its productions of The SantaLand Diaries ( November 20-December 20, 2009 ),< ref > and Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them.

Her other theatrical roles include leads at the Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theater Club, Playwrights Horizons and many regional theaters including the Long Wharf, Yale Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, the Mark Taper Forum and the Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Between 1925 and 1927, Dos Passos wrote plays as well as created posters and set designs for the New Playwrights Theatre in New York City.

Turturro created the title role of John Patrick Shanley's Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at the Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O ' Neill Theatre Center in 1983.

In 1965, Lawrence and Lee founded the American Playwrights ' Theatre, a plan to bypass the commerciality of the Broadway stage, which foreshadowed the professional regional theatre movement.

Their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, was produced through the American Playwrights Theatre, and premiered at Lawrence's alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned their play on the life and times of James Thurber, Jabberwock ( 1972 ).

In 1965, they founded the American Playwrights ' Theatre, a plan to bypass the commerciality of the Broadway stage, which foreshadowed the professional regional theatre movement.

Their wildly successful play, The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, was produced through the American Playwrights Theatre, and premiered at Lawrence's alma mater, Ohio State University, which also commissioned their play on the life and times of James Thurber, Jabberwock ( 1972 ).

" Brooklyn Boy " also began life at the Pacific Playwrights Festival, in 2003, and was produced at South Coast Repertory, on Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club at the Biltmore Theatre, and in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Élysées.

Ten productions are offered to the public each season as part of The Theatre School Showcase, Chicago Playworks ( the city's oldest continuously operating children's theater ), New Directors Series, or New Playwrights Series.

In 1950, May attended the University of Chicago and Playwrights Theatre in Chicago.

The play premiered on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on September 30, 1953 in a production by The Playwrights ' Company, directed by Elia Kazan and designed by Jo Mielziner.

She is currently a member of the Playwrights Kitchen Ensemble at the Coronet Theatre in Los Angeles.

Playwrights who have premiered their work here include Morwyn Brebner, David French, Michael Healey, Joan MacLeod, Morris Panych, James Reaney, Jason Sherman and Judith Thompson.

Playwrights who worked in the late 19th and early 20th century whose thought and work would serve as an influence on the aesthetic of postmodernism include Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, the Italian author Luigi Pirandello, and the German playwright and theorist Bertolt Brecht.

Among his theatrical credits include stints at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Playwrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop in New York City.

Past New York productions of her work include Mauritius on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre in a Manhattan Theater Club Production ; The Scene, The Water ’ s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels at Second Stage Theatre ; Bad Dates and The Butterfly Collection at Playwrights Horizons ; and View of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop.

Playwrights whose work has premiered at Griffin include:

Ethan has been a member of Robert Redford's organization, The Sundance Playwrights Conference, in Utah, for six summers, where he developed his play Penguin Blues, which is published by Samuel French Inc. and is included in The Best Short Plays of 1989 ( Applause, ed.

The play was recently chosen to be included in publisher Smith & Kraus ' New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2009, available from Amazon and Samuel French Booksellers.