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DAVID ADJMI (1973 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency NY UK and Europe agent Curtis Brown Group Ltd |
David Adjmi is the author of Stunning (LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company), The Evildoers (Sundance, Yale Repertory Theatre), Caligula (Soho Rep Studio Series), and Strange Attractors (Empty Space). His play, 3C, will receive its world premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in June 2012. Elective Affinities, which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company, will receive a U.S. premiere this December at Soho Rep (co-production with Rising Phoenix Rep/Piece by Piece Productions.) Marie Antoinette, which was developed at Sundance and Goodman Theatre, will receive a world premiere in a co-production with A.R.T. and Yale Rep in 2012. Honors: Guggenheim Fellowship, Whiting Writers' Award, Steinberg Playwright Award, Bush Fellowship, Kesselring Fellowship, McKnight Advancement Grant, Jerome Fellowship, Helen Merrill Award, Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Award, Cherry Lane Mentor Project Fellowship, multiple MacDowell Colony fellowships, Sundance/Ucross residency and others. David has been awarded commissions from Lincoln Center Theater, Yale Rep, Berkeley Rep, and The Royal Court. He has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation and others. He is a member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild, MCC Theater Playwrights Coalition, Soho Theatres The Hub, and Rising Phoenix Rep. A collection of Davids work, Stunning and Other Plays, is forthcoming from TCG, and his untitled memoir is forthcoming from HarperCollins.
Plays by David Adjmi
3C | ||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #43463 | |||
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Genre: | sitcom-tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Caligula | ||
| 1st Produced: | Workshop: Soho Rep Studio Series | 2007 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59153 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | - | ||
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Elective Affinities | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Mar 2002 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #237 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy one act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | presented in Human Rights Watch | |||||
Synopsis: | a post September 11 monologue in which an upper crust American matron takes tea and proceeds to the chilling as she outlines her belief that it is "hubris" to assume that humans have innate value, and that torture is therefore a wholly suitable response to terror. | |||||
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Evildoers, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Yale Repertory Theatre | 2008 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #238 | |||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Notes: | 2010 Tony Award for Best Play | |||||
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Marie Antoinette | ||
| 1st Produced: | workshop: Soho Rep W/D Series | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #59154 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | tragicomedy Tragedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 3 | ||
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Strange Attractors | ||
| 1st Produced: | Empty Space Theatre | 15 Jan 2003 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #239 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Dark Comedy Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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Synopsis: | Betsy's husband has a mysterious ailment. She makes a sacrifice to pay for treatment | |||||
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Stunning | ||
| 1st Produced: | Duke on 42nd Street, NY | 2009 | ||||
Company: | Lincoln Center Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0-573-69781-4 | ||||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41351 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comic Melodrama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 4 | ||
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| Set in the insular Syrian-Jewish community in Midwood, Brooklyn, Stunning tells the story of Lily, a teenager newly married to a much older man, whose sheltered life is disrupted when Blanche enters her life. | |||||
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Tennis Pro | ||
| 1st Produced: | Summerworks Short Play Event | 2006 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #83948 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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