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Heidi Schreck

HEIDI SCHRECK

  
Nationality:    USA
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Literary Agent:    ICM Partners  represented by Diana Glazer

Heidi Schreck is a playwright and two-time Obie Award-winning actor. Her first play Creature was produced in New York in by New Georges and Page 73 in a well-received production directed by Leigh Silverman; her second There Are No More Big Secrets, directed by Kip Fagan, premiered at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, and was a New York Magazine and Time Out New York's Critic's pick. Most recently, The Long Wharf produced her dark recession-era comedy, The Consultant, which was developed at Playwrights and also directed by Fagan. A former Page 73 Playwriting Fellow and Sundance artist, Heidi is currently working on commissions for South Coast Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan Foundation, and True Love Productions. Grand Concourse marks her return to Playwrights Horizons after appearing as an actor in Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation (Theatre World Award) in 2010. She has also performed extensively at theaters such as The Public (Shakespeare in the Park), Manhattan Theatre Club, Two-Headed Calf, The Foundry, Clubbed Thumb, The Women's Project, The Roundabout, Williamstown, Berkeley Rep, and Center Theatre Group. On television, Heidi has appeared on "The Good Wife", "SVU", and Showtimes' "Nurse Jackie", where she has also worked as a writer. Heidi is Playwrights Horizons' first Tow Foundation playwright in residence.

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below is a list of Heidi Schreck's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Consultant, The         Creature         Grand Concourse         there Are No More Big Secrets

Consultant, The

Consultant, The
After a series of brutal layoffs at Sutton, Feingold and McGrath, a precocious young consultant is brought in to save a middle-aged adman's job, and maybe his life. This hilarious and keenly observed world premiere takes an intimate look at how money and work shape the human heart  and what we owe to others when everything around us is falling apart.

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1st Produced:
Long Wharf Theater, New Haven, Connecticut     08 Jan 2015

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dramatic comedy 90 min

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Creature

Creature
In medieval England, a vain, wealthy young woman named Margery goes mad after the birth of her first child and is tormented by devils for half a year, eight weeks, and four days. then one night, she is restored to sanity by a vision of Jesus Christ in purple robes. In gratitude, she devotes her life to God, becomes the acolyte of a local friar, and sets about trying to become a saint. Battling her intense appetites for earthly pleasures and her complete unsuitability for religious vocation, she becomes increasingly fanatical, alienating her friends and family and endangering her own life

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1st Produced:
Ohio Theatre, NY     02 Nov 2009

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Page 73 Productions and New Georges

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Grand Concourse

Grand Concourse
Having dedicated her life to religious service, Shelley runs a Bronx soup kitchen with unsentimental efficiency, but lately her heart's not quite in it. Her brisk nature masks an unsettling fear that her efforts are meaningless. When Emma  an idealistic but confused college dropout  arrives to volunteer, her reckless mix of generosity and self-involvement pushes Shelley to the breaking point. With keen humor and startling compassion, Heidi Schreck's play navigates the mystery of faith, the limits of forgiveness, and the pursuit of something resembling joy.

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1st Produced:
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, New York     17 Oct 2014

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Playwrights Horizon

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there Are No More Big Secrets

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In there Are No More Big Secrets, Charles and Maxine haven't heard from Gabe since he fled the country to start a new life in Moscow in the early '90s. When he returns almost 20 years later with his Russian wife - a journalist seeking asylum in the United States - he seeks refuge and much more in the home of his once dear friends. Inspired by the playwright's own experience working in Russia, there Are No More Big Secrets is an examination of life's exiles and the uncertain limits of friendship.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
Rattlestick theatre
224 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014     14 Nov 2010

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