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Some of the best new writing from contemporary American playwrights, collected together and introduced by other acclaimed writers.
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Ann Marie Healy's play What Once We Felt was a finalist for the 2009 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and a finalist for the Jane Chambers Playwriting Award. She is an affiliated artist with the Obie-Award winning theatre company Clubbed Thumb, with whom she has often collaborated over the last ten years, including productions and workshops of her plays Beach and Somewhere Someplace Else.
Nick Jones is a performer and writer for theatre, television and film. His most recent play was the critically acclaimed Trevor. His previous play The Coward was nominated for 4 Lortel Awards (winning 2) and is now being made into a motion picture with Big Beach/American Work. He currently works as a staff writer for the Netflix original series Orange is the New Black.
Adam Rapp is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician and film director. His play Red Light Winter was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2006. Rapp is the resident playwright at the Edge Theatre Company in New York City. He teaches at the Yale School of Drama.
Suzan-Lori Parks was named one of TIME magazine's "100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” and in 2002 became the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for her Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog. In 2007 her 365 Plays/365 Days was produced in over 700 theaters worldwide, creating one of the largest grassroots collaborations in theater history. Her work is the subject of the PBS Film The Topdog Diaries.
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The second volume of Oberon Contemporary American Platys. All plays written by contemporary American playwrights. Each play is introduced by well-known & critically acclaimed writers.
