Lucy Thurber
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Lucy Thurber is an American playwright based in New York City.
[edit] Career
As of 2007, she is the author of eight plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Innocence is a Sin, Killers & Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World, Monstrosity, and Scarcity. She was the recipient of the 2000/2001 Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship. Her play, Bottom of the World, was produced by WET in the winter of 2005 and was previously workshopped at The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Center this past summer. Bottom of the World was part of The Tribeca Theater festival this past fall and received a workshop at The Public Theater. She attended New River Dramatists in North Carolina. Her play, Where We’re Born, was produced at Rattlestick Theater in the fall of 2003. Killers and Other Family was produced at Rattlestick Theater in 2001. Also in 2001, she was commissioned by The Keene Theater Company to write a short piece called The Kool-Aid Smile, which was presented in “Keene America.” She was a guest artist at The Perseverance Theatre twice, where she helped to adapt both Moby-Dick and Desire Under the Elms. Her ten-minute play, Dinner, is published in a collection called Not So Sweet, 16 Plays From Soho Rep’s Ten-Minute Play Festival. She is a member of MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, Primary Stages’ writing group, and 13P.
In fall of 2007, her play Scarcity was produced by New York's Atlantic Theatre Company in its Lucy Gross Theater. The play starred Kristen Johnston, Jesse Eisenberg and Michael T. Weiss.
