Anne Washburn
Anne Washburn is an American playwright. She was the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim fellowship[1] and the winner of a 2015 Whiting Writers' Award.[2]
Life
Washburn graduated from Reed College and from New York University, with an M.F.A.[2]
Her plays have been produced in New York City by Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Vineyard Theatre, Dixon Place, and Soho Repertory Theatre—and elsewhere by American Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, New Jersey's Two River Theater Company, Washington DC's Studio Theater, and London's Gate Theatre and Almeida Theatre.[3][4]
Her play A Devil at Noon was featured at the 2011 Humana Festival of New American Plays and the play Sleep Rock Thy Brain—written with Rinne Groff and Lucas Hnath—was featured at the 2013 Festival.[5]
Washburn is a member of 13P,[6] an associated artist with The Civilians and New Georges, and an alumna of New Dramatists.[4] Her work has been published in American Theatre magazine.
Plays
- 2012 Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
- 2011 A Devil at Noon
- 2010 The Small
- 2010 Orestes, a transadaptation, based on Euripides' Orestes
- 2008 October/November
- 2006 I Have Loved Strangers
- 2004 The Internationalist
- 2004 The Ladies
- 2003 Apparition
- 2001 The Communist Dracula Pageant
- 1999 Everything Not Forbidden Is Permitted (Or Vice Versa)
- 1998 Refreshment of the Spirit
References
- ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: Anne Washburn
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Whiting Foundation: 2015 Whiting Award winners
- ↑ Actors Theater of Louisville: Anne Washburn
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 New Dramatists
- ↑ Actors Theatre of Louisville: Sleep Rock Thy Brain, slated to Premiere during the 37th Annual Humana Festival
- ↑ 13p (Thirteen Playwrights, Inc.)