David Adjmi

David Adjmi is an American playwright. He is the recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship,^[1] the 2010 Whiting Writers' Award,^[2] the inaugural Steinberg Playwright Award,^[3] a Bush Artists Fellowship, and the Kesselring Fellowship for Drama.^[4]

Life

He studied at Sarah Lawrence College,^[5] the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Juilliard School's American Playwrights Program

He lives in Brooklyn Heights.^[6]

Career

Adjmi's play The Evildoers was developed at the Sundance Institute and the Royal Court Theatre in London. It premiered in January 2008 at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Variety called it "an anxiety attack of a play" and, of Adjmi, noted that he is "clearly a writer with a distinct voice, ambition and style."^[7] His play Stunning opened a month later at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington DC where it was selected as one of the top ten plays of the year by The Washington Post and was published in American Theatre magazine. Stunning premiered in New York at Lincoln Center Theatre in June 2009 where it played an extended run to sold-out houses. Adjmi's play Marie Antoinette was developed at the Goodman Theatre's New Stages Series and the Sundance Institute's Residency at the Public Theatre. It will premiere in a coproduction between A.R.T. and Yale Repertory Theatre in Fall 2012. His monologue Elective Affinities was commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre and later premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the United Kingdom. In November, 2011 it will have its U.S. Premiere at Soho Repertory Theatre, featuring Tony Award winning actress Zoe Caldwell, and directed by OBIE winner Sarah Benson. The New Yorker recently identified Adjmi as an as an "up-and-coming" playwright who is part of "a new trend in the American theatre."^[8]

Other Plays include Strange Attractors, Caligula and 3C. Adjmi is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including the Helen Merrill Award, the Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Fellowship, and McKnight and Jerome Fellowships from The Playwrights' Center. A collection of his work, Stunning and Other Plays, will be published by Theatre Communications Group in 2011, and Adjmi is currently at work on a "viral" memoir for HarperCollins. His play "3C" premieres at Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre in June 2012.

Works

• Strange Attractors (Empty Space Theatre) 15 January 2003
• The Evildoers (Yale Rep)
• Elective Affinities (Royal Court Theatre, London, RSC/Stratford and Soho Theatre, Soho Rep)
• Marie Antoinette (American Repertory Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre) 2012
• 3C (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre) 2012
• Caligula (Soho Rep)
• Stunning (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Duke on 42nd Street), 2009^[9]

Reviews

• "Domestic Politics", The New Yorker, Hilton Als, June 29, 2009
• Felicia R. Lee (June 16, 2009). "Once a Boyhood Outsider, Now Reflecting on His Tribe". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/theater/17stunning.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1309645943-HSCjXGmr5uwAzgyKHXCkIA. 
• "David Adjmi", Time Out New York, David Cote, June 10, 2009

See also

Theatre portal

References

1. ^ http://www.gf.org/fellows/17048-david-r-adjmi
2. ^ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/144462-Stunning-Playwright-David-Adjmi-Wins-2010-Whiting-Award
3. ^ http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/a/david_adjmi/index.html
4. ^ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/126310-Joseph-Adjmi-Schwartz-and-McCraney-to-Receive-Kesselring-Awards
5. ^ http://www.slc.edu/news-events/news/2011-04-29-alumni-awarded-prestigious-guggenheim-fellowships-nr
6. ^ http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/23753
7. ^ http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935952.html?categoryid=1265&cs=1
8. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2009/01/26/090126crth_theatre_als
9. ^ http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsA/adjmi-david.html

External links

• "I interview playwrights part 5: David Adjmi", adamszymkowicz, June 06, 2009
• http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=5326
• http://www.woollymammoth.net/performances/show_stunning.php

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