Melissa James Gibson

Melissa James Gibson is a Canadian-born playwright based in New York.

Life

The child of former BC Liberal MLA Gordon Gibson and his journalist wife Valerie, Gibson grew up in North Vancouver.^[1] She graduated from Columbia University and from the Yale School of Drama with an M.F.A. in Playwriting. She is working on commissions for the La Jolla Playhouse and The Adirondack Theatre Festival. She has received fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the MacDowell Colony.^[2] The New York Times theatre critic Charles Isherwood wrote that with her play This, Gibson “graduates into the theatrical big leagues with this beautifully conceived, confidently executed and wholly accessible work.” ^[3]

Awards

• 2002 Obie for playwriting, Kesselring Prize, The Best Plays of 2001-02 for [sic] ^[4]
• 2002 Whiting Writers' Award

Works

• [sic] Steppenwolf Theatre Company commission
• Suitcase, or Those That Resemble Flies From A Distance (NEA/ TCG Theatre Residency Program, 2004 production at Soho Rep)
• Brooklyn Bridge, music by Barbara Brousal (The Children's Theater Company/New Dramatists Playground program commission)
• Given Fish (Steppenwolf Theatre Company commission, grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Greenwall Foundation)
• Six Fugues
• God’s Paws
• Nuda Veritas
• Current Nobody, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, DC, 2007
• This, Playwrights Horizons, 2009,^[5] Canadian Premiere: Vancouver Playhouse, January 2011, directed by Amiel Gladstone.

References

1. ^ http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/This+perfect+return+Vancouver+born+playwright/4066326/story.html
2. ^ http://newdramatists.org/melissa_james_gibson.htm#
3. ^ http://www.theprovince.com/entertainment/This+perfect+return+Vancouver+born+playwright/4066326/story.html#ixzz1AfOz4iQW
4. ^ http://www.villagevoice.com/obies/search
5. ^ http://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/12-2009/melissa-james-gibsons-this-extends-at-playwrights_23380.html

External links

• "Melissa James Gibson", doollee'
• "Interview with Melissa James Gibson", Playwrights Foundation, November 11, 2008
• "Melissa James Gibson: Lady of the Flies", The New York Observer, John Heilpern, February 8, 2004

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