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Liz Duffy Adams
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Personal Statement: A playwright interested in the poetics common to classical and experimental theater.

(portrait art credit: Nancy Adams)

Current Work
Adapting my play THE LISTENER into a alt-rock musical with composer John Hodian. Working on a pirate musical for the Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis.
Short Bio
Plays includes NEON MIRAGE, Humana Festival 2006 anthology play; THE LISTENER, produced by Crowded Fire in the Bay Area and Moxie Theater San Diego, workshopped at Portland Center Stage's 2006 JAW/West; WET, OR ISABELLA THE PIRATE QUEEN ENTERS THE HORSE LATITUDES, Humana Festival finalist produced by MOXIE Theater San Diego, workshopped at Summer Play Festival; DOG ACT, produced by Shotgun Players in San Francisco and Berkeley, and MOXIE Theater in San Diego; workshopped at Bay Area Playwrights Festival and Portland Stage Company's Little Festival of the Unexpected, Humana Festival finalist 2005; ONE BIG LIE, music theater piece co-commissioned/produced by Crowded Fire and Playwrights Foundation, San Francisco; THE RECKLESS RUTHLESS BRUTAL CHARGE OF IT (THE TRAIN PLAY) produced by Crowded Fire in San Francisco and Clubbed Thumb in New York; A WRINKLE IN TIME, commissioned and produced by Syracuse Stage. Publications include POODLE WITH GUITAR AND DARK GLASSES in Applause Book's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies by Smith & Kraus, Applause, and Heinemann, and several plays with Playscripts, Inc. Profiled: American Theatre magazine December 2004. Graduate: NYU's Experimental Theater Lab and Yale School of Drama.
Honors
New Dramatists alumna (2001-2008). 2008 Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award; 2006 New York Fellowship for the Arts Award; 2006 Frederick Loewe Award; 2004 Will Glickman Award (DOG ACT). Residencies: MacDowell, Millay, and Djerassi.

Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations
New Dramatists alumna; New Georges Affiliated Artist

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Contact
c/o New Dramatists 424 W. 44th Street New York, NY 10036
Artist Location
New York, NY

Art forms
Theater

Type of artist
Writer

General Themes
Activism/Social Justice, Environment, History, Mass Media/Pop Culture, Comedy/Humor/Satire
Last updated on October 30th, 2008

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