Anne Washburn is an American playwright.

Life

Washburn graduated from

Reed College Reed College is a private liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland neighborhood, with Tudor-Gothic style architecture, and a forested canyon nature preserve at ...

and from

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, with an M.F.A. Her plays have been produced in

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Cherry Lane Theatre The Cherry Lane Theatre is the oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York City. The theater is located at 38 Commerce Street between Barrow and Bedford Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, ...

Clubbed Thumb Clubbed Thumb is a downtown theater company in New York City that commissions, develops, and produces "funny, strange, and provocative new plays by living American writers." Since its founding in 1996, the company has earned five OBIES (including t ...

The Civilians The Civilians is an investigative theatre company in New York City founded in 2001 by Artistic Director, Steve Cosson. The Civilians artists pursue their inquiries using interviews, community residencies, research, and other methods. Working with ...

Vineyard Theatre The Vineyard Theatre is an Off-Broadway non-profit theatre company, located at 108 East 15th Street in Manhattan, New York City, near Union Square. Its first production was in 1981. It is best known for its productions of the Tony award-winning ...

, Dixon Place, and

Soho Repertory Theatre The Soho Repertory Theatre, known as Soho Rep,The official website'now use "Soho", with a lowercase h, as do most articles from th''New York Times''/ref> is an American Off-Broadway theater company based in New York City which is notable for prod ...

—and elsewhere by

American Repertory Theater The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) is a professional not-for-profit theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1979 by Robert Brustein, the A.R.T. is known for its commitment to new American plays and music–theater explorations; to ne ...

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company is a non-profit theatre company located at 641 D Street NW in the Penn Quarter neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded in 1980, it produces new plays which it believes to be edgy, challenging, and thought-provokin ...

, New Jersey's Two River Theater Company, Washington DC's Studio Theater, and London's

Gate Theatre The Gate Theatre is a theatre on Cavendish Row in Dublin, Ireland. It was founded in 1928. History Beginnings The Gate Theatre was founded in 1928 by Hilton Edwards and Micheál MacLiammóir with Daisy Bannard Cogley and Gearóid Ó Lochlai ...

and

Almeida Theatre The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325-seat producing house with an international reputation, which takes its name from the street on which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diver ...

. Her 2012 play ''

Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play ''Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play'' (stylized ''Mr. Burns, a post-electric play'') is an American black comedy play written by Anne Washburn and featuring music by Michael Friedman. ''Mr. Burns'' tells the story of a group of survivors recalling ...

'' received a

Drama League Award The Drama League Awards, created in 1922, honor distinguished productions and performances both on Broadway and Off-Broadway, in addition to recognizing exemplary career achievements in theatre, musical theatre, and directing. Each May, the awards ...

nomination for Outstanding Production and was praised by ''

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'' as "downright brilliant." Her play ''A Devil at Noon'' was featured at the 2011

Humana Festival of New American Plays Humana Festival of New American Plays is an internationally renowned festival that celebrates the contemporary American playwright. Produced annually in Louisville, Kentucky by Actors Theatre of Louisville, this festival showcases new theatrica ...

and the play ''Sleep Rock Thy Brain''—written with

Rinne Groff Rinne Groff (aka Rinne Becker Groff) is an American playwright and performer. Biography Groff was trained at Yale University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she currently teaches. A founding member of Elevator Repair S ...

and Lucas Hnath—was featured at the 2013 Festival. In 2015, ''10 Out of 12'' played at the Soho Rep theater. Washburn is a member of 13P, an associated artist with The Civilians and New Georges, and an alumna of New Dramatists. Her work has been published in

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Awards and honors

*2007

Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the art ...

*2015

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and ...

*2015

PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award The PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award, commonly referred to as the PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, is awarded by the PEN America (formerly PEN American Center). It annually recognizes two American playwrights. A medal is given ...

, American Playwright in Mid-Career *2016 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre

Plays

* 2019 ''

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'' * 2018 ''Little Bunny Foo Foo'' * 2017 ''The Twilight Zone'' * 2016 ''Antlia Pneumatica'' * 2015 ''Iphigenia in Aulis, a transadaptation'', based on Euripides' ''Iphigenia in Aulis'' * 2015 ''10 Out of 12'' * 2012 ''

'' * 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

External links

Anne Washburn
at the Internet Off Broadway Database
doollee.com: Plays by Anne WashburnProfile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation
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