Casey Childs Casey Childs is the Founder of Primary Stages (www.primarystages.org)], a New York State non-profit, Off-Broadway theater company in New York City. Since 1984 they have produced over 175 productions of new plays, many of them world premieres and all ...
as an Off-Broadway not-for-profit theater company. In 2004, Primary Stages moved from its 99-seat home of 17 years at Davenport Theatre, 354 West 45th Street to the 199-seat theater at
59E59 Theaters
59E59 Theaters is a curated rental venue located in New York City that consists of three theater spaces or stages. It shows both off-Broadway (in Theater A) and off-off-Broadway plays (in Theaters B and C). The complex is owned and operated b ...
. In 2014, the company moved to The Duke on 42nd Street until 2016, when the
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, ...
became the home for all Primary Stages productions.
History
For over 30 years, Primary Stages has put on more than 130 new plays by writers such as
Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name ...
Dan O'Brien
Daniel Dion O'Brien (born July 18, 1966) is an American former decathlete and Olympic gold medalist. He won the Olympic title in 1996, three consecutive world championships (1991, 1993, 1995), and set the world record in 1992.
Early life
O' ...
Kate Hamill
Kate Hamill is an American actress and playwright.
Hamill is known for writing and acting in innovative, contemporary adaptations of classic novels for the stage, including Jane Austen’s '' Sense and Sensibility'' and ''Pride and Prejudice'' a ...
Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman, born John McDowell Wellman on March 7, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American playwright, author, and poet.Lee Blessing, and David Ives.
Primary Stages 9th season included the world premiere of ''
All in the Timing
''All in the Timing'' is a collection of one-act plays by the American playwright David Ives, written between 1987 and 1993. It had its premiere Off-Broadway in 1993 at Primary Stages, and was revived at Primary Stages in 2013. It was first publis ...
'' by David Ives, the most produced play in the United States during the 1995/96 season.
Primary Stages supports playwrights and develops new works through commissions, workshops, readings and two flagship programs: The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, and The Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA).
Education
Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group
Primary Stages is host to the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, which brings together six to eight emerging playwrights each season to create new plays for the American theater. These playwrights attend weekly meetings in the fall and spring, where they bring new pages to each session and receive feedback on their works in progress. At the end of the season, Primary Stages presents the first public reading of these plays in The Dorothy Strelsin Fresh Ink Readings Series.
Since its inception, over 45 full-length plays have been written in the group, many of which have been produced by prominent local and national theaters including
Long Wharf Theatre
Long Wharf Theatre is a nonprofit institution in New Haven, Connecticut, a pioneer in the not-for-profit regional theatre movement, the originator of several prominent plays, and a venue where many internationally known actors have appeared.
Fo ...
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, ...
, and Primary Stages.
2018/19 members:
*Kevin Artigue
*Hilary Bettis
*Eleanor Burgess
*Chisa Hutchinson
*Elizabeth Irwin
*Jon Kern
*Matthew Minnicino
*Erica Saleh
*Jordan Seavey
*Charly Evon Simpson
Past members:
* David Lindsay Abaire
* Sofia Alvarez
*
Tanya Barfield
Tanya Barfield is an American playwright whose works have been presented both nationally and internationally.DeVoti, Emily"Blue Door: Painting within the lines of history with Tanya Barfield"brooklynrail.org, October 2006, Accessed 13 September 21 ...
Cusi Cram
Cusi Cram (born September 22, 1967) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actress, model, director, educator, and advocate for women in the arts.
Early life
Cusi Cram was born in Manhattan, New York, on September 22, 1967, to Lady Jeanne Camp ...
*Janis Astor del Valle
*Bruce Faulk
*Josh Fox
* Jessica Goldberg
*Daniel Goldfarb
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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 ...
Katori Hall
Katori Hall (born May 10, 1981) is an American playwright, screenwriter, producer, actress, and director from Memphis, Tennessee. Hall's best known works include the hit television series '' P-Valley'', the Tony-nominated '' Tina: The Tina Turner ...
Julia Jordan
Julia Jordan is an American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter. She is a graduate of Barnard College, class of 1989, and received a master's degree from Trinity College Dublin.
Biography
Jordan was born in Chicago and spent much of h ...
*Ryan King
*Josh Koenigsberg
*Paola Lazaro
*Josh Levine
*Cheri Magid
*Rogelio Martínez
*Molly Smith Metzler
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Janine Nabers
Janine Nabers is an American playwright and television writer.
Early life
Nabers was born in Houston, Texas to Janet and Cornelius Nabers. She attended Alief Elsik High School in Houston. Nabers has a BA in theater from Ithaca College and an ...
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Dan O'Brien
Daniel Dion O'Brien (born July 18, 1966) is an American former decathlete and Olympic gold medalist. He won the Olympic title in 1996, three consecutive world championships (1991, 1993, 1995), and set the world record in 1992.
Early life
O' ...
*Matthew Paul Olmos
*Edwin Sanchez
*Julian Sheppard
*Mat Smart
*Susan Soon He Stanton
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Lucy Thurber
Lucy Thurber is an American playwright based in New York City. She is the recipient of the first Gary Bonasorte Memorial Prize for Playwriting, a Lilly Award and a 2014 OBIE Award for ''The Hill Town Plays''.
Biography
She was born in ...
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Sheri Wilner
Sheri Wilner (born January 22, 1969) is an American playwright.
Her works have been produced at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, the Guthrie Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA), ...
Primary Stages Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) The Primary Stages Marvin and Anne Einhorn School of Performing Arts (ESPA) is an interdisciplinary institution in New York City that offers courses in Acting, Writing and Directing.
History
ESPA developed from a collection of in-house playwriting ...
ESPA is open to all artists, in all stages of their careers.
ESPA offers a series of intensive classes in acting, playwriting, and directing taught by industry professionals that include PS staff members along with working professionals such as: Joshua Harmon,
Winter Miller
Winter Miller (born 1973) is an American playwright and journalist. In the summer of 2007, a reading (directed by Joanna Settle) of Miller's play ''In Darfur'' was at the Delacorte Theater in New York City.
Miller was formerly the assistant to ...
Judy Gold
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, Rogelio Martínez, Edwin Sanchez, and
Morgan Jenness
Morgan Jenness is an American freelance dramaturg based in New York City.
Biography
For over ten years, Jenness worked at The Public Theater, under both George C. Wolfe and Joseph Papp in roles ranging from literary manager to Director of Play De ...
. Previous faculty members include
Lucy Thurber
Lucy Thurber is an American playwright based in New York City. She is the recipient of the first Gary Bonasorte Memorial Prize for Playwriting, a Lilly Award and a 2014 OBIE Award for ''The Hill Town Plays''.
Biography
She was born in ...
, Julia Jordan, Brooke Berman,
Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl (born January 24, 1974) is an American playwright, professor, and essayist. Among her most popular plays are ''Eurydice'' (2003), ''The Clean House'' (2004), and ''In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)'' (2009). She has been the reci ...
Tanya Barfield
Tanya Barfield is an American playwright whose works have been presented both nationally and internationally.DeVoti, Emily"Blue Door: Painting within the lines of history with Tanya Barfield"brooklynrail.org, October 2006, Accessed 13 September 21 ...
, Cusi Cram, and Judith Light. The school is run by the Primary Stages Associate Director of Education, Sarah Matteucci.
Notable actors who have appeared with Primary Stages
Mark Blum
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L. Scott Caldwell
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Early life
Born the mi ...
Michael Cumpsty
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Li ...
Gregg Edelman
Gregg Edelman (born September 12, 1958) is an American movie, television and theatre actor.
Biography
Edelman was born in Chicago, Illinois, attended Niles North High School, where he starred as Li'l Abner opposite future soap star Nancy Lee Gra ...
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Vera Farmiga
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Calista Flockhart
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Joanna Gleason
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David Greenspan
David Greenspan (born 1956) is an American actor and playwright. He is the recipient of six Obies, including an award in 2010 for Sustained Achievement.
Life
Greenspan was born in 1956 in Los Angeles, California. He holds a B.A. in Drama fro ...
Kate Hamill
Kate Hamill is an American actress and playwright.
Hamill is known for writing and acting in innovative, contemporary adaptations of classic novels for the stage, including Jane Austen’s '' Sense and Sensibility'' and ''Pride and Prejudice'' a ...
Harriet Harris
Harriet Sansom Harris (born January 8, 1955) is an American actress known for her theater performances and for her portrayals of Bebe Glazer on ''Frasier'' and Felicia Tilman on ''Desperate Housewives''.
Harris won a Tony Award in 2002 as a Fea ...
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Randy Harrison
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Early life and college
Harrison was born in Nashua, New Hampshire, where he starting ...
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Jayne Houdyshell
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Houdyshell made her Broadway debut in the 2005 production of ''It's a Wonderful Life''. The following year she earn ...
Amy Irving
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Born in Palo Alto, Ca ...
Nathan Lane
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Adriane Lenox
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Carolyn McCormick
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Life and career
McCormick was born and raised in Midland, Texas, and graduated first in her class from ...
S. Epatha Merkerson
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Estelle Parsons
Estelle Margaret Parsons (born November 20, 1927) is an American actress, singer and stage director.
After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting. She worked for the television program '' Today'' and ...
Isabella Rossellini
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Marian Seldes
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Richard Thomas Richard Thomas or Dick Thomas may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* Dick Thomas (singer) (1915–2003), American singing cowboy and actor
* Richard Thomas (actor) (born 1951), American actor
* Richard Thomas (author) (born 1967), American ...
George Wendt
George Robert Wendt Jr. (born October 17, 1948) is an American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Norm Peterson on the television sitcom ''Cheers'' (1982–1993), which earned him six consecutive nominations for the Primetime Emm ...
Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck (born February 19, 1958) is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. Her work has appeared on the Broadway and Off-Broadway stage, in film, and on television. Among her awards are the Mystery Writers of America's ...
Kate Hamill
Kate Hamill is an American actress and playwright.
Hamill is known for writing and acting in innovative, contemporary adaptations of classic novels for the stage, including Jane Austen’s '' Sense and Sensibility'' and ''Pride and Prejudice'' a ...
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*The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord ( Scott Carter)
*Daniel's Husband ( Michael McKeever)
*Fade ( Tanya Saracho)
*The Roads to Home (
Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name ...
Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck (born February 19, 1958) is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. Her work has appeared on the Broadway and Off-Broadway stage, in film, and on television. Among her awards are the Mystery Writers of America's ...
Eric Simonson
Eric Simonson (born June 27, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American writer and director in theatre, film and opera. He is a member of Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, and the author of plays '' Lombardi'', ''Fake'', ''Honest'', '' Magic ...
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*Harbor (
Chad Beguelin
Chad Beguelin (born September 24, 1969) is an American playwright and lyricist. He wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the book for '' The Prom''. He also wrote the book for Disney's ''Aladdin'', as well as additional lyrics for the score. He was nom ...
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*The Call (
Tanya Barfield
Tanya Barfield is an American playwright whose works have been presented both nationally and internationally.DeVoti, Emily"Blue Door: Painting within the lines of history with Tanya Barfield"brooklynrail.org, October 2006, Accessed 13 September 21 ...
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*All in the Timing ( David Ives)
*Him (Daisy Foote)
*Harrison, TX: Three plays by Harton Foote (
Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name ...
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*The Morini Strad (
Willy Holtzman
Willy Holtzman (born 1951) is an American playwright and screenwriter, often focusing on theatrical representations of actual historical events. Holtzman has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations, a Humanitas Prize, a Writers Guild Award, a P ...
Beth Henley
Elizabeth Becker Henley (born May 8, 1952) is an American playwright, screenwriter, and actress. Her play ''Crimes of the Heart'' won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the 1981 New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best American Play, and a ...
Lisa Loomer
Lisa Loomer (born 1950) is an American playwright and screenwriter who has also worked as an actress and stand-up comic. She is best known for her play ''The Waiting Room'' (1994), in which three women from different time periods meet in a modern ...
, Michele Lowe,
Marco Pennette
Marco Pennette (born July 9, 1966) is an American television writer and producer.
Early life
Pennette was born in Greenwich, Connecticut where he grew up loving theatre: "I want to go into theatre; TV sort of lured me away." He attended New Yo ...
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Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck (born February 19, 1958) is an American playwright, television writer, and novelist. Her work has appeared on the Broadway and Off-Broadway stage, in film, and on television. Among her awards are the Mystery Writers of America's ...
, Luanne Rice, Annie Weisman & Cheryl L. West)
*Secrets of the Trade (Jonathon Tolins)
*In Transit ( Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russ Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth)
*Black Tie ( A.R. Gurney)
*A Lifetime Burning (
Cusi Cram
Cusi Cram (born September 22, 1967) is an American playwright, screenwriter, actress, model, director, educator, and advocate for women in the arts.
Early life
Cusi Cram was born in Manhattan, New York, on September 22, 1967, to Lady Jeanne Camp ...
Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name ...
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*Hunting and Gathering (Brooke Berman)
*Something You Did (
Willy Holtzman
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Athol Fugard
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The Day Emily Married
''The Day Emily Married'' is a play by Horton Foote. The play takes place in the fictitious town of Harrison, Texas, where Foote has set many of his plays.
Setting
The setting is in the early summer of 1955 and takes place in Harrison, Texas. ...
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Horton Foote
Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film ''To Kill a Mockingbird'', which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name ...
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*String of Pearls (Michele Lowe)
*Sabina (
Willy Holtzman
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*Going To St. Ives ( Lee Blessing)
*Strictly Academic (
A. R. Gurney
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Julia Jordan
Julia Jordan is an American playwright, television writer, and screenwriter. She is a graduate of Barnard College, class of 1989, and received a master's degree from Trinity College Dublin.
Biography
Jordan was born in Chicago and spent much of h ...
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*Call The Children Home ( Thomas Babe)
*The Fourth Wall ( A.R. Gurney)
*One Million Butterflies ( Stephen Belber)
*Romola & Nijinsky (Lynne Alvarez)
*An Immaculate Misconception (
Carl Djerassi
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*One Shot, One Kill (
Richard Vetere
Richard Vetere (born January 15, 1952 in New York City) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer, poet and actor.
Career
Born in 1952, Vetere grew up in Maspeth, Queens, a setting that appears in a number of his plays. ...
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*Straight As a Line (
Luis Alfaro
Luis Alfaro (born 1963 in Los Angeles, California) is a Chicano performance artist, writer, theater director, and social activist.
He grew up in the Pico Union district near Downtown Los Angeles, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School i ...
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*Krisit (Y York)
*No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs (John Henry Redwood)
*Byrd's Boy (Bruce J. Robinson)
*Barefoot Boy with Shoes On ( Edwin Sanchez)
*Elsa Edgar (Bob Kingdom with Neil Bartlett)
*An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Bouef ( Michael Hollinger)
*When They Speak of Rita (Daisy B. Foote)
*The Old Settler (John Henry Redwood)
*High Life ( Lee MacDougall)
*The Turn of the Screw (
Jeffrey Hatcher
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from the story by Henry James)
*Lips (
Constance Congdon
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Jeffrey Hatcher
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Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman, born John McDowell Wellman on March 7, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American playwright, author, and poet.Bill Corbett
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and Kira Obolensky)
*Mere Mortals ( David Ives)
*The Model Apartment ( Donald Margulies)
*The Preservation Society (William S. Leavengood)
*Virgins & Other Myths (Colin Martin)
*Sabina (
Willy Holtzman
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*Ancient History and English Made Simple ( David Ives)
*Laughing Matters (
Nick Ullett
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Filmography
* '' Call of Duty: Finest Hour'' (2004) (VG) (voice) (as Nick Ullet)
* '' Yes, Dear'' ...
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*You Should Be So Lucky ( Charles Busch)
*I Sent a Letter to My Love (
Melissa Manchester
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Early l ...
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Jeffrey Sweet
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Personal life
Sweet's father was James Sweet, a science writer for the University of Chicago who aided Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warre ...
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*Don Juan in Chicago ( David Ives)
*"2" Goering at Nuremberg ( Romulus Linney)
*Breaking Up ( Michael Cristofer)
*Crackdancing (Joseph Hindy)
*The Hyacinth Macaw (
Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman, born John McDowell Wellman on March 7, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American playwright, author, and poet.Mac Wellman
Mac Wellman, born John McDowell Wellman on March 7, 1945, in Cleveland, Ohio, is an American playwright, author, and poet.Richard Dresser)
*Hollywood Scheherazade (Charlie Peters)
*Black Market (
Joe Sutton
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His play ''Voir Dire'' opened in 1995 at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. The play received attention after the O. J. Simpso ...
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*Bovver Boys (
Willy Holtzman
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*Swim Visit (Wesley Moore)
*Sketchbook Series - Late Night Shows: Babel Stories; Matthew Maguire, The Traveling Squirrel ( Robert Lord), The Secret Sits in the Middle (Lisa Maria Radano)
*At the Still Point ( Jordan Roberts
*Nasty Little Secrets (Lanie Robertson)
*Algerian Romance (Kres Mersky)
*Cellophane (
Mac Wellman
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*Ancient History ( David Ives)
*Sketchbook Series - Late Night Political Comedy Sketches: The Thrill of Victory, The Agony of Debate (
Joe DiPietro
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Stephen Fife
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Early years
Bor ...
, Kathy Giamo and Mark Michaels)
*Stopping the Desert (Glen Merzer)
*The Wedding of the Siamese Twins (Burton Cohen)
*Angel Face (
Laura Harrington
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Harrington is perhaps best known for her role as the main character's sister in the 1993 film ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape''. Previously seen as the character Mrs. ...
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*An Evening of Four One Acts:
*The Time I Died ( Ron Carlson)
*Madame Zelena Finally Comes Clean ( Ron Carlson)
*Lone Deer (Donald Wollner)
*Splitsville (Richard Dresser)
*Beyond Bloomingdale's (Diane Heles and Janet Reed)
*Florida Girls (Nancy Fitz-Hasty)
*Heavy Breathing (Scott Carter)
*Free Fall (
Laura Harrington
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Harrington is perhaps best known for her role as the main character's sister in the 1993 film ''What's Eating Gilbert Grape''. Previously seen as the character Mrs. ...
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*Hidden Parts (Lynne Alvarez)
*Late One Afternoon in Okabena (Marjorie Mahle)
*In September Woods (David Hill)
*Bertrano or Hats Don't Lie (Charlie Peters)
Broadway Transfers
Primary Stages has seen three Broadway transfers with its productions of In Transit in 2016,
Bronx Bombers
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