Artist

David Adjmi (Playwright) was called “virtuosic” by the New York Times and he was listed as one of the Top Ten in Culture for 2011 by The New Yorker magazine. His play Marie Antoinette received a critically acclaimed world premiere co-production with A.R.T. and Yale Repertory Theatre. The play won 3 Connecticut Critics Circle Awards including Best Play. Marie Antoinette received a New York premiere at Soho Repertory Theatre in fall 2013 in a sold-out run. 3C received its world premiere at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in June 2012, and was dubbed “the most divisive and controversial play of the season” by the New York Post. 3C was selected as one of the top ten plays of 2012 by the New York Post, Time Out New York and The Advocate. Elective Affinities, which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company, received a U.S. premiere at Soho Repertory Theatre starring Zoe Caldwell and was listed as one of the Top 10 of the Year in Time Out New York and The New Yorker magazine, Other plays include Stunning (LCT3|Lincoln Center Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company); The Evildoers (Sundance, Yale Repertory Theatre); Caligula (Soho Repertory Theatre Studio Series); and Strange Attractors (Empty Space Theatre). David was awarded a Mellon Foundation Playwrights Residency, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, the Kesselring Prize for Drama, the Steinberg Playwright Award (the “Mimi”) and the Bush Artists Fellowship, among others. He is the recipient of multiple MacDowell Colony fellowships, Sundance/Ucross residency and others. He currently holds commissions from Lincoln Center Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Royal Court Theatre and he is the recipient of the 2012 Fadiman Award from Center Theatre Group. David has served on panels for the Luminato Festival, National Endowment for the Arts, the McKnight Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council and others. He has taught workshops and seminars at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Harvard University, Yale School of Drama, Primary Stages, New York University, Mark Taper Forum, California Institute of the Arts, Southampton Writers Conference and the University of Rochester. He is a member of New Dramatists, the Dramatists Guild, MCC Theater Playwrights’ Coalition, and Soho Repertory Theatre’s “The Hub.” A collection of David’s work, Stunning and Other Plays, is published by TCG and his work is included in The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays. David’s memoir is forthcoming from HarperCollins and a second play collection from TCG will be published in spring 2015.