Anne Washburn is an American playwright.
Life
Washburn graduated from Reed College and from New York University, with an M.F.A.
Her plays have been produced in New York City by Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Vineyard Theatre, Dixon Place, and Soho Repertory Theatre—and elsewhere by American Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, New Jersey's Two River Theater Company, Washington DC's Studio Theater, and London's Gate Theatre and Almeida Theatre.
Her 2012 play Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play received a Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Production and was praised by The New York Times as "downright brilliant." Her play A Devil at Noon was featured at the 2011 Humana Festival of New American Plays and the play Sleep Rock Thy Brain—written with Rinne Groff 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 American Theatre magazine.
Awards and honors
2007 Guggenheim fellowship
2015 Whiting Award
2015 PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, American Playwright in Mid-Career
2016 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre
Plays
2019 Shipwreck
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 Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play 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 Washburn
Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation
American women dramatists and playwrights
Writers from Berkeley, California
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
Reed College alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American dramatists and playwrights 21st-century American women writers Postmodern theatre