Liz Duffy Adams

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Liz Duffy Adams is an American playwright who has written many plays including Born With Teeth; Or,; Dog Act; The Salonnieres; A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World; The Broken Machine, and others.

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Her play Born With Teeth won a 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. [1] She was rewarded the 2012 "Women of Achievement Award" from the Women's Project Theater [2] as well as a 2010 Lily Award and a 2008 Weston Playhouse Music-Theatre Award, among other honors.

Early life and education

Adams is an American playwright originally from Ipswich, Massachusetts, who holds dual Irish and American citizenship. [3] She has a BFA from NYU's Experimental Theater Wing, and an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama. [4]

She was the 2012–13 Briggs-Copeland Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard University. [5] She is an alumna of New Dramatists (2001-2008). [6]

Reviews

Charles Isherwood wrote in his New York Times review of her historical play Or, "Ms. Adams fares remarkably well. Her language has a natural period flavor and a formidable wit; her characters possess the spark of fully animated spirits; and she weaves into her story both biographical detail and cultural context with grace." [7]

In the Houston Chronicle , Robert Donahoo wrote of Born with Teeth that it "can’t decide if it is about literature, history, political intrigue, religious persecution, or the wide varieties of love, and that’s a good — no, make that glorious — thing. The play grabs them all and squeezes them into a trim, tight, electric production…. [a] jewel of a script." [8]

The DC Theatre Scene review of her Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World, by Debbie Minter Jackson, says, "Adams has a way of transforming ominous situations into thought provoking entertaining experiences, and she handles the premise of the Salem witch trials with care that ends up being thoughtful, mysterious, and if I dare say – startlingly funny." [9]

Robert Hurwitt wrote in his SF Gate review of her Dog Act, "It's a bright dystopian blend of pop and high culture –– Brecht's Mother Courage as a vaudeville troupe leader wandering a Waiting for Godot world as transmuted through generations of Mad Max–Road Warrior movies with some lingering influences from Peter Pan –– peppered with astonishing and exhilarating eruptions of storytelling and wondrous plays within the play." [10]

Notable works

Awards

Awards include a 2021 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. [1] 2012 Women of Achievement award from the Women's Project Theater, [19] a 2010 Lily Award for Playwrighting, [20] a 2008 Weston Playhouse Music-Theatre award, [21] a 2006 NYFA award, a 2017 Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, [22] and the Will Glickman award for Best New Play in 2004 (for Dog Act). [23] She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the arts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists program. She was profiled in American Theatre Magazine in December 2004.[ citation needed ]

Selected works

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  2. ↑ "Women of Achievement Honorees - Women's Project Theater". Archived from the original on May 9, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Small pirates with big ideas". Star Tribune . Archived from the original on January 20, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
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  5. ↑ "Creative Writing". Archived from the original on March 4, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  6. ↑ "Liz Duffy Adams". Archived from the original on December 13, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  7. ↑ Isherwood, Charles (November 9, 2009). "All They Need Is Love (and Freedom and Theater) (Published 2009)". The New York Times. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  8. ↑ Robert Donahoo (May 25, 2022). "Marlowe, Shakespeare trade barbs in Alley's 'Born with Teeth'". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  9. ↑ Jackson, Debbie Minter (July 9, 2013). "A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World". dctheatrescene.com. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  10. ↑ Hurwitt, Robert (September 25, 2004). "It's man eat dog-man in a wild world". SFGATE.com. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
  11. ↑ "BORN WITH TEETH". Alley Theatre Official Website. June 25, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  12. ↑ "Season". Magic Theatre // San Francisco's Home for Bold New Plays. September 27, 2022. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
  13. ↑ Greater Boston Stage Company [ dead link ]
  14. ↑ "Or, « Magic Theatre". February 22, 2014. Archived from the original on February 22, 2014.
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  18. ↑ "The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It". Rob Melrose. Retrieved September 29, 2022.
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  20. ↑ "The Lilly Awards". Archived from the original on April 15, 2013. Retrieved April 24, 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  21. ↑ "New Musical Award | New Works | Weston Playhouse". westonplayhouse.org. Archived from the original on April 27, 2020.
  22. ↑ "Check out Liz Duffy Adams's work on @masscultural's gallery!". Mass Cultural Council.
  23. ↑ "WILL GLICKMAN AWARD". theatrebayarea.org. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
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  26. ↑ Gunnels, Jen; Underwood, Erin (2014). Geek Theater. Underwords. ISBN   978-0985893460.
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  29. ↑ Young, Glenn; Glubke, Mark (September 29, 2002). The Best American Short Plays 2000-2001. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN   9781557834805 – via Google Books.
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  32. ↑ "Aphra Does Antwerp by Liz Duffy Adams | Playscripts Inc". playscripts.com. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
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