American Academy of Dramatic Arts Bff by Anna Ziegler
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ANNA ZIEGLER
(1979 - )
Nationality: USA
Literary Amanuensis: The Gersh Agency, NY represented by Seth Glewen
Anna Ziegler'southward plays have been produced at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Magic Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New Georges, Theater J, DR2 (W.E.T.), Ruby-red Lane Theatre (Playwrights Realm), Chocolate-brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre, Summer Play Festival (SPF), The Fountain Theatre, English Theatre of Berlin, Theatre503 (United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland), Synchronicity Theatre, Jewish Ensemble Theatre, and Vermont Stage Company, amidst others. She has received commissions from The Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Virginia Phase Company and New Georges. Awards include the Stage Award, Weissberger Award (finalist), Edgerton New Play Prize, Douglas T. Ward Playwriting Prize and NYIT Honour nomination for Best Short Play (2011, 2012). She has participated in residencies and workshops at the Sundance Theatre Lab, O'Neill Playwrights Conference, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Greatcoat Cod Theatre Project, Arena Stage, PlayLabs (Playwrights Center), Chautauqua Theater Visitor, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, TheatreWorks New Works Festival, Lark Playwrights Workshop, McCarter Playwrights Retreat, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Araca Group, Old Vic New Voices, terraNOVA Groundbreakers Playwrights Grouping, Orchard Project, Ars Nova, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, Primary Stages, GEva Theatre Center, Icicle Creek Theatre Festival and The New Group. Publications include New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 and DPS editions of BFF, Life Science and Photo 51. Film credits include a screenplay accommodation of Photograph 51 funded past a Tribeca Motion-picture show Institute/Sloan Foundation grant. Ms. Ziegler has a BA from Yale and an MFA from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts.
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Another Fashion Dwelling house BFF ("Best Friends Forever") Male child Delicate Send, A Dov and Ali Everything You Have Get-go Kiss Germ Projection, The I Battled Lenny Ross If In the Same Room Last Friction match, The Life Science Map of Broken Glass, A Minotaur, The Novel Photograph 51 Ron Swoboda's Wish Sorry Vocal Sunlight in a Cafeteria To Be Fair Variations on a Theme
Another Style Dwelling Synopsis: Some other Style Home follows the Nadelman family unit as parents Philip and Lillian visit Joey, their puzzling, difficult- to-handle son at summertime campsite in Maine. Afterward greeting his parents with fifty-fifty more than hostility than usual, Joey disappears. In the search for their son, Philip and Lillian expose the truth of their own human relationship and the total Nadelman family unit portrait becomes developed. A play about spousal relationship and family unit and coming to have what nosotros can't fix or don't understand. Notes: Another Way Habitation was formerly titled An Incident. 1st Produced: Magic Theatre In San Francisco 2012 Organisations: - 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (to a higher place) is underlined so the play may exist purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (beneath) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: comedy drama Parts: Male person: 3 Female: 2 Other: - Further Reference: - BFF ("Best Friends Forever") Synopsis: chronicles the period of boyhood in girls when the tools of growing up are also weapons. In it, Lauren and Eliza, best friends who enter pubescence at unlike times, go divided socially and psychologically by the changes their bodies undergo (or don't). In the end, Eliza is accused of something she doesn't yet empathise and for years to come Lauren holds herself answerable for the act of growing upwards, an act that became more dangerous than she could have peradventure anticipated. Notes: This play has been developed At SoHo Rep, the Lark theatre, And the Sundance theatre Lab 2005. 1st Produced: Organisations: Wet 1st Published: Dramatists Play Service Inc. (also included in the anthology New Playwrights: the Best Plays of 2007 (Smith and Kraus).), 2008 - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined and so the play may be purchased past directly click from the Publisher, otherwise (beneath) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Play/Drama Parts: Male: ane Female: 2 Other: - Further Reference: - Boy Inspired by a true story, Anna Zieglers Boy explores the tricky terrain of finding love amidst the confusion of sexual identity, and the inextricable bail between a physician and patient. In the 1960s, a well-intentioned md convinces the parents of a male baby to raise their son as a girl after a terrible accident. Two decades later, the repercussions of that choice go on to unfold. Notes: - 1st Produced: Organisations: Keen company & Ensemble Studio Theatre 1st Published: Music: - To Purchase This Play: If Publisher (to a higher place) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: drama 90 min Parts: Male: 3 Female person: 2 Other: - Further Reference: - Frail Send, A A haunting love triangle triggers an unexpected chain of events in this poetic world premiere play. In the early on stages of a new relationship, Sarah and Sam are lovers happily discovering each other. Sarah and Nate know everything about each other, all-time of friends since childhood and maybe something more. But when Nate shows up unannounced on Sarah'southward doorstep, she's left questioning what and who she wants in this humorous and heartbreaking look at love, memory and the decisions that alter the course of our lives. (From Cincinnati Playhouse'southward website) Notes: - 1st Produced: Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park 22 Mar 2014 Organisations: - 1st Published: A href="https://www.oberonbooks.com/anna-ziegler-plays-one.html" target="_blank">Oberon Books (2016) >>> 978-1783193158 Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (to a higher place) is underlined then the play may be purchased past direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: one-act drama Parts: Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: - Further Reference: - Dov and Ali Synopsis: In one case upon a time, in the middle of a school, in the middle of Detroit, in the middle of the U.s., there was a instructor and a precocious student. I was a religious Jew and the other a religious Muslim. And in one case upon a fourth dimension they were friends, sort of. 2 men question, button and provoke each other as they struggle to live past the rules they prepare themselves when faced with heartbreaking consequences. Notes: **** Time Out - Critics Choice , ***** Whats On Phase there Are A lot of intelligent things to be said About Anna Ziegler's Dov And Ali, After All, it is A play which faces up to burning problems that Are relevant to us All, only there is really merely one thing that needs to be said. Go And meet it. Ziegler tackles powerful issues with A gentle human perspective. . .Dov And Ali is A powerhouse play that drives its way through An hr And A one-half of twists And turns About race, individuality, human relations And role models. . .essentially this fearless piece of theatre pulls no punches. there is A resounding truth that pours out of it in All directions, flowing freely from the writing, the set blueprint, the Acting, And the directing, And yet Dov And Ali doesn't preach. there Are no Answers offered, there Are no morals proffered, but when theatre is this adept, it reminds yous how essential it is. See link for full review: http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/offwestend/?p=124 1st Produced: Organisations: - 1st Published: http://www.indietheaternow.com/Plays - Music: - To Purchase This Play: If Publisher (higher up) is underlined then the play may be purchased by directly click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Play/Drama Parts: Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: - Further Reference: - Everything You Have Synopsis: Mike, a Chinese immigrant cab driver, and Lars and Lucretia, middle-anile Swedish-Americans, have never met until Mike hits and injures their son. After that, their lives are inextricably leap as Lars and Lucretia have the law into their own hands. A play about dear, guilt and loss, "Everything You Take" chronicles the backwash of an accident, a fourth dimension when everyone is to blame and no one is, and the penalization becomes less about the crime than about grief itself. Notes: - 1st Produced: - Organisations: - 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Play/Drama Parts: Male: v Female: two Other: - Farther Reference: - Beginning Osculation Synopsis: - Notes: - 1st Produced: Summerworks Short Play Effect 2006 Organisations: - 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may exist purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: - Parts: Male person: - Female: - Other: - Further Reference: - Germ Project, The Synopsis: This show features the piece of work of playwrights Kara Lee Corthron (directed by Kara-Lynn Vaeni), Lynn Rosen (directed by Shoshana Gold), Kathryn Walat (directed by Portia Krieger), and Anna Ziegler (directed by Beatrice Terry). the four "germs" of full-length plays of scope and risk commissioned by New Georges for this projection will exist presented together, fully produced, in a cohesive and satisfying ninety-minute intermission-less evening. there will be a connective thread to the pieces that volition take identify with visuals and storytelling. the Germ Projection is a response to the trend in the American theater toward smaller new plays. "I noticed we were reading fewer of the big (in terms of imaginative telescopic), irreverent, highly theatrical plays we like to produce," says Susan Bernfield, artistic managing director of New Georges. "And realized it'southward because there's so much pressure on playwrights these days to write plays that have pocket-size casts and elementary production elements, plays that are considered produce-able." In response, the company deputed 4 long-time affiliated playwrights to write new plays of scope and take chances, their dream plays, what might be considered "unproduce-able" plays. Early in the process, New Georges deputed iv directors to collaborate with the playwrights, to aid push their big ideas fifty-fifty bigger, and has spent the 2010-xi flavour developing the plays in workshop toward this production. "We asked the artists to challenge usa equally producers," says Bernfield, "and to select for this production the "germ" of their project that includes its most theatrically exciting moments. By producing the most difficult parts, mayhap we tin can evidence that these plays aren't "unproduce-able" at all." Notes: - 1st Produced: Organisations: New Georges 1st Published: - - Music: - To Purchase This Play: If Publisher (to a higher place) is underlined then the play may exist purchased by directly click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: short play Parts: Male: - Female: - Other: - Farther Reference: - I Battled Lenny Ross Synopsis: A new musical nearly the toughest interview of Mike Wallace'due south career. Notes: by Anna Ziegler & Matt Schatz 1st Produced: Organisations: The 35th Marathon Of Comedy Plays 1st Published: - - Music: - To Purchase This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (beneath) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: one act musical Parts: Male person: ii Female: ii Other: - Further Reference: - If Synopsis: - Notes: Role of the Bound Fling: 8 Brand New Plays. F*It Social club presents A program of eight new brusque plays: French Toast And Parsley by Brooke Berman, Drunk by Bekah Brunstetter, A Curt, Sad Biography of the Magician'south Assistant by Ashlin Halfnight, Our Trip to Ohio by Greg Keller, Minotaur Scavenger Huntby Caroline V. McGraw, Come Here by Isaac Oliver, We Take the Music by Mark Schultz, And If by Anna Ziegler. 1st Produced: Irt, 154 Christopher Street #3B 21 Apr 2011 Organisations: - 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (in a higher place) is underlined then the play may be purchased past straight click from the Publisher, otherwise (beneath) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: short play Parts: Male: - Female: - Other: - Further Reference: - In the Same Room Synopsis: A young woman grapples with life and love in the age of Internet dating and cantankerous-country relationships Notes: aka Vinnie 1st Produced: The New Harmony Project 2007 Organisations: - 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined and so the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (beneath) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: - Parts: Male person: 1 Female person: 3 Other: - Further Reference: - Last Match, The The semifinals of the U.S. Open are underway. Sergei Sergeyev, an up-and-coming Russian phenom, and Tim Porter, a great American superstar in the twilight of his career, do battle nether the lights on center court. As the intense, dorsum-and-forth activity unfolds, we go inside the minds of these two boggling players to contemplate athleticism, masculinity and marriage. And by match point, much more has been won and lost than a game of tennis. Notes: Nominated for The Kilroys 2015. The Kilroys is a group of playwrights and producers in LA who publish an annual manufacture survey of excellent new plays past female and trans playwrights. It is a tool for producers committed to ending the systemic underrepresentation of female and trans playwrights in the American theater. 1st Produced: One-time Globe Theatre, San Diego, CA 18 Feb 2016 Organisations: - 1st Published: A href="https://world wide web.oberonbooks.com/anna-ziegler-plays-1.html" target="_blank">Oberon Books (2016) >>> 978-1783193158 Music: - To Purchase This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined so the play may exist purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: comedy drama Parts: Male: 2 Female person: ii Other: - Farther Reference: - Life Science Synopsis: Iv wealthy Washington DC teenagers grapple with identity and growing upwardly against the backdrop of a world that's changing quickly, and which they tin can't quite understand Notes: This was A workshop - not A reviewed production or globe premiere. This play has been read At the Lark theatre. Aka Leftovers 1st Produced: Studio Theatre, NYC 2007 Organisations: Bulldog theatrical 1st Published: Dramatists Play Service Inc, 2008 978-0822222590 Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined and then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (beneath) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Play/Drama Parts: Male: 2 Female: 2 Other: - Further Reference: - Map of Cleaved Drinking glass, A Synopsis: - Notes: part of the Leap Fling: My Best/Worst Appointment Ever 1st Produced: Irt, 154 Christopher Street, 3rd Floor, NY 26 Apr 2012 Organisations: F*IT Club 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: short play Parts: Male: 1 Female person: 1 Other: - Further Reference: - Minotaur, The Synopsis: the Minotaur is a loose adaptation of the myth in which theseus, with the help of Ariadne, kills the Minotaur and steals Ariadne away with him, off Crete, and into an uncertain future. Poetic, quirky and about the vagaries of storytelling, the Minotaur is fix in a timeless present where Ariadne dreams of her wedding ceremony to theseus beingness listed in the New York Times and a chorus consisting of a rabbi, priest and lawyer accept on themes of love, loss, our key selves and forgiveness. Notes: the Minotaur was developed At the Lark Play Development Eye in 2008. 1st Produced: Organisations: Rorschach Theatre Company 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Play/Drama Parts: Male: four Female: 2 Other: - Further Reference: - Novel Synopsis: When a recently widowed non-fiction author attends a business conference in Baltimore , he expects to drink bad coffee and to rehash discussions of the inevitable expiry of modest press publishing in America. But when he discovers a briefing of unusual globe tape holders in the same building, his imagination is sparked Notes: This play has been developed At Catalyst theater And New Georges. Also developed by theater J, PlayLabs At the Playwright's Eye, Clubbed Pollex And the Old Vic. Also: SPF's production was not reviewed or considered A world premiere. 1st Produced: Spf (Summer Play Festival) 2007 Organisations: - 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (higher up) is underlined then the play may be purchased by directly click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Play/Drama Parts: Male person: 5 Female: iv Other: - Further Reference: - Photograph 51 Dna. the combination of those iii letters conjures up tales of science, double helixes, and endless CSI episodes. the intriguing story of Photo 51 is its exploration of how relationships may have played a part in the breakthrough discovery of the construction of DNA. At present, of course, that infamous double helix is so well-known, even a caveman, well, never mind. Suffice information technology to say that agreement the molecular construction of deoxyribonucleic acrid (Deoxyribonucleic acid) was tantamount to unlocking the secret of life. This taut little thriller highlights a scientist whose meticulous research formed the basis of the discovery, just who was essentially ignored and forgotten among the international recognition and awards, including the coveted Nobel Prize. Every once and awhile, 1 hears that a woman scientist was involved, whose work and ideas were usurped, packaged, and submitted by the infamous duo Watson and Crick as totally their own. Photograph 51 bares all by showing what happened among the dedicated scientists, inadvertently or otherwise, in the quest for knowledge, answers, and meaning. the rather cryptic and foreign title refers to the 51st x-ray photo that Rosalind Franklin took as part of her meticulous enquiry. It was apparently this item shot that shed plenty light on the subject to explain the inexplicable formation, helped the scientists grasp the molecular germination enough to make a model, and gave birth to the rock stars of genetic discovery. Who was this hard working woman behind the scenes? Why didn't she get the credit that she deserved? What's the big deal of the helix? Why does it matter? Well, just that it sheds light on the molecular structure of all living matter on the planet. That's all. Photograph 51 adds to the intrigue past zeroing in on the characters, showing their intentions, complex motivations, and regrets. Notes: also produced Ensemble Studio theatre, NYC (2010). Review Excerpts: "Critic'due south Pick! What playwright Anna Ziegler has Achieved in her intriguing portrait of the British scientist Rosalind Franklin is A remarkable residual of scientific subject matter And theatrical storytelling. Franklin's role in the discovery of Dna's double helix-the only woman Among A raft of male person scientists-is here made clear in A play that glows with intelligence And humanity. This is A complex story filled with complex characters that Ziegler tells with clarity And economic system. It'due south A pleasure to be in the presence of such Assured writing. She gives full weight to Franklin's Achievement without Allowing the play to go A feminist tract or turning Franklin's thieving male cohorts And competitors into dyed-in-the-wool villains. This tale of A lone, wondrous woman Amidst A coincidental conspiracy of men makes for compelling theater." - Backstage. "Among the many virtues of Anna Ziegler's. . .satisfying "Photograph 51" is the refUSAl to soften the woman At its center, the British scientist Rosalind Franklin, by making her Annihilation other than formidably, even cocky-sabotagingly, intelligent. . .[the play] offers multiple insights into the sorry And honorable secrets of one detail life." - NY Times. "A powerful new play. . .Ziegler has produced A witty And poignant Business relationship of the controversy surrounding Deoxyribonucleic acid's discovery." - Nature. "Who knew scientific discipline could make for such terrific theatre?" -New Scientist 1st Produced: Joe's Emporium, Mount Ranier, Maryland ten Feb 2008 Organisations: Agile Cultures Theatre 1st Published: Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (higher up) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: 90 min Play/Drama Parts: Male: 5 Female: i Other: - Further Reference: - Ron Swoboda's Wish - Notes: - 1st Produced: - Organisations: - 1st Published: Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (to a higher place) is underlined and so the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Ten Min Parts: Male: 2 Female: - Other: - Farther Reference: - Sad Song Synopsis: - Notes: - 1st Produced: - Organisations: - 1st Published: Independent in: "the Backstage Volume Of New American Short Plays 2004" published by Back Stage, - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: One deed Parts: Male: - Female: - Other: - Further Reference: - Sunlight in a Deli Synopsis: imagines the two subjects of an Edward Hopper painting come to life, fully enlightened that they are in a work of art. Followed past a conversation most art, authority, inspiration and appropriation. Notes: part of Under the Influence 1st Produced: Organisations: the Tank 1st Published: - - Music: - To Purchase This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by straight click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: 1 Human activity Parts: Male person: - Female: - Other: - Further Reference: - To Be Fair Synopsis: On board a prowl liner, Mike and Jim, both teenagers, are befriended by Laurel, a mysterious middle-aged woman, who, before disappearing, teaches them well-nigh friendship and retention Notes: This play has been developed At the Lark theatre, At the Tank theater, by the Fireraisers theatre Company At the Hampstead theatre (London ) And the Birmingham Rep, And by Visitor B At the Belvoir St. theatre in Sydney, Commonwealth of australia 1st Produced: - Organisations: - 1st Published: - - Music: - To Buy This Play: If Publisher (above) is underlined and then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: Play/Drama Parts: Male: - Female: - Other: - Further Reference: - Variations on a Theme Synopsis: Joshua and Apr marry young, and before too long, their marriage crumbles. Northward and G are middle-anile, and real or not real. they lead and counsel April and Joshua and in so doing, observe themselves, and the nagging insistence of lost love. Variations on a theme explores through memory and fantasy how lilliputian we know each other, how easy it is to lose someone, and the way we cling to dearest fifty-fifty though it is the very thing that often brings so much sadness. Notes: Staged readings directed past Ethan McSweeny for Chautauqua theatre Company, July 2008. 1st Produced: Theatreworks' Festival Of New Works, Palo Alto 01 Jul 2010 Organisations: - 1st Published: - - Music: - To Purchase This Play: If Publisher (in a higher place) is underlined then the play may exist purchased past direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies Booksellers: Genre: comedy drama Parts: Male: 2 Female: two Other: - Further Reference: - 
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