BIOGRAPHY
Anne Washburn
Anne Washburn is one of the most exciting new voices in the American theatre. Her plays are feasts of imagination, with vivid characters, storylines that veer off in surprising directions, a wry sense of comedy, and a playful love of language – The Communist Dracula Pageant is a spectacular example. Other plays include I Have Loved Strangers (included in an edition of New York Theater Review, edited by Brook Stowe), Apparition (published in New Downtown Now; University of Minnesota Press, edited by Young Jean Lee and Mac Wellman), The Ladies, and The Internationalist (the Gate Theatre in London, published by Playscripts, Inc.), as well as a translation of Euripides' Orestes. Her plays have been produced by 13P, Cherry Lane Theatre, The Civilians, Clubbed Thumb, Dixon Place, Naked Angels, and the Vineyard Theatre in New York. She had workshops with Kretakor, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, Soho Rep, and the Williamstown Theater Festival. Ms. Washburn is an Associated Artist with Obie award winning groups 13P, The Civilians, and New Georges, and is a member of New Dramatists. She received her MFA from NYU and is currently working on commissions from Yale Repertory Theatre and The Civilians.