Adam Szymkowicz

May 26, 2009

Pretty Theft is over but don't despair. Here come some more shows of mine. May 28-June 28, Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, FL, my short play Snow. (production #12 or so of this play)

July 10-26 Echo Theatre, St. Louis, MO, a production of Nerve (production #5)

June 16th, Jobsite Theater, Tampa, FL, a reading of Nerve

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July 5-August 1, Essential Theatre, Atlanta, GA, a production of Food For Fish. (production #8)

July 15-July 26, Doorway Arts Ensemble in the DC Fringe, Washington DC, a production Herbie: Poet of the Wild West. (production #1)

If you can't make any of those, but don't want to feel left out, Nerve and Food For Fish are published here and here. Also found at Amazon and other fine online bookstores. Also I have a short play in the NYTR '09. Get your copy soon.

May 23, 2009

another summer show

I also have a short play at City Theatre in FL opening May 28

http://www.citytheatre.com/in_theatres.htm

Empire

Headed to NYC for a couple days to work on a play, and see Coraline.

May 20, 2009

your favorites please

In response (sort of) to the conversation going on over here I would like to make a list of some of my favorite female playwrights who I would like to see produced more. Please add your own favorites in the comments section. In no particular order, an incomplete list Kia Corthron Annie Baker Anne Marie Healy Anne Washburn Lisa D'Amour Liz Meriwether Liz Flahive Bekah Brunstetter Boo Killabrew Kristen Palmer Julia Cho Crystal Skillman Gina Gionfriddo Lucy Thurber Jenny Schwartz Sheila Callaghan Brooke Berman who else?

also this summer

These folks are doing a couple short plays of mine in Chicago July 17-August 9

http://www.lightsouttheatre.org/

May 16, 2009

summer shows

Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pretty Theft. Tonight and tomorrow, last two performances of Pretty Theft in New York. (production #4 of the play) June 5-June 20 Echo Theatre, St. Louis, MO, a production of Nerve (production #5) June 16th, Jobsite Theater, Tampa, FL, a reading of Nerve July 5-August 1, Essential Theatre, Atlanta, GA, a production of Food For Fish. (production #8) July 15-July 26, Doorway Arts Ensemble in the DC Fringe, Washington DC, a production Herbie: Poet of the Wild West. (production #1) If you can't make any of those, but don't want to feel left out, Nerve and Food For Fish are published here and here. Also found at Amazon and other fine online bookstores.

May 15, 2009

Pretty Theft sold out last night

get your tickets now. www.fluxtheatre.org

May 13, 2009

from Move On

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May 12, 2009

last week of PT in NYC

photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum www.fluxtheatre.org

May 8, 2009

my actual bio

ADAM SZYMKOWICZ graduated in May of 2007 from The Juilliard School's Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. In 2004, he received his playwriting MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. His work has been produced throughout the U.S., and in Canada, England, The Netherlands and Lithuania. His plays have been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Lark, Kitchen Dog, HotINK, Theatre of Note and Studio Dante among others. Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Open Minds, Anne, The Art Machine, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, Herbie, Incendiary, Old Fashioned Cold Fusion, Bee Eater, Temporary Everything, Susan Gets Some Play, Fat Cat Killers and Nerve. Several of his plays have been published by Dramatists Play Service. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and was a founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group. For more, go to www.adamszymkowicz.com.

Nerve in St. Louis

http://broadwayworld.com/article/Szymkowiczs_Dark_Romantic_Comedy_NERVE_Plays_6520_At_Echo_Theatre_Company_20090508

The bio is wrong, but I guess that happens. I never claimed any of those folks produced me.
Update: It's been fixed.

May 4, 2009

Hart

"I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no." — Moss Hart My friend Anna told me about this quote. It's a good one. I've always found it to be true.