last week of PT in NYC

photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum www.fluxtheatre.org

Adopt a playwright

http://meadhunter.blogspot.com/2009/05/why-adopting-playwright-is-important.html

only one more week of Pretty Theft

don't miss it.

www.fluxtheatre.org

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.

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.

blogroll et al

I just spent some time trying to fix the blogroll. If you are no longer on it and want to be please let me know. If you are now on it but don't want to be, please let me know that too. I think I did it right but I can't be sure. I read everything on google reader now anyway. Pretty Theft is still up in NYC--two more weeks. Go if you can. I am in MN again, unemployed reading lots of pilots and trying to figure out what to write next. how are you?

New York Theatre Review '09

Should be out any second now.  Be sure to get your copy.

http://culturebot.org/2009/05/01/new-york-theater-review-2009/

Come See Pretty Theft

another good review

http://www.offoffonline.com/reviews.php?id=1603

also coming up

June 16th, Tampa, FL
a reading of Nerve
http://www.jobsitetheater.org/jobside.asp

May 6, NYC
New York Theatre Review party
featuring a short play of mine
http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/71093

another nice review

http://www.thevillager.com/villager_313/stealinghearts.html

more reviews

Neighborbee "I’ve never been involved in a bank heist but if I were, I could never be tasked with the role of Getaway Driver. I can’t navigate with any certainty when the car is required to do above 30 mph on a city street. Ask me to drive at break-neck speed through urban obstacles and then set you down at the end safely and I assure you: I can’t do it. But Adam Szymkowicz can … and in his new play Pretty Theft directed by Angela Astle he shows us how he navigates those narrow streets and dark alleys like a pro." Just Shows To Go You “…quirky-funny but generally unsettling play which is distinguished by a playful Mee-like collage surface and unifying undercurrents of sadness and of danger. I mean no disrespect to the theatrical economy of Angela Astle’s clarifying direction nor to the playwright when I say that the material could be easily shaped into a screenplay: it has indie-movie sensibilities and attitude.” Flavorpill “a sometimes sad, sometimes funny, and at times nostalgic coming-of-age story.” nytheatre.com “Adam Szymkowicz has written a play full of interesting people…The dialogue and humor in this play are excellent…It runs a lean, intermission-less 90 minutes and is very satisfying… This would be good theater for young women not only to see but also to perform.”

the breakdown

Pretty Theft, Flux Theatre Ensemble, New York, NY, April 23-May 17 Nerve, Echo Theatre, St. Louis, MO, June 5-June 20 Food For Fish, Essential Theatre, Atlanta, GA, July 5-August 1 Herbie: Poet of the Wild West, Doorway Arts Ensemble, Washington DC, July 15-July 26 I expect to see you at all the performances.

Early Reviews...more to come

NY Times "disturbing but touching ... Mr. Szymkowicz writes quirky plays about contemporary topics like online dating and gender roles, but there always seems to be something — a knife, a rope, a dead body — in an unexpected place. In “Pretty Theft,” the undercurrent of danger goes beyond quirkiness; it’s more subtle and ultimately more horrifying. The play takes place in a terrifying world where reckless people get hurt, and so do more or less innocent bystanders." Theatre Knights (& Daze): News & Reviews "a near-flawless production that kept me spellbound from start to finish. Indeed, as the play ended, I found I needed several minutes to both dry my eyes and process the elegant beauty of what I had just witnessed." Blogcritics Magazine "To go with its jigsaw-puzzle structure and precision dialogue, Adam Szymkowicz's fine psychological comedy-drama Pretty Theft has pathos, sharp humor, a dash of horror, dancing, and many scene changes. It's the kind of play that demands an exceptional production, and that's just what it gets at the Access Theatre on lower Broadway."

photos from dress rehearsal

all photos Isaiah Tanenbaum www.fluxtheatre.org

PT

Preview tonight!!!!

Broadway Bullet interview

here

interview over at nytheatre mike

http://nytheatremike.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/adam-szymkowicz-examines-some-pretty-theft/

Todd Olson to Daisey--Balance my budget

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2009/04/todd-olson-american-stage-theatre.sht

extremely arresting mini interviews with Pretty Theft folks

http://fluxtheatreensemble.blogspot.com/2009/04/trailer-for-pretty-theft.html

Matt Freeman interviews me at nytheatre.com

about Pretty Theft and about stealing.

http://www.nytheatrecast.com/episode.php?t=282

what is up.

So I'm in New York, rehearsing Pretty Theft. I'm very excited about this one. There are a lot of elements that have to come together but from what I'm seeing at rehearsal, it's going to be a production I'm very proud of. Which is good because it seems like a lot of people are coming to see it. I myself will be there the 23, 24, 25 so if you're coming then we should have a drink after. I've been catsitting on Staten Island and this weekend my parents are having their 40th anniversary up in CT. Kristen flies in tomorrow. A reading with Packawallop Monday. And I have interviews and meetings next week I'm trying to figure out how to fit in to my days. All good things. What are you up to?

Listening to Susan Louise O'Connor talking here

http://www.broadwaybullet.com/?p=659

where I will be tomorrow night

http://fluxtheatreensemble.blogspot.com/2009/04/poetic-larceny-april-13th.html

I'm in New York

rehearsing.

That is all.

reading of a new play of mine

Packawallop Productions is proud to kick off The Lounge Series. Monday, April 20, 2009 7:30pm - 9:30pm The 14th Street Theatre 344 East 14th Street, 2nd Floor New York, NY The Lounge Series is a program of new works of film and theater presented throughout the year in the style you've come to expect from Packawallop - stylish, sassy ... and, naturally, with some cocktails. Please join us at our first Lounge on Monday April 20th where we will present Adam Szymkowicz's new play "Elsewhere" which was specially written for Packawallop Community Artists Susan Louise O'Connor, Polly Lee and Travis York. It will be directed by Scott Ebersold. "When Teddy comes to Celia’s house to deliver a package, he doesn’t expect to be invited for dinner. When he comes to dinner, he doesn’t expect to be invited to live there. When he starts to live there, he doesn’t expect to be drugged or buried. And he certainly doesn’t expect Amanda, nor she him. A play about the unexpected, unearthed and elsewhere." Reservations are essential, please email info (at) packawallop.org to secure a seat. We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers!

Don't be so boring

Found Via Matt J

Don't make Boring Theatre--

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2007/mar/21/features11.g2

What is commercial?

From Daniel Kuney: "At the end of the day, I think producers, like Mr. Rudin, and artists, like Duncan Sheik and Lin-Manuel Miranda, achieve success by pursuing their own visions, and not by trying to conform to someone else’s idea of what makes a good movie or musical. For those of you who are sitting down at the piano for the first time or who are contemplating a career as a producer, I would encourage you to do the same."

New York Theatre Review

Event May 6.  I have a short play in the book and in the event, I think.

NYTR events are always a lot of fun.

Mark your calendar.

http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#Event/71093