Anne Washburn
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Anne Washburn is an American playwright.
Life
Washburn graduated from Reed College{{Cite web|title = The Electric Mr. Burns|url = http://www.reed.edu/reed_magazine/december2013/articles/features/washburn.html|website = Reed Magazine|accessdate = 2015-08-19}} and from New York University, with an M.F.A.{{Cite web|url=https://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/anne-washburn|title=Anne Washburn|website=www.whiting.org|accessdate=Jul 18, 2019}}
Her plays have been produced in New York City by Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Vineyard Theatre, Dixon Place, and Soho Repertory Theatre—and elsewhere by American Repertory Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, New Jersey's Two River Theater Company, Washington DC's Studio Theater, and London's Gate Theatre and Almeida Theatre.{{Cite web|url=http://actorstheatre.org/cast-crew/anne-washburn/|title=Actors Theater of Louisville: Anne Washburn|accessdate=Jul 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123023720/http://actorstheatre.org/cast-crew/anne-washburn/|archive-date=January 23, 2011|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://newdramatists.org/anne-washburn|title=Anne Washburn|website=New Dramatists|accessdate=Jul 18, 2019}}
Her 2012 play Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play received a Drama League Award nomination for Outstanding Production and was praised by The New York Times as "downright brilliant."{{Cite news|title = 'Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,' at Playwrights Horizons|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/theater/reviews/mr-burns-a-post-electric-play-at-playwrights-horizons.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2013-09-15|access-date = 2015-08-19|issn = 0362-4331|first = Ben|last = Brantley}} Her play A Devil at Noon was featured at the 2011 Humana Festival of New American Plays and the play Sleep Rock Thy Brain—written with Rinne Groff and Lucas Hnath—was featured at the 2013 Festival.{{Cite web|url=http://actorstheatre.org/2012/09/19/actors-theatre-is-flying-high-with-sleep-rock-thy-brain-slated-to-premiere-during-the-37th-annual-humana-festival-of-new-american-plays/|title=Actors Theatre of Louisville: Sleep Rock Thy Brain, slated to Premiere during the 37th Annual Humana Festival|accessdate=Jul 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927042243/http://actorstheatre.org/2012/09/19/actors-theatre-is-flying-high-with-sleep-rock-thy-brain-slated-to-premiere-during-the-37th-annual-humana-festival-of-new-american-plays|archive-date=September 27, 2012|url-status=dead}} In 2015, 10 Out of 12 played at the Soho Rep theater.{{Cite news|title = Anne Washburn Brings Backstage Drama to Center Stage in '10 Out of 12'|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/theater/anne-washburn-brings-backstage-drama-to-center-stage-in-10-out-of-12.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2015-05-29|access-date = 2015-08-19|issn = 0362-4331|first = Alexis|last = Soloski}}
Washburn is a member of 13P,{{Cite web|url=http://13p.org/|title=HOME|website=13p.org|accessdate=Jul 18, 2019}} an associated artist with The Civilians and New Georges, and an alumna of New Dramatists. Her work has been published in American Theatre magazine.
Awards and honors
- 2007 Guggenheim fellowship{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/search_gcse/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Search Results|accessdate=Jul 18, 2019}}
- 2015 Whiting Award
- 2015 PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award, American Playwright in Mid-Career{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-pen-announces-award-winners-and-shortlists-20150513-story.html |title=PEN announces award-winners and shortlists |work=Los Angeles Times |author=Carolyn Kellogg |date=May 13, 2015 |accessdate=May 14, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/2015-pen-literary-award-winners |title=2015 PEN Literary Award Winners |work=pen.org |author= |date= 11 May 2015|accessdate=May 14, 2015}}
- 2016 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts in Theatre{{Cite web|url=https://herbalpertawards.org/artist/2016/anne-washburn|title=Anne Washburn | The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts|date=Apr 29, 2016|website=herbalpertawards.org|accessdate=Jul 18, 2019}}
Plays
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- 2019 Shipwreck{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/feb/20/shipwreck-review-political-drama-takes-trump-seriously-anne-washburn-almeida|access-date=9 January 2021|title=Shipwreck review – vital political drama takes Trump seriously | Theatre | The Guardian|newspaper=The Guardian |date=20 February 2019 |last1=Billington |first1=Michael }}
- 2018 Little Bunny Foo Foo
- 2017 The Twilight Zone
- 2016 Antlia Pneumatica
- 2015 Iphigenia in Aulis, a transadaptation, based on Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis
- 2015 10 Out of 12
- 2012 Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play
- 2011 A Devil at Noon
- 2010 The Small
- 2010 Orestes, a transadaptation, based on Euripides' Orestes
- 2008 October/November
- 2006 I Have Loved Strangers
- 2004 The Internationalist
- 2004 The Ladies
- 2003 Apparition
- 2001 The Communist Dracula Pageant
- 1999 Everything Not Forbidden Is Permitted (Or Vice Versa)
- 1998 Refreshment of the Spirit
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References
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External links
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|video1= [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR01Ez6kFZw Interview with Anne Washburn on Mr. Burns, a post-electric play], Playwrights Horizons, August 30, 2013
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- [https://archive.today/20130415085617/http://www.lortel.org/LLA_archive/index.cfm?search_by=people&keyword=name&first=Anne&last=Washburn&middle= Anne Washburn] at the Internet Off Broadway Database
- [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsW/washburn-anne.html doollee.com: Plays by Anne Washburn]
- [http://www.whiting.org/awards/winners/anne-washburn#/ Profile and Production History at The Whiting Foundation]
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Category:American women dramatists and playwrights
Category:Writers from Berkeley, California
Category:Tisch School of the Arts alumni
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Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American dramatists and playwrights