Steven Drukman
Playwright
World premieres include Pru Payne (Arizona Theatre Company, SpeakEasy Stage, Boston); Going to See the Kid (Merrimack Rep); Death of the Author (Geffen Playhouse); The Prince of Atlantis (South Coast Rep); The Innocents (Asolo Rep); The Bullet Round (Arena Stage, Portland, OR); In This Corner (The Old Globe, winner of the Critics Circle Best New Play); Another Fine Mess (Portland Center Stage, Pulitzer Prize nomination); Going Native (Long Wharf Theatre); Flattery Will Get You (Connecticut Rep); more. Drukman’s work has been developed by the Mark Taper Forum, Manhattan Theatre Club, Intiman Theatre, Sundance Theatre Lab, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, and many others. As a journalist, Drukman wrote for The New York Times for many years, as well as The Nation, The Village Voice, International Herald Tribune, was Senior Editor of American Theatre magazine, and served as performance reviewer for Artforum and WNYC-FM. As an actor, Drukman has been directed on stage by Richard Foreman, Anne Bogart, Maria Irene Fornes and Eric Simonson, and was a member of the Organic Theater Company in Chicago, where he won a Jeff Award. He received his Ph.D. from NYU, where he teaches playwriting.