Name This Playwright

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Here are some fascinating highlights about a female playwright.  See how far you need to read before you can guess who she is and why it matters.

  • She’s  currently working on a new HBO comedy called HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA
  • She is a writer/producer on the HBO drama IN TREATMENT
  • She is working on a romantic-comedy screenplay for Miramax
  • She’s a winner of the Reva Shiner Playwriting award
  • She is working on two pilots for HBO 
  • She was nominated for a Humanitas award
  • She won a WGA award for her work on the HBO drama IN TREATMENT
  • She has taught playwriting at Yale, where she also earned her B.A. and M.F.A.
  • Her plays include HUMAN VOICES, EMPTY SKY, MIRROR MIRROR, AGAINST THE WALL, VIENNA’S AMAZING and ORPHAN ISLAND
  • She loves country music
  • From a teaching perspective, she recommends studying “who ever moves you and makes you want to write plays”
  • If she were forbidden to write plays, she would want to win Top Chef

So who is she and why does it matter?  This playwright is Sarah Treem and she is the playwright of our next production, A Feminine Ending.  A Feminine Ending is a gentle, bittersweet comedy about a young woman who knows what she wants but not quite how to get it.

A Feminine Ending by Sarah Treem 
February 28 to March 15, 2014

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