2011 Resident Playwright
Adam Szymkowicz
Adam SzymkowiczFor the very first time, Chance Theater will have a resident playwright whose work will be featured throughout the year in the On The Radar Series. Our hope is for future resident playwrights to return to have their work featured in both the OTR Series and the Main Season.
We are very excited to introduce you to our 2011 resident playwright… Adam Szymkowicz. Adam’s plays have been produced throughout the U.S., Canada, England, The Netherlands, Germany and Lithuania. His work has been presented or developed at such places as MCC Theater, Ars Nova, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Horizons, LAByrinth Theater Company, Primary Stages, The New Group, Southern Rep, The Lark, Kitchen Dog, Theatre of Note, Naked Stage, Azuka Theater and Studio Dante among others. Plays include Deflowering Waldo, Open Minds, Anne, The Art Machine, Pretty Theft, Food For Fish, Hearts Like Fists, My Base and Scurvy Heart, Herbie, Incendiary, Old Fashioned Cold Fusion, Bee Eater, Temporary Everything, Susan Gets Some Play, Clown Bar, Fat Cat Killers, The Why Overhead, Elsewhere, Where You Can’t Follow and Nerve. His plays are published by Dramatists Play Service and Samuel French. He received a Playwright’s Diploma from The Juilliard School’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program and an MFA from Columbia University where he was the Dean’s Fellow. Szymkowicz is a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Prize winner, a member of the Dramatists Guild, Writer’s Guild of America, Primary Stages’ Dorothy Strelsin New American Writer’s Group, the MCC Playwright’s Coalition and was a founding member of the Ars Nova Play Group. He served as Playwright in Residence at the William Inge Center and was commissioned by South Coast Rep. He is the premiere Resident Playwright at Chance Theater and the first playwright to participate in Bloomington Playwrights Projects’ Square One Series.
This year, Adam will have two of his shows featured in the OTR Series — a staged reading of, Hearts Like Fists, and The Artist. In addition, Adam will have his West Coast premiere of Nerve in Chance Theater’s main season.
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