Amy Herzog

2011 Winner in
Drama

Amy Herzog’s plays include After the Revolution (2010) (Williamstown Theater Festival; Playwrights Horizons; Lilly Award), 4000 Miles (2011) (Lincoln Center; Obie Award for the Best New American Play; Pulitzer Prize Finalist), The Great God Pan (2012) (Playwrights Horizons), and Belleville (2013) (Yale Rep; New York Theatre Workshop; Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist; Drama Desk Nomination). Amy is a recipient of the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill, the Joan and Joseph Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity, and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at NYTW and an alumna of Youngblood, Play Group at Ars Nova, and the SoHo Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwriting at Bryn Mawr and Yale. MFA, Yale School of Drama.

Photo Credit:
Zack DeZon
Reviews & Praise

“Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like The Great God Pan. It is provocative and subtle, slowly, carefully revelatory, sweetly moving, thought-provoking, funny and insightful.” —The New York Observer

“A quietly devastating play . . . Both a perceptive drama depicting the sudden fraying of a young marriage and a nail-biting psychological thriller . . . Belleville is among the most suspenseful plays I've seen in years.” —Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

“A funny, moving new play . . . 4000 Miles is a quiet meditation on mortality. But it's hardly a downer: Ms. Herzog's altogether wonderful drama also illuminates how companionship can make life meaningful, moment by moment, in death's discomforting shadow.” —The New York Times

“After the Revolution is a smart, funny and provocative play . . . Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favor of richly detailed people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their consciences.” —Variety

Selected Works

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From the Selection Committee

Of Herzog's first two plays, the Whiting selectors said, “The relationships are authentic, difficult, complex, funny, frustrating, real. Here is a voice of her generation, generous about, if somewhat skeptical of, the passionate political debate that fueled meaning in her grandparents’ lives.”

Outside Links
Profile (Time Out NY)
Interview (American Theatre)