David Adjmi

2010 Winner in
Drama

David Adjmi’s plays include Marie Antoinette (New York premiere at Soho Rep, 2013), 3C (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, 2012), Stunning (premiered at Lincoln Center Theater, 2009), The Evildoers (developed at the Sundance Institute and Royal Court Theater and premiered at Yale Rep, 2008), Strange Attractors (2003), Elective Affinities (which premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company) and Caligula. He attended Sarah Lawrence College, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and The Juilliard School. His plays have earned a Bush Artist’s fellowship, and Jerome, McKnight, Cherry Lane Theatre, and Kesselring fellowships as well as a Helen Merrill Award, a Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Award, a Lecomte du Nouy Award, and a Steinberg Playwright Award. He is at work on a book for HarperCollins which he calls “a hybrid piece, but perhaps best described as a memoir.” He lives in Brooklyn.

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Reviews & Praise

“Impeccable timeliness . . . One cannot deny how it speaks to today's class war between the haves and have-notes . . . Marie Antoinette is bracing, fresh theater.” —New Haven Register

“David Adjmi’s pivotal work . . . he resembles artists as diverse as Luis Bunuel and Rainer Werner Fassbinder . . . Adjmi’s brilliance is to use trashy vernacular speech to allude to the way history trashes us.” —Hilton Als, The New Yorker [on Marie Antoinette]

“A deft touch for both comedy and drama . . . Richly defined characters tackle sensitive topics insightfully and often to incendiary effect. David Adjmi is quickly building a reputation for unvarnished presentations of offbeat and disturbing themes.” —Variety [on Stunning]

Selected Works

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