Keith Reddin
Keith Reddin's plays include All the Rage, Some Brighter Distance, Too Much Memory, Life and Limb, Rum and Coke, Big Time, Nebraska, Life During Wartime, Brutality of Fact, Almost Blue, All the Rage, But Not for Me, Frame 312, Human Error and The Missionary Position. Mr. Reddin also wrote several adaptations including Molière's The Imagery Invalid, Thornton Wilder's Heaven’s My Destination, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Richboy and Aleksandr Buravsky’s The Russian Teacher. Mr. Reddin's adaptation of Mikhail Shatrov's Maybe was presented at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, England in April 1993, starring Vanessa Redgrave. Mr. Reddin has been awarded the Charles MacArthur Fellowship (1983), an NEA Playwriting Fellowship (1984), the San Diego Critics Circle Award for Best New Play (1989 and 1990), the Joseph Kesselring Award (1990), a Drama-Logue Award (1990), the Helen Merrill Award (2006) and the New York Fringe Festival’s Outstanding New Play Award (2008). His film credits include All the Rage (with Joan Allen and Gary Sinise), The Heart of Justice, Bad Boys, Milken and a film adaptation of his play Big Time for American Playhouse on PBS.
"A smart, sassy skewering of the back-room machinations of presidential politics, where personal rivalries and agendas can derail the larger mission . . . cynical humor that recognizes that when winning is the sole concern, no one is above a little double dealing, skullduggery and betrayal." —Pittsburgh Tribune [on The Missionary Position]
"People who want to kill people may not be the craziest people in the world. They may be sitting at a nearby desk, living next door to you or looking back at you in the mirror . . . All the Rage investigates rage of the free-floating, menacing kind . . . [Reddin's] powerful, often hilarious displays of pent-up hostility ingeniously bring into play devices of opera and classical theater." —The New York Times
"In Brutality of Fact, the playwright continues to plumb the void of modern life and to expose our attempts to fill them. Like most of Reddin's work, Brutality is written in brief, seamless, rapid-fire scenes . . . full of smart, snappy dialogue." —Chicago Sun-Times
Selected Works
- Print Books
- LA Theatre Works (Audio Recording)
