Liz Duffy Adams

Liz Duffy Adams is an American playwright who has written many plays including A Fabulous Beast,The Reckless Ruthless, Brutal Charge of It/Train Play, Dog Act, One Big Lie, The Listener, Or, and others.

In 2012, she was rewarded the "Women of Achievement Award" from the Women's Project Theater [1] as well as a 2010 Lily Award and a 2008 Weston Playhouse Music-Theatre Award among other notables.

Early life and education

Adams is an American playwright originally from Ipswich, Massachusetts, though with dual Irish and American citizenship. [2] She has a BFA from NYU's Experimental Theater Wing, and an MFA in Playwriting from Yale School of Drama.[3] She was the 2012–2013 Briggs-Copeland Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard University.[4] She is an alumna of New Dramatists (2001-2008).[5]

Reviews

Charles Isherwood wrote in his New York Times review of her historical play Or, "Ms. Adams fares remarkably well. Her language has a natural period flavor and a formidable wit; her characters possess the spark of fully animated spirits; and she weaves into her story both biographical detail and cultural context with grace."[6]

The DC Theatre Scene review of her Wonders of the Invisible World (originally titled A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World), by Debbie Minter Jackson, says, "Adams has a way of transforming ominous situations into thought provoking entertaining experiences, and she handles the premise of the Salem witch trials with care that ends up being thoughtful, mysterious, and if I dare say – startlingly funny."[7]

Robert Hurwitt wrote in his SF Gate review of her Dog Act, "It's a bright dystopian blend of pop and high culture –– Brecht's Mother Courage as a vaudeville troupe leader wandering a Waiting for Godot world as transmuted through generations of Mad Max–Road Warrior movies with some lingering influences from Peter Pan –– peppered with astonishing and exhilarating eruptions of storytelling and wondrous plays within the play."[8]

Notable works
  • Born with Teeth, scheduled to premiere at the Alley Theater in Houston, directed by Rob Melrose, in spring 2021
  • The Broken Machine is scheduled to premiere at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco, in spring 2021
  • The Salonnières premiered at Greater Boston Stage Company, 2018
  • Or, premiere Women's Project NYC, 2009, starring Maggie Siff; West Coast premiere at Magic Theater, San Francisco, directed by Loretta Greco
  • Wonders of the Invisible World (originally titled A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World) premiered at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, 2012, directed by Kent Nicholson.
  • Dog Act, premiere Shotgun Players Berkeley, 2004
  • One Big Lie (Musical), premiere Crowded Fire, San Francisco, 2005
  • *Wet, or, Isabella The Pirate Queen Enters The Horse Latitudes, premiere Moxie Theatre, San Diego, 2006
  • The Listener, premiere Crowded Fire San Francisco, 2008
  • The Listener of Junk City (Musical) premiere Weston Playhouse, Weston VT, 2008
  • Buccaneers (with music by Ellen Maddow), premiere Children's Theatre Company, Minneapolis, 2012
  • The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It or, the Train Play, premiere Clubbed Thumb NYC, 2002; Crowded Fire, San Francisco 2002
  • A Fabulous Beast, premiere One Dream Theater NYC, 1994, starring Edie Falco

Awards

Awards include a 2012 Women of Achievement award from the Women's Project Theater,[9] a 2010 Lily Award for playwrighting,[10] a 2008 Weston Playhouse Music-Theatre award,[11] a 2006 NYFA award, a 2017 Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council,[12] and the Will Glickman award for Best New Play in 2004 (for Dog Act).[13] She has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony for the arts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists program. She was profiled in "American Theatre" magazine, December 2004.

Selected works

References
  1. "Women of Achievement Honorees - Women's Project Theater". Archived from the original on 9 May 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  2. "Small pirates with big ideas". Archived from the original on 20 January 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  3. "Liz Duffy Adams - Playscripts, Inc". Archived from the original on 7 May 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  4. "Creative Writing". Archived from the original on 4 March 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  5. "Liz Duffy Adams". Archived from the original on 13 December 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  6. Isherwood, Charles (9 November 2009). "All They Need Is Love (and Freedom and Theater) (Published 2009)". The New York Times. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  7. Jackson, Debbie Minter (9 July 2013). "A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World". dctheatrescene.com. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  8. Hurwitt, Robert (25 September 2004). "It's man eat dog-man in a wild world". SFGATE. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  9. "Women's Project Home Page". Archived from the original on 21 October 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  10. "The Lilly Awards". Archived from the original on 15 April 2013. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  11. https://www.westonplayhouse.org/new-works/nma
  12. https://massculturalcouncil.org/gallery/20171586/
  13. https://www.theatrebayarea.org/page/GlickmanAward
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