Authors
Andy Beach
Paula Bernstein
Alexandra Chasin
Erin Courtney
Anthony Dardis
Adam Davies
Jill Dearman
Adam Fawer
Marian Fontana
Andy Greenwald
Alex Halberstadt
Ann Marie Healy
Anna Lappe
Bryan Mealer
Aimee Molloy
Aaron Naparstek
Amanda Petrusich
Margo Rabb
Ann Rittenberg
Alexandra Schwartz
Jacob Slichter
Alison Smith
Amy Sohn
Susan Gregory Thomas
Jonah Winter
Alice Wu
Adam Zucker
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| Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb
Erin Courtney
March 2007; ISBN:0970904622
Edited by Maria Striar, Erin Setrick
Clubbed Thumb, the Obie Award-winning downtown theatre company, has made it their mission since 1996 to produce funny, strange, and provocative new plays. This anthology contains seven thought-provoking, edgy, and entertaining works that have been developed and produced by Clubbed Thumb. Playwrights include Adam Bock, Sheila Callaghan, Erin Courtney, Lisa D'Amour, Rinne Groff, Anne Marie Healy, and Carson Kreitzer.
"This anthology represents the jazziest, most edgy writers in contemporary American drama today. And Clubbed Thumb has more nerve, more guts, more class per square inch than any not-for-profit small theatre in New York. Reading these writers makes me want to go back to my own computer and try harder, dare more, and storm the barricades for funding for this rising generation." --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer-winning author of How I Learned to Drive
"American playwriting is undergoing something of a renaissance, and Clubbed Thumb is one of the companies at its center." --Jason Grote, New York Press
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| New Downtown Now: An Anthology Of New Theater From Downtown New York
Erin Courtney
July 2006; ISBN: 0816647313
Edited by Young Jean Lee and Mac Wellman
At a time when most serious drama being written and produced for the American stage aspires only to mainstream acceptance and high-toned mediocrity, an innovative new generation of playwrights based in New York City has emerged, crafting works that challenge and undermine the conventional structure, language, and characterization of commercial theater while rejecting outdated notions of the avant-garde. New Downtown Now brings together ten new works that exemplify the playfulness, excitement, and possibilities of the theater. Characterized by fragmenting structure, hypnotic rhythms, kaleido-scopic imagery, unpredictable characters, and lyrical language, these plays resemble puzzles from which the writers are teasing revelations. Though disparate in subject matter and style, with characters ranging from a sushi chef to a soldier and settings from a taxicab to a live television broadcast, these highly original plays share a commitment to formal experimentation that places them beyond the psychological clichés of the majority and the cold condescension of postmodernism. The anthology includes Interim by Barbara Cassidy; Tragedy: a tragedy by Will Eno; Nine Come by Elana Greenfield; Shufu-Sachiko and Enoshima Island by Madelyn Kent; The Appeal by Young Jean Lee; The Vomit Talk of Ghosts by Kevin Oakes; Ajax (por nobody) by Alice Tuan; Apparition, an uneasy play of the underknown by Anne Washburn; Demon Baby by Erin Courtney. Mac Wellman is the author of numerous plays and the recipient of three Obie awards, most recently in 2003 for lifetime achievement. He is professor of playwriting at Brooklyn College. Young Jean Lee is a playwright and director, and member of the Obie award-winning company 13P. Jeffrey M. Jones is a playwright and curator of the Obie award-winning Little Theater at Tonic in New York.
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