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Book SynopsisChristopher Shinn (b. 1975) is an American playwright from New York. His plays include
Now or Later (shortlisted for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play),
Dying City (Pulitzer Prize finalist),
Where Do We Live (winner of an Obie in Playwriting),
An Opening In Time, Teddy Ferrara,
Picked,
Four,
What Didn't Happen,
On the Mountain,
Other People, and
The Coming World. His adaptation of
Hedda Gabler premiered on Broadway (American Airlines Theatre), and he has written short plays for Naked Angels (Democracy Project), the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, the Bush Theatre (
Sixty-Six Books), and Headlong (
Decade). His work has been premiered by Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, the Vineyard Theatre, South Coast Rep, the Goodman, the Royal Court, and the Soho Theatre, and later produced around the world. Christopher Shinn's awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship in Playwriting, a grant from the NEA/TCG Residency Program, an Obie in Playwriting and the Robert Chesley Award.
Trade ReviewA playwright who writes with unshowy depth and unforced menace on a challenging subject * New York Magazine *
Mr Shinn sees and hears people as they are, and his greatest strength is his ability to reproduce onstage the clumsy poetry of natural human interaction. That skill is rarer than you might think. * New York Times *
