SHARR WHITE
Sharr White’s plays have been developed or produced at theatres across the country and Europe, including MCC Theatre, Nationaltheater Mannheim, The Magic Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Marin Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater’s Directors Lab, Key West Theatre Festival, and more.
White’s Six Years premiered at the 30th Anniversary Humana Festival of New American Plays, with following productions at Salt Lake Acting Company, Chicago’s New Leaf Theatre, and others.
Sunlight was commissioned by South Coast Repertory and subsequently received a National New Play Network rolling world premiere, featuring productions at Marin Theatre Company; Seattle’s ArtsWest; Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis; and New Jersey Rep.
The Other Place was given its world premiere Off-Broadway by MCC Theatre at the Lucille Lortel, featuring Laurie Metcalf (Lucille Lortel, Obie awards) and directed by Joe Mantello (nom. Lucille Lortel); and was subsequently presented with its European premiere at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where it is currently running in rep. The Other Place is a recipient of the 2010 Playwrights First Award; the 2011 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Visions Fund Award; and was an Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.
White's newest play, Annapurna, was commissioned by South Coast Repertory, appeared at SCR's 2011 Pacific Playwrights Festival, premiered at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in November, 2011, and was a 2012 finalist for the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award.
White has also been honored with a Dr. Henry and Lillian Nesburn Award as part of the Julie Harris Award in Playwriting (The Escape Velocity of Savages); a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (Six Years); and the 2009 Skye Cooper New American Play Prize (Sunlight).
White will be a playwright-in-residence during the 2012 season at the Cape Cod Theatre Project.
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White’s Six Years premiered at the 30th Anniversary Humana Festival of New American Plays, with following productions at Salt Lake Acting Company, Chicago’s New Leaf Theatre, and others.
Sunlight was commissioned by South Coast Repertory and subsequently received a National New Play Network rolling world premiere, featuring productions at Marin Theatre Company; Seattle’s ArtsWest; Phoenix Theatre in Indianapolis; and New Jersey Rep.
The Other Place was given its world premiere Off-Broadway by MCC Theatre at the Lucille Lortel, featuring Laurie Metcalf (Lucille Lortel, Obie awards) and directed by Joe Mantello (nom. Lucille Lortel); and was subsequently presented with its European premiere at the Nationaltheater Mannheim, where it is currently running in rep. The Other Place is a recipient of the 2010 Playwrights First Award; the 2011 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Visions Fund Award; and was an Outer Critics Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play.
White's newest play, Annapurna, was commissioned by South Coast Repertory, appeared at SCR's 2011 Pacific Playwrights Festival, premiered at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco in November, 2011, and was a 2012 finalist for the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award.
White has also been honored with a Dr. Henry and Lillian Nesburn Award as part of the Julie Harris Award in Playwriting (The Escape Velocity of Savages); a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (Six Years); and the 2009 Skye Cooper New American Play Prize (Sunlight).
White will be a playwright-in-residence during the 2012 season at the Cape Cod Theatre Project.
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PRESS
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