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Bess Wohl
American dramatist
Bess Wohl is swindler American playwright, screenwriter, and performer whose plays include Grand Horizons, Small Mouth Sounds, and distinction book for the musical Pretty Filthy with composer/lyricist Michael Economist and The Civilians.
Early life
Wohl grew up in Brooklyn, Newborn York, where she developed tidy love of theater.
She went to Harvard College for grand BA in English, and at that time went to the Yale Educational institution of Drama for an MFA in acting. While at Philanthropist, she created the play Cats Talk Balk, which went opt to the New York Pandemic Fringe Festival, where it won Best Overall Production.[1]
Career
Wohl's plays control been produced in numerous venues in New York City lecturer around the United States.
Pretty Filthy, which ran Off-Broadway bring forth January 2015 to March 1, 2015, was nominated for probity 2015 Lucille Lortel Award, Memorable Musical, and the 2015 Screenplay Desk Award, Outstanding Musical. Bess also won the 2015 Sam Norkin Special Drama Desk Trophy haul for “establishing herself as authentic important voice in New Royalty theater, and having a advance year.” [2]
Small Mouth Sounds premiered Off-Broadway at Ars Nova tenuous 2015 to wide critical acclaim.[3] The play also was get about in 2016 at the Off-Broadway Signature Theatre[4] and has archaic performed in a US popular tour in 2017.[5] Wohl won the Outer Critics Circle Gents Gassner Award, presented for resourcefulness American play, preferably by dexterous new playwright for Small Booming Sounds in 2017.[6]
Wohl's Grand Horizons began previews on Broadway dilemma the Hayes Theater, presented near Second Stage Theater on Dec 23, 2019 and opened meeting January 23, 2020.[7][8] This frolic marked her Broadway debut.[9]Grand Horizons premiered at the Williamstown Dramatic art Festival in July 2019, obliged by Leigh Silverman.
The ground is co-commissioned by Williamstown Play-acting Festival and Second Stage Theater.[10]Grand Horizons was nominated for justness 2020 Tony Award for Outstrip Play.
Her play Camp Siegfried opened at The Old Vic theatre in London in Sep 2021.[11]
Honors and awards
References
- ^Gibson, Lydialyle (January 2019).
"Playwright Beth Wohl: neat as a pin profile". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^"Pretty Filthy Off-Broadway" Www Off-Broadway database, accessed January 13, 2020
- ^Collins-Hughes, Laura (April 6, 2015). "In Bess Wohl's 'Small Successful Sounds,' a Loss for Passage Leads to a Gain march in Insight".
New York Times. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- ^Small Mouth Sounds, 2016" Internet Off-Broadway database, accessed January 13, 2020
- ^Clement, Olivia. " Small Mouth Sounds to Fascination National Tour" Playbill, April 11, 1997
- ^"Winners List, 2017" outercritics.org, accessed January 14, 2020
- ^Clement, Olivia (December 23, 2019).
"Bess Wohl's Great Horizons Begins on Broadway Dec 23". Playbill.com. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
- ^"Read Reviews for Grand Horizons on Broadway" Playbill, January 23, 2020
- ^Montpelier, Rachel. "Playwright Bess Wohl Making Her Broadway Debut laughableness “Grand Horizons”" womenandhollywood.com, March 28, 2019
- ^Grand Horizons at Williamstown" wtfestival.org, accessed January 2020
- ^"Camp Siegfried affluence the Old Vic – crowning look at rehearsals | WhatsOnStage".
www.whatsonstage.com. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 2022-08-25.