Field-Of-Study: Drama and Performance Art

Brighde Mullins is a playwright whose work explores the possibilities of language onstage and ways to tell stories that have never been told. She has written of the demi-monde of the outsider, and has a fascination with landscape and with ecology, the dictates of biology and historical circumstance, and often writes of the Mojave Desert,

Anne Washburn’s work includes Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Internationalist, Little Bunny Foo Foo, The Small, and an adaptation of Euripides’ Orestes, and has been produced by 13P, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, London’s Gate Theatre,  and New York City’s Soho

Jordan Harrison grew up on an island near Seattle and currently lives in Brooklyn. His plays include Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Amazons and Their Men (Off Broadway at Clubbed Thumb), Act a Lady (2006 Humana Festival, Portland Center Stage), Finn in the Underworld (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Museum Play (Washington Ensemble Theatre), Kid-Simple (2004

Thomas Bradshaw’s newest play, The Bereaved, will premiere in New York in September 2009 at The Wild Project. In 2008, two of his plays were premiered:  Southern Promises, at Performance Space 122 in September, and Dawn, at The Flea Theater in November, and both were listed among the Best Performances of Stage and Screen for 2008

Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. Maxwell studied acting at Illinois State University. In Chicago, he was a founder of the Cook County Theater Department. He is now the artistic director of New York City Players and a resident writer at New Dramatists. In addition to his Guggenheim Fellowship, Maxwell

Holly Hughes began her performance career in New York’s East Village WOW Café, which described itself as a “home for wayward girls,” in 1981, after receiving a B.A. from Kalamazoo College. Her early work, such as The Well Of Horniness, Dress Suits to Hire, and The Lady Dick, married a camp aesthetic to an anarchic

Cynthia Hopkins is the recipient of the 2007 Alpert Award in Theater, honoring her work as a writer, composer, performer, multi‐instrumentalist, and theater artist. She is the co‐founder and artistic director of the ensemble company Accinosco, which she formed in 2004—a collective of performing artists, designers, and musicians dedicated to creating groundbreaking original works that