Clare Barron


Clare Barron is a playwright and actor from Wenatchee, Washington.[1] She won the 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting.[2]

Career

Barron graduated from Yale University.[3]

Clubbed Thumb Summerworks produced her play Baby Screams Miracle in 2013.[4] Barron was a member of Soho Rep's 2013/14 Writer/Director Lab, where she developed her play You Got Older.[5] She received the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship in 2014, and Page 73 produced You Got Older in fall 2014. The production was directed by Anne Kauffman.[6] In 2015, You Got Older was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. She was featured on the 2015 Kilroys' List.[7] Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company produced her play Baby Screams Miracle early in 2017.[8] In 2016, a Bushwick Starr production of I'll Never Love Again was a New York Times Critics' Pick.[9] Barron's play Dance Nation, which was the winner of the 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, will receive its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons in April 2018.[10]

She currently lives in Brooklyn.

Honors

  • Whiting Award in Drama, 2017[11]
  • Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 2017, Dance Nation[12]
  • Relentless Award, 2015, Dance Nation[13]
  • Obie Award for Playwriting, 2015, You Got Older
  • Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, 2014[14]
  • Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, 2014

Plays

  • Dance Nation
  • I'll Never Love Again
  • You Got Older
  • Baby Screams Miracle
  • Solar Plexus
  • Dirty Crusty
  • a boy put this girl in a cage with a dog and the dog killed the girl

References

  1. ↑ "Clare Barron". New Dramatists. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  2. ↑ "2015 | Obie Awards". Obie Awards. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  3. ↑ Soloski, Alexis (October 22, 2014). "Clare Barron Discusses Her New Play, 'You Got Older'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  4. ↑ "SUMMERWORKS 2013 | clubbed thumb". www.clubbedthumb.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  5. ↑ "Introducing W/D Lab Member…Clare Barron! | Soho Rep". sohorep.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  6. ↑ "Page 73 Productions " You Got Older". www.page73.org. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  7. ↑ "THE LIST 2015 | The Kilroys". The Kilroys. April 27, 2015. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  8. ↑ "Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company – Event". www.woollymammoth.net. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  9. ↑ Brantley, Ben (February 26, 2016). "Review: 'I'll Never Love Again,' From a Teenage Girl's Diary". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  10. ↑ Editors, American Theatre (March 7, 2017). "Clare Barron's 'Dance Nation' Wins Blackburn Prize". AMERICAN THEATRE. Retrieved 2017-03-21.
  11. ↑ "Whiting Awards". www.whiting.org. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
  12. ↑ "2017 Winner | The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize". www.blackburnprize.org. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
  13. ↑ Editors, American Theatre (November 9, 2015). "Clare Barron and Sarah DeLappe Win Inaugural Relentless Award". AMERICAN THEATRE. Retrieved 2017-03-24.
  14. ↑ "Paula Vogel Playwriting Award | Vineyard Theatre". Vineyard Theatre. Retrieved 2017-03-23.
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