Andy Bragen, a graduate of Brown University’s MFA Program in Literary Arts, is the winner of the 2008 Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission. Other honors include a Tennessee Williams Fellowship from the Sewanee: The University of the South, a Jerome Fellowship, a New Voices Fellowship from Ensemble Studio Theatre, a Dramatists Guild Fellowship, and residencies at Millay Colony and Blue Mountain Center. In Spite of The Devil (formerly Spuyten Duyvil), which Andy developed at the 2004 Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, will be produced by Brown/Trinity Playwrights Rep. in July 2008. Greater Messapia was produced at Queens Theatre in the Park in March 2004. Also a translator, Andy works directly from French and Spanish, and with a co-translator from the Japanese. His co-translations from the Japanese have been workshopped at the last two Playlabs Conferences at the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis. Vengeance Can Wait, workshopped at Playlabs in 2006, was produced at PS122 in April 2008. Other plays and translations have been seen and heard at numerous theatres in New York and elsewhere, including The Guthrie Theatre, Ars Nova, Rattlestick, LAByrinth, EST, Repertorio Español, Soho Think Tank, NYU’s hotINK Festival, The Illusion Theatre, The Aurora Theatre and the Lark Theatre.
More information is available at www.andybragen.com.
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