Plays include MARROW, part of (IM)PULSE, Spectrum Dance at Seattle Repertory, directed by Donald Byrd (3 Gypsy Rose Lee Theater Awards); WARREN, Boise Contemporary Theater, directed by Matt Cameron Clark, Pulitzer Prize nomination, workshop at Seven Devils, reading at Primary Stages with Elizabeth Wilson and Tony Arkin directed by Jack Hofsiss, reading at The Actors Studio with Ellen Burstyn and Frank Wood directed by Jack Hofsiss; MAPPLETHORPE/The Opening, The Provincetown Playhouse, New Conservatory Theater Center, Sixth@Penn, and The Popop Studios, directed by John Stix (Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation Grant); NERINE, PlayPenn new play development conference, directed by Casey Stangl, id Theater “sit in” directed by Wayne Maugans with Daphne Rubin-Vega, Lynn Cohen and Cristin Miliati, Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference/Finalist for a Jerome Fellowship; SUMMERLAND, workshop at N.Y.U., directed by Jack Hofsiss, reading at Atlantic Theater Co directed by Rick DesRochers with Jay O.Sander, Mary McCann, and Katie Erbe (Weissberger nomination, 2 time O’Neill semi-finalist); Mary/HUNTER, workshop at Thingamajig, directed by Melissa Firlit, reading Actors Studio/PDU, directed by Christian Parker, reading at E.S.T directed by Daniela Topol. Awards/Honors/Residencies: The Robert Chelsey award for Emerging Gay/Lesbian Artist from The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation; the Erik A Takulan fellowship from Djerassi Resident Artist Program; a Leon Levy Foundation Grant and a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant from MacDowell (three-time Fellow); The Jane G. Camp Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; and a Ucross Foundation Fellowship. Member of id theater’s writing group, Dramatist Guild, alum of the Actors Studio/PDU, and Project Y Playwrights group.
Brian Quirk
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Brian Quirk worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…