Playwright Lisa Kron Recommends Theatre to Explore

MacDowell: We Are Here

MacDowell Fellow, board member, and Tony Award-winning playwright Lisa Kron (95, 14) has sent us a list of plays and playwrights she admires, and said while the list is incomplete, it nevertheless represents a variety of theatre worth discovering or rediscovering.

We provide links to script publishers, reviews, official sites, and in a few cases, video excerpts, behind-the-scenes peeks, and interviews with principals to aid in more discovery.

Some Recent Favorites:

Mary Jane (link to Indie Bound to buy the script) by MacDowell Fellow Amy Herzog (15)

Hir (link to buy the script) by MacDowell Fellow Taylor Mac (14)

Ain’t No Mo by Jordan E. Cooper

Marys Seacole by MacDowell Fellow Jackie Sibblies Drury (11)

Paris by Eboni Booth

Teenage Dick by Mike Lew


Some long-time favorites:

The Good Times Are Killing Me by Lynda Barry

The Good Person of Szechwan by Bertolt Brecht (Brown University production) and IndieBound link (buy the script)

The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer clips from the 2011 Broadway production courtesy of Playbill and IndieBound link (buy the script).

The Lady Dick (link to buy the script) by MacDowell Fellow Holly Hughes (88)


Some of my favorite playwrights:

MacDowell Fellow Anne Washburn (01, 08, 13)

MacDowell Fellow Madeleine George (04, 15, 18, 20)

MacDowell Fellow Deb Margolin (19)

The Debate Society (company)

Lloyd Suh

Stephen Adly Guirguis

The Five Lesbian Brothers (company with Lisa Kron as a member: Tooting one fifth of my own horn)

Dael Orlandersmith

Danny Hoch

Marcus Gardley

MacDowell Fellow Rob Handel (97, 99)