Our Writers
Liz Duffy Adams (THE LISTENER)
Liz Duffy Adams is a New Dramatists Resident Playwright and a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award, the Frederick Loewe Award in Music-Theatre, and the Will Glickman Award. Her work has been written, produced, or developed at the Humana Festival, SPF, Portland Center Stage, Portland Stage Company, Syracuse Stage, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Millay Colony for the Arts, Shotgun Players, Cutting Ball, Moxie Theater, and Crowded Fire among other organizations. Publications include Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause's "Best American Short Plays 2000-2001," numerous short plays and monologues in anthologies from Heinemann and Smith & Kraus, and several plays published by Playscripts, Inc. She is currently working on a commission from the Children's Theater Company in Minneapolis, and a music-theater adaptation of her play THE LISTENER with composer John Hodian. Adams is a graduate of NYU's Experimental Theater Wing and Yale School of Drama.
Charles L. Mee (GONE)
Charles Mee is known for his radical reconstructions of existing texts and his inimitable collage-like style of playwriting. His plays incorporate music, dance, and video and have explored themes as wide ranging as history, politics, gender dynamics, and love.
Charles Mee was raised in Barrington, Illinois and educated at Harvard University. Following his graduation from university in 1960, Mee moved to New York City where he wrote plays for Off-Off-Broadway and supported himself as an editor and writer for the hardcover arts magazine HORIZON. Between 1972 and 1993 he wrote eleven books on world history and American international relations, including MEETING AT POTSDAM (1975); THE END OF ORDER: VERSAILLES, 1919 (1980); THE MARSHALL PLAN: THE LAUNCHING OF THE PAX AMERICANA (1984); REMBRANDT'S PORTRAIT: A BIOGRAPHY (1988); and PLAYING GOD: SEVEN FATEFUL MOMENTS WHEN GREAT MEN MET TO CHANGE THE WORLD (1993); and a memoir, A NEARLY NORMAL LIFE (1999).
Mee is known for his radical reconstructions of existing texts and his inimitable collage-like style of playwriting. His plays incorporate music, dance, and video and have explored themes as wide ranging as history, politics, gender dynamics, and love.
Charles Mee was raised in Barrington, Illinois and educated at Harvard University. Following his graduation from university in 1960, Mee moved to New York City where he wrote plays for Off-Off-Broadway and supported himself as an editor and writer for the hardcover arts magazine Horizon. Between 1972 and 1993 he wrote eleven books on world history and American international relations, including Meeting at Potsdam (1975); The End of Order: Versailles, 1919 (1980); The Marshall Plan: The Launching of the Pax Americana (1984); Rembrandt's Portrait: A Biography (1988); and Playing God: Seven Fateful Moments When Great Men Met to Change the World (1993); and a memoir, A Nearly Normal Life (1999).