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Identifier
ThanksgivingPlaybill_Page_06
Creation Date
12-10-2025
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Theatre and Performance Studies
Description
PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS & SECOND STAGE THEATER
Playwrights Horizons is dedicated to cultivating the most important American playwrights, composers, and lyricists, as well as developing and producing their bold new plays and musicals. Tim Sanford became Artistic Director in 1996 and Leslie Marcus has been Managing Director since 1993. Under their decades of leadership, Playwrights builds upon its diverse and renowned body of work, counting 400 writers among its artistic roster. In addition to its onstage work each season, Playwrights’ singular commitment to nurturing American theater artists guides all of the institution’s multifaceted initiatives: our acclaimed New Works Lab, a robust commissioning program, an innovative curriculum at its Theater School, and more. Robert Moss founded Playwrights in 1971 and cemented the mission that continues to guide the institution today. André Bishop served as Artistic Director from 1981-1992. Don Scardino succeeded him and served until 1996. Over its 47-year history, Playwrights has been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including six Pulitzer Prizes, 13 Tony Awards, and 39 Obie Awards.
Second Stage Theater: Under the artistic direction of Carole Rothman, Second Stage Theater operates three New York City venues, exclusively dedicated to producing living American playwrights. Second Stage recently completed its 43rd season, which included the Tony Award-winning revival of Richard Greenberg’s Take Me Out and the New York premiere production of Lynn Nottage’s Tony nominated play Clyde’s, as well as the world premieres of Rajiv Joseph’s Letters of Suresh and JC Lee’s To My Girls. The company’s 2021–22 productions received several nominations and awards including Tony Awards for Best Revival of a Play(Take Me Out) and Best Featured Actor in a Play (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out); the Outer Critics Circle Awards for Outstanding Revival of a Play (Take Me Out), Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Take Me Out) and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Uzo Aduba, Clyde’s); the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Projection Design (Shawn Duan, Letters of Suresh); and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Costume Design for a Play (Jennifer Moeller, Clyde’s). Second Stage’s first season on Broadway at The Hayes Theater included Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan, directed by Trip Cullman (Tony nominee for Best Revival of Play, Best (continued on next page)
Publisher
Arkansas State University
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Keywords
thanksgiving, comedy, Indigenous people, Native American
