Lucy Thurber

Author of seven plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Scarcity, Killers and Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World, and Monstrosity. The Atlantic Theater Company opened its 2007-08 season with Scarcity. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater produced Where We’re Born, Killers and Other Family, and Stay. Bottom of The World was commissioned by Women’s Expressive Theater, Inc. Monstrosity was workshopped by Encore Theatre Company (San Francisco) and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Recipient of the 2000-2001 Manhattan Theatre Club Playwriting Fellowship and was a guest artist at the Perseverance Theatre. Readings and workshops held at Manhattan Theatre Club, the New Group, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, PlayPenn, New River Dramatists, Tribeca Theater Festival, Eugene O’Neill, the Public Theater, and Soho Rep. Playwright-in-residence at the Orchard Project, summer 2007. Dinner is published in Not So Sweet, a collection of plays from Soho Rep’s Summer Camp. Scarcity was published in the December 2007 issue of American Theatre. A member of New Dramatists, 13P, MCC Playwrights Coalition, and Writers Group at Primary Stages. Published by Dramatists Play Service. Currently commissioned by Playwrights Horizons. SLC, 2008—