Liz Duffy Adams’ play Or, premiered Off-Broadway at Women’s Project Theater and has been produced over 50 times since, including at Magic Theater and Seattle Rep. She’s a New Dramatists alumna and has received a Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Weston Playhouse Music Theater Award, MacDowell residencies, and Will Glickman Award. Her work has also been produced or developed at the Contemporary American Theater Festival, Humana Festival, PlayPenn Conference, Portland Center Stage, Flux Theatre Ensemble, New Georges, Clubbed Thumb, Cutting Ball, Shotgun Players, and Crowded Fire, among other places.
Publications include Dog Act in “Geek Theater: Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy Plays”(Underwords Press 2014); Or, in “Best Plays of 2010” (Smith & Kraus); Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in “Best American Short Plays 2000-2001” (Applause Books); and several plays in acting editions by Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. Adams has a BFA from New York University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama. She was the 2012–2013 Briggs-Copeland Visiting Lecturer in Playwriting at Harvard and has taught playwriting at the University of Manitoba, Amherst College, Mt Holyoke College, and currently at SUNY Purchase.
Liz Duffy Adams