Stunning and Other Plays - Paperback

by David Adjmi (Author)

"Nearly everything about David Adjmi's Stunning has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue." -Time Out New York

This volume of distinctive work includes Stunning, set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage bride's world is disrupted by her intellectual African American housekeeper; Evildoers, about the collapse of two privileged couples; and Elective Affinities, a post-9/11 monologue.

David Adjimi's other plays include Marie Antoninette, 3C, Strange Attractions, and Caligula. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers' Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, among others. Stunning was selected to appear in The 2012 Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays. His as-yet-untitled memoir is forthcoming from Harper Collins. Adjimi is a member of New Dramatists, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Juliard School. This is his first play collection.

Author Biography

Is the recent recipient of the 2009 Kesselring and Bush Artists Fellowships. Other plays include "The Evildoers" (Sundance & Yale Rep), "Elective Affinities" (Royal Shakespeare Company), "Marie Antoinette" (Soho Rep W/D Lab, Sundance/Public Theatre Residency, Goodman Theatre New Stages Series), "Caligula" (Soho Rep Studio Series), and "Strange Attractors" (Empty Space). Honors: McKnight Advancement Grant, Jerome Fellowship, Helen Merrill Award, Marian