Steve Cosson
(Co-Writer/Director) Founder of The Civilians. With the company: the long-running hit Gone Missing, (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch, Brooklyn at Eye Level, Paris Commune and Canard, Canard, Goose?. Productions at The Public Theater, Barrow Street Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ART, Gate Theatre and Soho Theatre in London, Edinburgh Fringe (Fringe First Award), […]
(Co-Writer/Director) Founder of The Civilians. With the company: the long-running hit Gone Missing, (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch, Brooklyn at Eye Level, Paris Commune and Canard, Canard, Goose?. Productions at The Public Theater, Barrow Street Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ART, Gate Theatre and Soho Theatre in London, Edinburgh Fringe (Fringe First Award), HBO Comedy Festival and many others. Directed and developed many new plays: Neal Bell’s Shadow of Himself, Mat Smart’s 13th of Paris, Tommy Smith’s Air Conditioning, Anne Washburn’s Communist Dracula Pageant, world-premiere of Peter Morris’ Square Root of Minus One; U.S. premiere of Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life, U.S. premiere of Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, also The Time of Your Life, Serious Money, The Importance of Being Earnest and Guys and Dolls. He’s been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, a MacDowell Fellow, and Resident Director at New Dramatists. Obie Award for The Civilians.
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STEVE COSSON
STEVE COSSON is a writer, director, and Artistic Director of The Civilians. Recently, Claire Kiechel’s PAUL SWAN IS DEAD AND GONE, Jill Sobule’s musical TIMES SQUARE, book/director THE ABOMINABLES (Children’s Theatre Company), writer/director THE UNDERTAKING (BAM Next Wave, US tour, Theatre de la Ville, Paris, and 59E59); José Rivera’s ANOTHER WORD FOR BEAUTY, (Goodman Theatre); writer/director, RIMBAUD IN NEW YORK (BAM); Michael Friedman and Bess Wohl’s PRETTY FILTHY; THE BELLE OF AMHERST starring Joely Richardson; writer/director THE GREAT IMMENSITY (The Public Theater); Anne Washburn’s MR. BURNS, A POST-ELECTRIC PLAY (Playwrights Horizons). Also, IN THE FOOTPRINT; writer/director, THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY (Center Theatre Group, Vineyard Theatre, and several other regionals); (I AM) NOBODY’S LUNCH; and GONE MISSING. In 2014-15, artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. stevecosson.com
Steve Cosson
(Co-Writer/Director) Founder of The Civilians. With the company: the long-running hit Gone Missing, (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch, Brooklyn at Eye Level, Paris Commune and Canard, Canard, Goose?. Productions at The Public Theater, Barrow Street Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, ART, Gate Theatre and Soho Theatre in London, Edinburgh Fringe (Fringe First Award), HBO Comedy Festival and many others. Directed and developed many new plays: Neal Bell’s Shadow of Himself, Mat Smart’s 13th of Paris, Tommy Smith’s Air Conditioning, Anne Washburn’s Communist Dracula Pageant, world-premiere of Peter Morris’ Square Root of Minus One; U.S. premiere of Martin Crimp’s Attempts on Her Life, U.S. premiere of Sarah Kane’s Phaedra’s Love, also The Time of Your Life, Serious Money, The Importance of Being Earnest and Guys and Dolls. He’s been a Fulbright Scholar in Colombia, a MacDowell Fellow, and Resident Director at New Dramatists. Obie Award for The Civilians.