Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Jordan Seavey

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011

Jordan Seavey's plays include Homos, or Everyone in America (OBIE Award for performance, Michael Urie; New York Times "Critic’s Pick"; New York Magazine’s 10 Best Theater Events of 2016; The Advocate’s Top 10 New York Theater of 2016), The Seven Year Disappear, Wight, November 4th 2008, The Funny Pain, The Truth Will Out, Children at Play, 6969 and This is a Newspaper. Since 2003 he’s co-created more than fifteen new plays with theater company CollaborationTown, including Riddle of the Trilobites (The New Victory Theater), Candy (a commission from LCT3 / Lincoln Center), Family Play (1979 to Present) (The Advocate’s 10 Best LGBT Plays of 2014), and The Momentum (GLAAD Award nomination). His work has been developed at NYTW, The Public Theater, Labyrinth Theatre Co., Soho Rep, Roundabout Theater Co., Primary Stages, The Flea, The New Ohio, The Old Vic (London), Finborough Theatre (London), Oslo International Theatre (Norway), Q Theatre (New Zealand), Robert Wilison's Watermill Center, the Edward F. Albee Foundation and MacDowell. He is a usual suspect at New York Theatre Workshop, and an alum of The Public Theater's Emerging Writer’s Group, Primary Stages' Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group, and the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab.

Studios

Sorosis

Jordan Seavey worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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