Lucy Thurber
c/o Beth Blickers
Abrams Artists Agency
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New York, NY 10001
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Lucy Thurber is the author of seven plays: Where We’re Born, Ashville, Innocence is a Sin, Killers & Other Family, Stay, Bottom of the World, and Monstrosity. She was the recipient of the 2000/2001 Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship. Her play, Bottom of the World, will be produced by WET in the winter of 2005 and was previously workshopped at The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Center this past summer. Bottom of the World was part of The Tribeca Theater festival this past fall and received a workshop at The Public Theater. She attended New River Dramatists in North Carolina. Her play, Where We’re Born, was produced at Rattlestick Theater in the fall of 2003. Killers and Other Family was produced at Rattlestick Theater in 2001. Also in 2001, she was commissioned by The Keene Theater Company to write a short piece called The Kool-Aid Smile, which was presented in “Keene America.” She was a guest artist at The Perseverance Theatre twice, where she helped to adapt both Moby Dick and Desire Under the Elms. She has had readings and workshops at Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Group, Primary Stages and Soho Rep. Her ten-minute play, Dinner, is published in a collection called Not So Sweet, 16 Plays From Soho Rep’s Ten-Minute Play Festival. She is a member of MCC Playwrights’ Coalition, Primary Stages’ writing group, and 13P.
KILLERS AND OTHER FAMILY
Drama
2M, 2W
Single Set, NYC Apartment
Elizabeth is about to finish her dissertation. She is very much in love
with her girlfriend and their life together. But then her brother and
his best friend show up. They are on the run. Their arrival forces
Elizabeth to confront her past and finally make a choice about the kind
of person she wants to be. This play functions as a waking nightmare.
The fears and memories become actual and the psychological real.
Equity showcase at The
Playwrights’ Collective, NYC; Off-Broadway production at the Rattlestick
Playwrights’ Theater, NYC
SCARCITY
Drama
2M(40’s), 3W(2 late30s/early 40s, 1 20s),
Single Set 1boy(16), 1girl (14)
A small town in Western Mass. A family, the Lawrences, struggles with
poverty, boredom and lost potential. Into this isolated town comes
Ellen. She is a young woman, highly educated, wealthy and well traveled.
She wants to give back to her country through education. She starts
teaching in the public high school where Billy and Rachel Lawrence go.
Ellen develops an obsession with Billy, his intelligence, insight and
potential. Her obsession and desire to lift Billy out of poverty tears
the family apart.
STAY
Drama
3W, 2M
2 Sets: Living room, Office
Rachel is trying to finish her first novel before the deadline is due.
She is trying to deal with her students as a first time professor. Her
brother has come to stay because he just got fired from his job.
She also has a secret: she has an angel that talks to her. She has spent
her life closed off to the people around her. All her love, fears and
hopes she shares with something that isn’t human. When one of her
students, Julia, reveals to her that she has similar powers, Rachel has
to decide if she shares all of who she is or closes herself off forever.
WHERE WE’RE BORN
Drama
3M, 2W
Single Set
Small town rural America, class distinctions, sexual politics and love.
This play explores the fact that sometimes in order to leave your home
you have to destroy it.
Lilly comes home for vacation from her first year at college. She is a
scholarship student from a very rural town. She comes home to her cousin
Tony. He is like a combination father, brother and best friend. Lilly,
in an attempt to bring her new world and her old world together, breaks
apart everything around her.
Equity showcase at The
Playwrights’ Collective, NYC; Off-Broadway production at The Rattlestick
Playwrights’ Theater, NYC.