Stephen
Adley Guirgus
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Stephen Adly Guirgis: is a longtime member of LAByrinth. His play, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, completed a critically praised Off-Broadway run, won the Fringe Festival Award at the Edinburgh Festival, moved to London’s Donmar Warehouse, and transferred to The Arts Theatre in London’s West End under the direction of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. The play was also produced and extended by the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago during the 2001-2002 season. New productions are forthcoming this season both regionally and throughout Europe and South America. Jesus is published through Dramatists Play Service, Methuen, and is included in the Smith and Krauss anthology Best Plays of 2001. His previous play, In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, was also produced by LAByrinth, directed by Phillip Seymour Hoffman and published through DPS. It was named one of the Ten Best Plays of 1999 by Time Out NY magazine and is being premiered in London by the Hampstead Theatre this season. Stephen is the recipient of new play commissions from Manhattan Theatre Club and South Coast Repertory, and is a member of MCC’s Playwright’s Coalition. TV writing credits include “NYPD Blue,” “The Sopranos,” David Milch’s “Big Apple” and NBC’s “UC: Undercover.” Stephen developed and directed Liza Colon-Zayas Sistah Supreme and Marco Greco’s Cable Ace Award winning “Behind the Counter with Mussolini.” He continues to work as an actor and begins shooting Brett C. Leonard’s Jailbait opposite Michael Pitt this fall.
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