6660 Manasota Key Road
Englewood
Florida 34223
A New Play Reading with Hermitage Fellow and Tony Award Nominee Bess Wohl
Friday, May 13 at 6:30pm
Hermitage Beach (entrance at 6660 Manasota Key Road, Englewood, Florida 34223)
Bess Wohl’s Hermitage Artist Residency made possible by Robyn and Charles Citrin.
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Registration is required. $5 per person.
Award-winning playwright Bess Wohl has had work performed on some of the most prominent stages around the country but, like so many artists, can trace her career back to her Off-Broadway roots. Hear work selections from the Tony-nominated playwright whose play Grand Horizons recently concluded a run at Asolo Rep.
Hermitage Fellow Bess Wohl’s plays include Grand Horizons (Broadway), Small Mouth Sounds (New York Times, Best of 2016), Make Believe (New York Times, Best of 2019), Continuity, American Hero, Barcelona, Touched, In, Cats Talk Back, and Pretty Filthy (with Michael Friedman and the New York-based investigative theater troupe The Civilians, where she is an associate artist). Her plays have been produced at theater companies around the country, including Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Ars Nova, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theater and many more. Wohl is the recipient of the 2015 Sam Norkin Special Drama Desk Award for “establishing herself as an important voice in New York theater” and the John Gassner Outer Critics Circle Award. She currently holds new play commissions from Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theater Club, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. She is a MacDowell Fellow and an alumna of Ars Nova’s Play Group. BA Harvard, MFA Yale School of Drama.