Bathsheba Doran
Bathsheba Doran is a British playwright living in New York City.
Life
Doran, nicknamed "Bash", grew up in London and studied at Cambridge University. She was a contemporary of Robert Webb and David Mitchell and her first job as a professional writer was comedy sketch writing for their BBC2 show Bruiser.[1] She then worked for several years as a comedy writer, writing for shows like Smack the Pony and TV to Go. In 2000, she moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship.[2] She received her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 2003,[3] and went on to become a playwriting fellow at Juilliard School.[4]
Doran's work has been developed by the O'Neill Playwriting Center, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club and Sundance Theatre Lab, among others. She helped Lear deBessonet with her play transFigures,[5] and is currently under commission from the Atlantic Theater Company and Playwrights Horizons.[6]
Doran says she fell in love with theatre when she found Peter Pan's shadow in the backstage at a theatre when she was a little girl and realised that it was made of pantyhose.[7]
Her mother is the Elizabethan historian, Susan Doran.
Doran's play, Kin, described as "exquisitely wrought" by the New York Times,[8] premiered at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons from 25 February – 3 April 2011, under the direction of Sam Gold.[9]
Her play The Mystery of Love and Sex, directed by Sam Gold, will open at Lincoln Center on 2 March 2015.[10]
She was nominated for a 2012 Writers Guild Award for her work on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.[11] She also wrote episodes for season 2 of the NBC show Smash. She is a writer and co-producer of season 2 of the Showtime show Masters of Sex.
Awards
- 2013 winner of first annual Berwin Lee Playwright Awards[12]
- 2009 recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award[13]
- Cherry Lane Mentor Project fellow
- three Lecomte du Nouy Lincoln Center playwriting awards
- 2005–06 Susan Smith Blackburn Awards finalist
- Liberace Playwriting Fellowship[14]
- Howard Stein Scholarship
- Lecomte de Nouy playwriting award.[15]
Works
- Feminine Wash, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- Until Morning, BBC Radio 4
- The Blind, Classic Stage Company, 2005
- Peer Gynt, Riverside Theatre
- Great Expectations, Lucille Lortel Theatre, 2006
- Living Room in Africa, 2006, Edge Theater, New York
- Time / Unstuck, Red Room, NY, 2006
- 2 Soldiers: The Red Room, NY, 2006
- Nest, Signature Theatre, 2007
- Nowhere in America, Keen Teens at The Kirk Theatre, 2008
- The Parent's Evening, The Flea, 2010
- Kin, Playwrights Horizons, 2011
- The Mystery of Love and Sex, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 2015
Bibliography
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- Living Room in Africa, Samuel French Ltd., 2008 ISBN 978-0-573-66345-1
- Nest, Samuel French, 2008 ISBN 978-0-573-66356-7
- Great Expectations, Playscripts, Inc., 2006
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References
- ↑ "Bathsheba Doran". IMDb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
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- ↑ "Eight Playwrights Win Helen Merrill Award". The New York Community Trust. 18 September 2009.
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External links
- Bathsheba Doran at Doollee.com
- Nest review at Talkin' Broadway
- Bathsheba Doran imdb profile at imdb
