David Adjmi is an American playwright. He studied at the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Juilliard School's American Playwrights Program, and he currently lives in New York.

Adjmi's play The Evildoers was developed at the Sundance Institute and the Royal Court Theatre in London. It premiered in January 2008 at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Variety called it "an anxiety attack of a play" and, of Adjmi, noted that he is "clearly a writer with a distinct voice, ambition and style."^[1] His play Stunning opened a month later at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington DC where it was selected as one of the top ten plays of the year by The Washington Post and was published in American Theatre magazine. Stunning premiered in New York at Lincoln Center Theatre in June 2009 where it played an extended run to sold-out houses. Adjmi's play Marie Antoinette was developed at the Goodman Theatre's New Stages Series and the Sundance Institute's Residency at the Public Theatre. His monologue Elective Affinities was commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre and later premiered at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the United Kingdom. The New Yorker recently identified Adjmi as an as an "up-and-coming" playwright who is part of "a new trend in the American theatre."^[2]

Other Plays include Strange Attractors, Caligula and 3C. Adjmi is the recipient of numerous awards for his work, including the Helen Merrill Award, the Marian Seldes-Garson Kanin Fellowship, and McKnight and Jerome Fellowships from The Playwrights' Center. He was recently the recipient of the prestigious Steinberg Playwright Award, the Bush Artists Fellowship, and the Kesselring Fellowship for Drama. A collection of his work, Stunning and Other Plays, will be published by Theatre Communications Group in early 2010.

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1. ^ http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117935952.html?categoryid=1265&cs=1
2. ^ http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/theatre/2009/01/26/090126crth_theatre_als

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• http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=5326

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