Will Arbery | playwright & filmmaker
BIO
Will Arbery is a playwright and filmmaker from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters.
Plays: Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons) // Plano (Clubbed Thumb) // Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (New Neighborhood) // Wheelchair (3 Hole Press) // You Hateful Things (NYTW Dartmouth Residency). He's currently under commission from Playwrights Horizons and Shadowcatcher Entertainment.
Member/alum: New Dramatists, P73's I-73, EST/Youngblood, The Working Farm at SPACE on Ryder Farm, Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers Group, Colt Coeur.
Awards: Tow Foundation Grant, and an Edes Prize for Emerging Artists. Stage Raw Award for Best Playwriting (The Mongoose).
Features/interviews: The New York Times, Vox, Brooklyn Rail, NPR, On Point, Upstage Left, Know Your Enemy, America Magazine, HowlRound, Dallas Morning News, and The Wicked Stage. While in grad school, he was named one of Variety’s “110 Students to Watch.”
Dance work: Steppenwolf, Pioneer Works, The Watermill Center, and MCA Chicago, Featured on Desus & Mero and Creators Project.
Education: MFA in Writing for the Screen + Stage from Northwestern University. BA in English & Drama from Kenyon College.
AGENTS | ICM Partners
THEATER | Di Glazer + Sam Barickman | dglazer@icmpartners.com + sbarickman@icmpartners.com
TV | Zach Carlisle | zcarlisle@icmpartners.com
FILM | Viviane Telio | vtelio@icmpartners.com
MANAGEMENT | Odenkirk-Provissiero
Manager: Eva Dickerman | eva@op-ent.com
HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING (2019) - Playwrights Horizons
Directed by Danya Taymor. Starring Jeb Kreager, Julie McDermott, Michele Pawk, Zoe Winters, and John Zdrojeski. Set by Laura Jellinek. Lights by Isabella Byrd. Sound by Justin Ellington. Costumes by Sarafina Bush. Photos by Sara Krulwich.
PLANO (2018) - Clubbed Thumb Summerworks
Directed by Taylor Reynolds. Starring Brendan Dalton, Crystal Finn, Susannah Flood, Ryan King, Cesar J Rosado, Mary Shultz, and Miriam Silverman. Set by Daniel Zimmerman. Lights by Isabella Byrd. Costumes by Stephanie Levin. Photos by Elke Young.
EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING (2018) - New Neighborhood
Directed by Dustin Wills. Starring Justin Kirk, Keira Naughton, Howard Overshown, and Rachel Sachnoff. Set by Jean Kim. Lights by Masha Tsimring. Projections by Nick Hussong. Costumes by Seth Bodie. Photos by Joey Moro.
FOR THE TOWARD
Dance performance with Matty Davis. Co-choreographed by Kora Radella. Performances at Pioneer Works, MCA Chicago, and site-specifically in Brooklyn, Miami, and Chicago.
PLAYS + PUBLICATIONS
HEROES OF THE FOURTH TURNING
+ Performed at Playwrights Horizons from September 13 - November 17 2019. Directed by Danya Taymor.
+ Best of 2019: The New York Times, Vulture, Towleroad, Time Out, Theater Mania.
+ Read reviews in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Vulture, The Outline, Towleroad, Catholic Herald, and Time Out.
+ Developed at Cape Cod Theater Project, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Vineyard Theater.
+ Available for purchase here.
PLANO
+ Produced by Clubbed Thumb for a full Off-Broadway run, April 8 - May 11 2019. Directed by Taylor Reynolds.
+ Responses in Vulture, The New Yorker, Time Out, Theater Mania, Culture Bot, The New York Times.
+ Produced by paper chairs in Austin, TX, where it graced three Austin Chronicle year-end lists: 1, 2, 3.
+ Upcoming production by First Floor Theater in Chicago, presented at Steppenwolf's LookOut Series. Directed by Audrey Francis. Tickets here.
+ Available for purchase here.
EVANSTON SALT COSTS CLIMBING
+ Produced by New Neighborhood at White Heron Theater, August 30 - September 15 2018. Directed by Dustin Wills.
+ Developed at Ojai Playwrights Conference, Clubbed Thumb + Playwrights Horizons Superlab, The New Group, and Little Theater.
WHEELCHAIR
+ Performed at Dixon Place for one-night-only in December 2016. Directed by Will Arbery + Jacob Brandt.
+ Published by 3 Hole Press with an introduction by Bill Callahan.
+ Available for purchase here.
YOU HATEFUL THINGS
+ Developed at SPACE on Ryder Farm, EST/Youngblood, and NYTW Dartmouth Residency.
CLAUSTROPHILE
+ Developed at Bushwick Starr and Clubbed Thumb.
53RD STATE OCCASIONAL NO. 2
+ I asked Agnes Borinsky, Matty Davis, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Corinne Donly, David Greenspan, Phillip Howze, Julia Jarcho, Modesto Flako Jimenez, Mia Katigbak, MJ Kaufman, Kristine Haruna Lee, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Daaimah Mubashshir, Rachel Marlene Kauder Nalebuff, Caitlin Ryan O'Connell, Zach Rufa, Ren Dara Santiago, Celine Song, Jordan Tannahill, Kate Tarker, Alice Tuan, Korde Arrington Tuttle, and Madeline Wise a question. They responded.
+ Available for purchase here.
MISCELLANY
+ Check out this music video I made for Pinegrove, starring my sister Monica.
+ A short film, Your Resources, starring my sister Julia.
+ Also, want to get meta?
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