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2. Signature’s 2003-04 playwright-inresidence described his collaboration
with David Shiner as “a semi-improv
process where one of us does something and the other goes, ‘oh yeah…well,
what about THIS?’”
3. This beloved son of Wharton, Texas
was honored with a “marathon” production of his epic The Orphans’ Home
Cycle during the 2009-10 Season.
4. Signature celebrated its 20th
Anniversary with a season honoring
this playwright, whose two-part
masterwork is subtitled “A Gay
Fantasia on National Themes.”
7. Born eight years apart (one in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and one
in Lebanon, Missouri), these are the
only two Signature playwrights to
share a surname.
9. This playwright, born 100 years
ago this October, said he was inspired
to become a writer after reading
Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov
in high school.
10. Speaking about his play Six
Degrees of Separation, this writer said,
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“During a run, the playwright feels like
the mayor of a small town filled with
noble creatures who have to get out
there and make it brand new every
night....it’s unlike any other joy in the
world.”
11. This current Residency One
playwright often utilizes his hometown
of Buffalo, New York, in his plays.
12. During the 2008-09 Season,
Signature honored this historic
company, led by Douglas Turner Ward,
and presented works by Charles Fuller,
Leslie Lee, and Samm-Art Williams.
14. Signature has huge affection for
this 2007-08 playwright-in-residence,
who returned in 2015 to stage Big Love
with longtime collaborator Tina Landau.
16. As Signature’s playwright-inresidence during the Inaugural Season
in The Pershing Square Signature
Center in 2012, this writer brought
stories of his native South Africa to
New York audiences.
18. This multi-talented playwright
was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actor
for his role in the film The Right Stuff.
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1. This MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient joined the
Signature family in the 2014-15 Season, and she often
utilizes poetry as inspiration for her play titles.
5. Heralded as one of the boldest writers in
theatre, this playwright was honored at the 2008
Obie Awards with a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Her first Obie Award came in 1964 for her seminal
work Funnyhouse of a Negro.
6. A renowned professor of playwriting, this 200405 Signature writer counts Residency Five playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes among her students.
8. Signature’s first playwright-in-residence,
and the namesake of one of the theatres in
The Pershing Square Signature Center.
13. “Three” is the lucky number for this three-time
Pulitzer Prize-winner who was also Signature’s
third playwright-in-residence.
15. Artistic Director James Houghton directed
this playwright’s Two Rooms during Signature’s
second season.
17. This 2013-14 Signature playwright-inresidence’s work The Dance and the Railroad
toured to Wuzhen, China, making it Signature’s
first international production.
19. Born in Havana, this nine-time Obie winner
had her play Letters from Cuba produced during
Signature’s 1999-2000 Season.
Early in 1991 I got a call one night from Jim Houghton. He had contacted me not long before and had asked me to play
the title role in Romulus Linney‘s wonderful play, The Sorrows of Frederick. Jim wanted, of course, to build a theatre
which would devote an entire season to one writer, and the playwright he had decided to start with was Romulus Linney.
Right away I was on Jim’s side. I’d always thought Romulus was one of the great writers of the American theatre,
and the idea that a little theatre on Bond Street, New York would be bombarded by his plays for an entire season,
in all their scarcely imaginable variety, seemed to be inspired and generous and necessary to the point of exhilaration.
These adjectives, I very soon came to see, could all \ H