Bathsheba Doran

Bathsheba Doran is a 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 has been commissioned by 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, opened at Lincoln Center in New York on 2 March 2015,^[10] was described as "perfectly wonderful" by the New York Times. The play was subsequently produced at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles^[11] and the Signature Theater, Arlington VA,^[12] among other national and international venues.

She was nominated for a 2012 Writers Guild Award for her work on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.^[13] She also wrote episodes for season 2 of the NBC show Smash. She was a writer and co-producer of season 2 of the Showtime show Masters of Sex. She is co-executive producing and writing Hulu's upcoming adaptation of The Looming Tower.^[14]

She lives with her wife and two children in New York City.

Awards

• 2013 winner of first annual Berwin Lee Playwright Awards^[15]
• 2009 recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award^[16]
• Cherry Lane Mentor Project fellow
• 2005–06 Susan Smith Blackburn Awards finalist
• Liberace Playwriting Fellowship^[17]
• Howard Stein Scholarship
• Three Lecomte de Nouy playwriting awards.^[18]

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

• The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays: Volume One. Oberon Books. 2012. ISBN 978-1849431538. 
• Kin. Dramatist's Play Service. 2012. ISBN 978-0822225614. 
• 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
• Brown, Kent R., ed. (2005). "Film Noir". 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays. Dramatic Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58342-283-0. 
• Great Expectations (A Play). Playscripts. 2006. ASIN B002O9B19E. 
• The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005. Back Stage Books. 2004. ISBN 978-0823088089. 
• The Mystery of Love and Sex, Samuel French Ltd., 2015 ISBN 9780573704543
• The Marriage Plays, Oberon Books, 2016 ISBN 9781783197590

References

External links

• Bathsheba Doran at Doollee.com
• Nest review at Talkin' Broadway
• Bathsheba Doran imdb profile at imdb