Leigh Silverman

Broadway: David Henry Hwang’s Chinglish; Lisa Kron’s Well. Recent world premieres: The Madrid (MTC); No Place to Go (Public Theater); In the Wake (Center Theatre Group/Berkeley Repertory Theatre and The Public Theater, Obie Award, Lortel nomination); Chinglish (Goodman Theater, Jeff nomination; West Coast/Hong Kong tour); Go Back to Where You Are (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award); From Up Here (MTC, Drama Desk nomination); Yellow Face (Center Theatre Group/The Public Theater); Coraline (MCC/True Love); Blue Door (Playwrights Horizons); Hunting and Gathering (Primary Stages); Beebo Brinker Chronicles (Hourglass Group/37 Arts); Creature (New Georges/P73); Well (The Public Theater; Huntington Theatre; ACT); Oedipus at Palm Springs (NYTW); also Golden Child (Signature Theatre) and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea (Second Stage Theatre); and many regional productions.  West End: Wit.   She is currently directing Tanya Barfield's The Call for Playwrights Horizons and Primary Stages. (As of March 2013)

• “MARVELOUS AND FILLED WITH MARVELS. In the Stoppardian world of The Watson Intelligence, Madeleine George’s human, dramatic play takes surprising turns. Amanda Quaid, David Costabile, and John Ellison Conlee are excellent, and under Leigh Silverman’s bracing direction, pull off a good deal of magic. ”

  — Jesse Green, New York magazine

• “FOUR STARS. A sweet and twisty time-tripping fantasy that keeps the seriocomic juices flowing. Refreshingly whimsical, Madeleine George’s play juggles several deep themes with grace, wit and intellectual verve. ”

  — David Cote, Time Out NY

• “GRANDLY AMBITIOUS. John Ellison Conlee is brilliant in four different roles. David Costabile imbues his characters with a fervid intensity. ”

  — Charles Isherwood, NY Times

• “Like her characters, playwright Madeleine George is fiercely inventive.”

  — David Cote, NY1 | Read Review Transcript

• “The talented cast masters quick-change character shifts, swapping accents and costumes at a breakneck pace. Watching them, it's easy to get drawn into the play's knot of ideas and romantic intrigue. ”

  — Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly

• “A FAST PACED, GENRE-DEFYING PLAY certain to get your mental gears turning. ”

  — Zachary Stewart, Theatermania