Bruce Norris

Playwrights: The Qualms, Clybourne Park, The Pain and the Itch. Bruce’s play Clybourne Park received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as the Olivier, Evening Standard, and Tony Awards for productions at Playwrights Horizons, the Royal Court, West End, and Broadway. Other plays include The Low Road, Domesticated, A Parallelogram, and The Unmentionables. He is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble in Chicago and lives in New York City.

• “Critic’s Pick! This deep, dark tragicomedy pokes and prods at our compassion, checks the pulse on our sense of justice, taps our reflex response to charm. And charm, in this play, is both a tool of the predators’ trade and a survival skill.”

  — The New York Times

• “Brilliant, risky, and in-your-face, Bruce Norris’s shocking, controversial ‘Downstate’ is the season’s best play so far.”

  — New York Post