Adam Bock

Adam Bock is a playwright best known for A Small Fire, The Receptionist, The Drunken City, The Thugs, and Swimming in the Shallows. He writes both comedy and drama, blending whimsical surrealism with dark and painful exploration of character. Charles Isherwood described A Small Fire as “a theatrical combo plate that proves unusually satisfying ... raucous, funny and unexpectedly touching.” Adam has had more than ten plays produced at prestigious theatres including Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep., Second Stage Uptown, Rattlestick, and Yale Rep. He has received the Obie Award, BATCC Award, Clauder Prize, Glickman Award, and Guernsey Award, and been nominated for the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards. Adam has been a resident playwright at New Dramatists and an artistic associate at Shotgun Players and Encore Theater. (As of February 2016)

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• “A LOT OF FUN! Adam Bock’s scalpel-sharp insight has made him a potent force on today’s theater scene. Trip Cullman pitches the performances at just the right level of wooziness. TART, SMART, AND INTOXICATING.”

  — Eric Grode, New York Sun

• “A PLAYFUL AND HOPEFUL COMEDY. Like the best episodes of ‘Sex and the City’, a little heartache goes well with hilarity. The cast is appealing, adorable, and top-shelf.”

  — Joe Dziemianowicz, The Daily News

• “HILARIOUS!”

  — Jeremy McCarter, New York Magazine