Bathsheba Doran

Other plays include Parents’ Evening, Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, Living Room in Africa, Nest and adaptations of Dickens’ Great Expectations, Maeterlinck’s The Blind and Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. She is currently adapting The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency as a feature for HBO Films and writing on Season Two of the Martin Scorsese/HBO series “Boardwalk Empire.” Ms. Doran moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2000, after working as a TV sketch comedy writer in England. She received her B.A. from Cambridge University, her M.F.A. from Columbia University and went on to become a playwriting fellow at Juilliard. She is a recipient of a Helen Merill Award and under commission from Atlantic Theater and Playwrights Horizons. Her work is available from Samuel French and Playscripts Inc. (As of February 2011)

• “CRITICS' PICK! Simply terrific. Perhaps the finest new play of the season. Funny and audacious, haunting, and exquisitely wrought. A superlative cast, directed by Sam Gold with his customary grace.”

  — Charles Isherwood, New York Times

• “Raucous comedy, poignant emotion — "Kin" does all that and more, establishing Bathsheba Doran as a major talent. The ensemble delivers vividly memorable performances. You’ll fall in love.”

  — Frank Scheck, New York Post

• “FOUR STARS! A smashing cast and bravura direction by Sam Gold.”

  — David Cote, Time Out New York