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.

• “Buoyant, amusing, vivid, tangy, beguiling, engaging, and rawly funny.”

  — Charles Isherwood, The New York Times

• “★★★★ Critic’s Pick! Bruce Norris is a master of peevishness and acrimony with bravura dialogue, perfectly set-up jokes, and juicy jeremiads. Pam MacKinnon directs a strong and frisky ensemble with her usual flair.”

  — David Cote, TimeOut New York

• “A thrilling ride! Norris is a source of complicated pleasure. Very well acted and spiced up by smuttiness.”

  — Jesse Green, New York magazine

• “More like a massacre than an orgy, and very possibly Bruce Norris’ best! The Qualms is as fully alive as Clybourne Park but dares to cut even deeper.”

  — Jason Clark, Entertainment Weekly