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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• “CRITICS' PICK! A theatrical combo plate that proves unusually satisfying. Quietly moving, raucous, funny and unexpectedly touching, life’s darkest terrors and most visceral delights both play a role. It’s hard to keep from getting appropriately teary.”

  — Charles Isherwood, New York Times

• “Unforgettable. Watching "A Small Fire," I almost felt that Adam Bock had written it to prove that we have, in New York, the best actors in the world.”

  — Michael Feingold, Village Voice

• “With an ear for true-to-life dialogue, an eye for deftly developed characters and a nose for narratives that never lead where you expect, Adam Bock excels at taking audiences to surprising places.”

  — Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News