David Cromer

Playwrights Horizons debut. Broadway: The House of Blue Leaves, Brighton Beach Memoirs. Off-Broadway: Man from Nebraska (Second Stage); The Band’s Visit, Women or Nothing (Atlantic); The Effect, Tribes, Our Town, Orson’s Shadow, Adding Machine (Barrow Street); Really Really (MCC); When the Rain Stops Falling, Nikolai and the Others (LCT). Regional and London: Come Back, Little Sheba (Huntington); Angels in America (Kansas City Rep); Our Town (Almeida in London). Originally from Chicago, his credits there include Sweet Bird of Youth (Goodman); A Streetcar Named Desire, Picnic, The Price (Writers Theatre); Cherrywood, Mojo, The Hot l Baltimore (Mary-Arrchie); The Cider House Rules (co-directed with Marc Grapey at Famous Door); Angels in America (The Journeymen), among others. For Michael Ira Cromer (1966-2015).

• “CRITIC'S PICK! Max Posner has a sharp and original ear. Impeccably directed by David Cromer. Adroitly balances the everyday and the extreme.”

  — Ben Brantley, The New York Times | Read Full Article

• “CRITIC'S PICK! ★★★★ Searching, subtle, emotional and personal.”

  — Adam Feldman, Time Out New York

• “A marvel and invaluable new play. Deanna Dunagan’s adjective-defying performance made my chest hurt. ”

  — Sara Holdren, New York Magazine | Read Full Article

• “Posner’s revelations, touching on the linguistic, the sociological, and the theological, waver between the explicit and the mysterious, and gives us something funny and scary to ponder. ”

  — The New Yorker