Bathsheba Doran

Bathsheba Doran’s play Parents’ Evening received its world premiere at The Flea Theater in April 2010, directed by Jim Simpson. Her play Ben and The Magic Paintbrush premiered at South Coast Repertory Theater in June 2010. Other plays include Living Room in Africa (produced Off-Broadway by the award-winning Edge Theater), Nest (commissioned and produced by Signature Theater in DC), Until Morning (BBC Radio 4) and adaptations of Dickens’ Great Expectations (starring Kathleen Chalfant at The Lucille Lortel), Maeterlinck’s The Blind (Classic Stage Company), and Peer Gynt (directed by Andre Serban at the Theater of the Riverside Church).

She a recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award and three Lecomte du Nouy Lincoln Center playwriting awards (2009) and the Berwin Lee Playwright Award (2013)). She is a Cherry Lane Mentor Project Fellow and a Susan Blackburn Award finalist. Ms. Doran’s work has been developed by Manhattan Theatre Club, O’Neill Theatre Center, Lincoln Center, Sundance Theater Lab, Almeida Theatre (London), and Playwrights Horizons among others. She has written for Boardwalk Empire, for which she recieved a Dramatists Guild nomination in 2012.

Ms. Doran’s first play Feminine Wash was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe festival while she was a student at Cambridge University, from which she holds a BA and an MA. She then went on to Oxford University, where she received an MA before working as a television comedy writer with the BBC. Ms. Doran moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship in 2000 and received her MFA from Columbia University. She went on to become a playwriting fellow of The Juilliard School. She is currently under commission from Atlantic Theater and Playwrights Horizons in New York City and Schtanhaus in London. Her work is available from Samuel French and Playscripts Inc. She lives in New York City.