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Rich Orloff is one of
the most popular unknown playwrights in the country. His plays have
received over 400 productions, numerous awards, and oodles of laughter.
*Full-length plays (mostly comedies) include:
ADVANCED CHEMISTRY
- winner, 2002 Pickering Award for Playwriting
Excellence
BIG BOYS
- winner, 1997 InterPlay International Play Festival
2nd place, 2002 Kaufman & Hart Prize for New American Comedy
DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY
- winner, 1999 Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
– New York magazine Off-Off-Broadway pick, 2005
LOVE SUCKS
- winner, 1994 Playwrights First Award
SHEDDING LIGHT
- winner, 2000 Abeles Foundation Playwrights Award
SOMEONE’S KNOCKING
- critic’s pick, Back Stage West, 1998
VERONICA'S POSITION
- winner, 1995 Festival of Emerging American Theatre
VIETNAM 101: THE WAR ON CAMPUS
(produced at colleges across the
country)
and the comic revues OY!
and ROMANTIC FOOLS
*Rich’s plays have been presented across the country at such theaters as American Stage
Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Dayton
Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Playwrights Theatre
of New Jersey, Shadowland Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, the WorkShop
Theater Company, twice at Theatre Conspiracy, and three times at the Key
West Theatre Festival.
*Author of over a dozen one-acts and over 50 short plays, these plays
have been published four times in the annual BEST AMERICAN SHORT
PLAYS anthology series; in anthologies published by Random House and
Western Michigan University Press; and in the bilingual collection,
AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN SHORT PLAYS (China).
Playscripts has published seven volumes of his plays. (For details,
visit Rich's page at
Playscripts.com.)
*Rich's
one-acts have had over 350 productions on six of the seven continents
(and a staged reading in Antarctica).
*Rich is one of five playwrights to get a 2003 Dramatists Guild
fellowship.
*Rich has also written for newspapers, magazines, radio, television,
industrial films, educational videos, advertising, and charity galas.
While in Kosovo in 2000, Rich wrote the children’s play
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS FIGHT
TUBERCULOSIS for Doctors of the
World.
*Rich lives in New York City, but he loves to travel (and has visited 32
states so far to develop productions, talk at colleges, and work as a
playwright).
*Rich is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America,
and the Foolish Theatre Company.
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