Adam Bock
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Martin Toner, Roberta Terkowitz, and Michael Singleton Join Second Stage's Board of Trustees (Jul 11, 2025)
BIO
Adam Bock's The Drunken City was produced at Playwrights Horizons in 2008. His play The Receptionist received its World Premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in the fall of 2007 to a sold-out extended run. The play has had many stock and amateur productions around the country, including last fall, starring Megan Mullally at The Odyssey Theatre in LA. His other works include The Thugs (Obie Award), Swimming in the Shallows (3 BATCC Awards, Clauder Award), Five Flights (Glickman Award), The Typographer's Dream, The Shaker Chair and Three Guys and a Brenda (Heideman Award). His plays have been commissioned, developed and produced in NYC by MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, Soho Rep, Primary Stages, The Vineyard, Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, and regionally at Yale, Trinity Rep, the O'Neill, the Humana Festival, UCross/Sundance, in San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Salt Lake, Montreal, Toronto, London, and Edinburgh, among others. He is the resident playwright at Encore Theater, a Shotgun Players artistic associate, and a New Dramatists member playwright. He is currently writing a screenplay for Scott Rudin/Miramax.
Awards and Nominations
Adam Bock, A Life
Adam Bock, A Small Fire
winner
Adam BockThe Thugs
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Adam Bock has written 8 shows including Swimming in the Shallows (Playwright), The 24 Hour Plays 2005 (Playwright), The 24 Hour Plays 2006 (Playwright), The Receptionist (Playwright), The Receptionist (Playwright), The Drunken City (Playwright), A Small Fire (Playwright), A Life (Playwright).
Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for A Life, Outstanding Play (Drama Desk Awards) for A Small Fire and Playwriting (Obie Awards) for The Thugs.
Adam Bock won the Obie Award for Playwriting for his work on The Thugs.
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