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History

Abingdon Theatre Company was founded by five theatre artists with one common goal — to develop and produce new plays exclusively by American playwrights. In January 1993, a group of professional theatre artists eager for ongoing collaboration and greater control over their creative lives gathered in a brownstone near New York City's Abingdon Square Park for a series of bi-weekly readings of new plays. After a few months of informal meetings, enthusiasm swelled and the artists pooled their theatrical experience to establish an open-door home where they could collaborate, invite their colleagues to join the process, and develop new plays by American playwrights.


Mainstage Productions

Year Play Title Playwright Director
1995 Evangeline and
God and German Games
Berrilla Kerr Alex Dmitriev
1995 Glory Girls Jan Buttram Cathey Crowell
Sawyer
1996 Bringing Mother Down Lanie Robertson Craig Fols
1996 Cedar Creek Ed Steele Taylor Brooks
1997 The Most Important American
Playwright Since
Tennessee Williams
William Shuman Elaine Smith
1997 Hail to the Chef Michael Dempsey Robert Roznowski
1998 Dance with Me Jean Reynolds Alan Wynroth
1998 Private Battles Jan Buttram Stephen Hollis
1999 The Appearance of Impropriety John Petrick Kate Bushmann
1999 Cannibal’s Waltz Lanie Robertson Lanie Robertson
2000 Zona, the Ghost of Greenbrier Jan Buttram James F. Wolk
2001 Little Fishes Steven Haworth Kim T. Sharp
2001 The Appointment Bob Clyman Wendy Liscow
2001 The Mooncalf Elisabeth Karlin Sturgis Warner
2002 The Parker Family Circus Jan Buttram Taylor Brooks
2002 Teddy Tonight! Laurence Luckinbill Kim T. Sharp
2003 Daisy in the Dreamtime Lynne Kaufman Kim T. Sharp
2003 Beyond Recognition John Petrick Kate Bushmann
2004 The Pagans Ann Noble Stephen Hollis
2004 God’s Daughter Barton Bishop Alex Dmitriev
2005 Texas Homos Jan Buttram Melvin Bernhardt
2005 War in Paramus Barbara Dana Austin Pendleton
2006 December Fools Sherman Yellen Donald Brenner
2006 Elvis and Juliet Mary Willard Yvonne Conybeare
2006 My Deah John Epperson Mark Waldrop
2007 The Frugal Repast Ron Hirsen Joe Grifasi
2007 The President and
Her Mistress
Jan Buttram Rob Urbinati
2007 The Goldman Project Staci Swedeen Joe Brancato
2008 Rum & Coke Carmen Paláez Carl Andress
2008 Beachwood Drive Steven Leigh Morris Alan Mandell
2009 Greek Holiday Mayo Simon Stephen Hollis

Studio Productions

 

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1998 The Appearance
of Impropriety
John Petrick Kate Bushmann
1998 Cannibal’s Waltz Lanie Robertson Rasa Allan Kazlas
1999 The Appointment Bob Clyman Wendy Liscow
1999 Zona, The Ghost
of Greenbrier
Jan Buttram Jan Buttram
1999 Fiction Only, Please Peter Herrick Mark Finley
2000 Little Fishes Steven Haworth Kim T. Sharp
2000 Celebrity Fish Dante Dincecco C.C. Banks
2000 Good People Jean Reynolds Alan Wynroth
2001 The Parker Family
Circus
Jan Buttram Taylor Brooks
2001 Beautiful Clear-Eyed Woman Diana Amsterdam Kim T. Sharp
2001 Beyond Recognition John Petrick Kate Bushmann
2002 Slight Alterations Ron E. Edens Tom Rowan
2002 Sucker Fish Messiah Ryan Michael Teller Taylor Brooks
2002 Uncle Dan Joe Byers William Lipscomb
2003 God’s Daughter Barton Bishop Alex Dmitriev
2003 Bruno Hauptmann Kissed
My Forehead
John Yearley James F. Wolk
2003 The Maginot Line Margaret Hunt Kent Paul
2004 Texas Homos Jan Buttram Melvin Bernhardt
2004 Graduation Day Barton Bishop Alex Dmitriev
2004 Leap John Yearley William Lipscomb
2004 Hemingway Laurence Luckinbill Benjamin Luckinbill
2005 Swimming with Sturgeon Ezra Goldstein Sturgis Warner
2005 In the Arms of Baby Jesus Michèle Raper
Rittenhouse
Carole Mansley
2005 Daniella Uses Dirty Words Matthew Moses Kim T. Sharp
2006 My Deah John Epperson Mark Waldrop
2006 Foggy Bottom James Armstrong Rob Urbinati
2007 Dreams of Friendly Aliens Daniel Damiano Kim T. Sharp
2007 The Greenhouse Effect * Michael Deep Kate Bushmann
2007 Cry Havoc Tom Coash Kim T. Sharp
2008 Another Vermeer* Bruce J. Robinson Kelly Morgan
2008 The English Channel Robert Brustein Daniela Varon
2009 Freudian Slips Marvin Lifschitz Tom Bloom
2009 Love Drunk Romulus Linney Kelly Morgan
*Received the AB*IE Award for outstanding play.

The Pagans
by Ann Noble
Steven Rishard and Frank Anderson (l. to r.)
(Photo by Kim T. Sharp)

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