Read the plays
Born With Teeth: from TRW Plays; click here
Or,: from DPS; click here
Witch Hunt or, A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World: from TRW Plays; click here
Dog Act: from Playscripts; click here
The Salonnières: from TRW Plays; click here
Wet or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes: from TRW Plays; click here
The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge Of It or, The Train Play: from Playscripts; click here
Poodle With Guitar and Dark Glasses: from Playscripts; click here
Short plays Aphra Does Antwerp; The Last Woman on Earth; and Neon Mirage: from Playscripts; click here
The Broken Machine: from TRW Plays; click here.
Many of these are also available at the Drama Book Shop, NYC
Current & Upcoming
Københavns Shakespeare Kompagn (Copenhagen Shakespeare Company) is producing Or, in October.
Or, had a reading with Red Bull Theater in May at the Sheen Center on Bleecker Street, directed by GT Upchurch with Rebecca Hall, Santino Fontana, and b.
The Alley Theater production of Born With Teeth is running in rep at the Oregon Shakespeare Company now through October. It had a run at Asolo Repertory Theater with the original actors in March 2024.
Adams’ portrait from Sally Davies’ photography collection, New Yorkers (Ammonite Press 2021) is in the Museum of the City of New York’s “This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture” exhibit, through July 21, 2024.
2023
Witch Hunt or, A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World and The Salonnières are now published by TRW Plays
Born With Teeth was named a finalist for the Steinberg-ATCA New Play Award
The Alley Theatre’s production of Born with Teeth moved to the Guthrie Theater, March–April, 2023
2022
Born with Teeth is now published by TRW Plays
Born with Teeth was awarded Best Play/Production, Best New Play, and Best Actors in the 2022 Houston Theater Awards.
Born with Teeth premiered at the Alley Theatre, Houston, May–June 2022.
Main Street Theater, Houston, produced Dog Act for the second time in ten years, March–April 2022.
Dog Act was also produced at the Davis Center Georgetown University in November and by Convergence-Continuum, Cleveland, in March–April.
Or, was produced at University of Rhode Island and Oberlin College in December, and at Theatre22, Seattle, in April–May.
Lehigh University produced The Salonnières, September–October.
Adams taught playwriting as a guest artist at UMass Amherst, Fall ‘22.
2021
Born with Teeth was awarded an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award
Or, had a staged reading at the Octogon Theatre, Bolton UK
The Broken Machine had an online reading from the Magic Theater, San Francisco
Wild Thyme, an Artistic Stamp “play” in letters, was nominated for a Drama League award for Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater.
Portrait included in Sally Davies’ New Yorkers.
Taught playwriting (remotely) at Texas Tech University.
2021 productions: Dog Act: The Seeing Place Theater (virtual) and University of Florida School of Theatre + Dance. Or,: Portland Stage Company & Winnipesaukee Playhouse (part live/part online); Black Hills Community Theater.
Continued revising Margaret and the Djinn in the Plague Year.
2020
Visiting Professor of Playwriting Spring 2020 at Indiana University, Bloomington
Two scheduled world premieres were postponed by the pandemic (Born with Teeth at the Alley Theatre, Houston, and The Broken Machine at the Magic Theatre, San Francisco). But historical forces were weathered, an election was won, I did not get Covid, so I call 2020 a win.
Surviving productions of Or, at Actors Theatre of Columbus, Winnipesaukee Playhouse, and University of Memphis.
I wrote several drafts of a (potentially first) novel, working title Margaret and the Djinn in the Plague Year. More to come…
2019
A new play, Born with Teeth, had a workshop at the Alley Theater, Houston, this past October, and a reading at the Aurora Theater in Berkeley in September.
Wet or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes had a reading at a special event hosted by Upstart Creatures in NYC in September.
Another new play, The Broken Machine, commissioned by Lehigh University, was produced there in November.
Hangar Theatre produced Or, in June (for this production, the title was Or, What She Will).
Theodore U. Horger ’61 Artist-in-Residence in the Performing Arts at Lehigh University, 2018–2019
Productions of Dog Act: Fortune’s Fool Theatre; Flying Anvil Theatre; Scottsdale Community College
Other productions of Or,: Northfield Mount Hermon School; UW-Milwaukee Theatre; Theatre Prometheus, DC; Washington College, MD; Carnegie Melon University
2018
The Salonnières premiered at Greater Boston Theater Company October–November.
Artist's residency at Blue Mountain Center in the Adirondacks for the month of September.
Guest writer on Season 4 of Serial Box's Tremontaine, the serialized fantasy novel out now from Ellen Kushner, award-winning author of Swordspoint, and her team of writers.
Adams’ special Christmas episode of the serial historical fiction Whitehall was published by Serial Box.
A newly revised version of Wonders of the Invisible World was read at the Bridge Initiative's Her Voice series, January, Scottsdale, AZ, and had a staged reading at Shakespeare & Company's Winter Studio Festival of New Plays.
Productions of Dog Act: Columbia College Chicago; Ohio State University; Michigan State University; Lehigh University;, University of San Diego; Scottsdale Community College
Production of Wet or, Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes: Hendrix College, AR (February)
Productions of Or,: Kickshaw Theatre, MI; Theatre Institute at Sage; York College of PA
2017
Reading of new play, Dear Alien, at Playwrights Foundation Rough Reading Series, San Francisco, November.
Production of Or,: Round House Theatre, Bethesda, MD (March–April)
Other productions of Or,: Maiden Phoenix Theatre Company and Simple Machine, Boston (September); Olympia Little Theatre, WA (February); Mendocino Theatre Company, CA (April–May); Rice Players, Houston (November); Wagner College, NY (October)
2016
New Territories Playwriting Residency, Serenbe GA (January)
Production of Dog Act: Theater on Fire, Charlestown MA (April)
Whitehall: Historical fiction from Serial Box Publishing. Complete Season One available now here.
Reading of new play, Asterion, at The Bridge Initiative, Mesa AZ (September). Staged reading/workshop at Arizona State University (November)
Productions of Or,: Southwest Shakespeare Company, Mesa AZ (September); Shakespeare & Company, Lenox MA (July–September); Hovey Players, Waltham MA (May); Thinking Cap Theater, Ft. Lauderdale (Feb–March); Hedgerow Theater, Wallingford PA (Jan–Feb)
2015
Magic Theatre, San Francisco, Virgin Play Festival: readings of Off the Clock and The Salonniéres, December
Forward Theater's Out of the Fire: the Banned Books Monologues (Feb–March)
Staged reading of The Salonniéres at Hudson Stage Company (June)
The Reckless Ruthless Brutal Charge of It, or, The Train Play: Convergence-Continuum (June–July)
Productions of Or,: Off the Wall Performing Arts, Carnegie PA (January); Vermont Stage Company, Burlington (January–February); Double Dog Theater, Norfolk (January–February); Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble, St. Louis (February); Dobama Theatre, Cleveland (September); Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Seattle (September–October); Dragon Theatre, Palo Alto (October); New School for Social Research graduate production (Nov); Anton's Well Theater Company, Berkley (Nov–Dec)
2014
The Mysteries (multi-playwright project): Flea Theater NYC, April–July
Off the Clock: UMass New Plays Lab workshop, March–April.
Buccaneers: Oddfellows Playhouse, April
Dog Act: University of Denver, February; SUNY Orange, April
Des Voix Festival (San Francisco): Bal Litteraire, May 9th.
Des Voix Festival (Paris): staged reading of French translation of The Reckless Ruthless Ruthless Charge of It or, The Train Play at Théâtre des Bouffe du Nord, May 26th.
Or,: Forward Theatre Company, March/April; Tufts University, April; Mary Baldwin College, April; Off the Wall Theater Company, Dec–Jan
Writer-in-Residence at University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; September–December
A Discourse on the Wonders of the Invisible World: Moxie Theatre, September
Dog Act included in "Geek Theater," a science fiction play anthology from Underwords Press, out in November