Liz Duffy Adams’ Born With Teeth will have its UK premiere with the Royal Shakespeare Company, co-produced by Playful Productions and Elizabeth Williams, at Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End, directed by RSC co-Artistic Director Daniel Evans and starring Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel.

Born With Teeth was an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award recipient and a Steinberg-ATCA New Play Award Finalist, and had its world premiere at the Alley Theater in 2022, a production that won Best Play/Production, 2022 Houston Press Awards, and that moved to the Guthrie Theatre, Asolo Rep, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Adams’ neo-Restoration comedy Or, premiered Off Broadway at WP Theater and has been produced more than 80 times since, including at the Magic Theater, Seattle Rep, and Roundhouse Theatre. She’s a New Dramatists alumna and has received a Women of Achievement Award, Lillian Hellman Award, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Weston Playhouse Music-Theater Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and the Will Glickman Award for Best New Play (Dog Act, a post-apocalyptic vaudeville). Her Artistic Stamp virtual play in letters, Wild Thyme, was nominated for a 2021 Drama League Award for Outstanding Interactive or Socially-Distanced Theater.

Publications include Or, in Smith & Kraus’ “Best Plays Of 2010;” Dog Act in “Geek Theater,” Underwords Press 2014; Poodle With Guitar And Dark Glasses in Applause’s “Best American Short Plays 2000-2001;” and acting editions by TRW Plays, Playscripts, Inc. and Dramatists Play Service. The UK trade edition of Born With Teeth is coming soon from Nick Hern Books.

Adams began her theatrical life as a performer, receiving her BFA in acting at NYU where she trained first at the Stella Adler Academy and then at the Experimental Theater Wing. She went on to write, devise, and perform a series of experimental theater pieces at various downtown venues, and act in Off Off Broadway productions of Macbeth, Tartuffe, and Love for Love. Eventually she wrote her first play, A Fabulous Beast, which was produced by the late One Dream Theater in Tribeca starring Edie Falco, and got her MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.

Adams has dual Irish and American citizenship, and lives in New York City on Lanape land, and in Western Massachusetts on unceded Pocumtuc and Nipmuc territory.