BIO
Erin Breznitsky is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work has been seen in NYC and abroad. Most recently, her play Satellites was named the winner of Premiere Stages’ 2022 Play Festival and will receive its world premiere in 2023. Erin has been a finalist for Shakespeare's New Contemporaries, a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwright’s Conference and the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and her full-length plays have received workshop productions at FringeNYC, Rogue & Peasant Players, and English Theatre of Rome, Italy. Her numerous 10-minute plays have appeared in Six Part / Reign or Shine Productions' "Love Drunk" series and New York Madness. Other recent projects include an Urban Stages commission for young audiences; producing "Amplify," an International Women's Voices Day event showcasing the work of woman playwrights; and “The Living Mural,” a socially distant pop-up performance in summer 2020.
Erin has participated in workshops with Erik Ehn, Lucy Thurber, and Stuart Spencer, among others. She is the recipient of the Lipkin Prize for Playwriting and a full scholarship to La MaMa's International Playwrights Retreat in Spoleto, Italy. She holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
Erin has participated in workshops with Erik Ehn, Lucy Thurber, and Stuart Spencer, among others. She is the recipient of the Lipkin Prize for Playwriting and a full scholarship to La MaMa's International Playwrights Retreat in Spoleto, Italy. She holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
RÉSUMÉ
*self-produced project
Full-Length Productions
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Aug 2016
May 2015 Nov 2014 Mar 2014 Aug 2013 Apr 2012 Dec 2011 |
Bodies of Water* (AEA showcase), dir. Emerie Snyder
R plus J (AEA showcase), dir. Kelly Monroe Johnston R plus J* (AEA showcase), dir. Roxy MtJoy The Kitchen Table Plays (non-professional), dir. Eve Atkinson & Don Carroll The Kitchen Table Plays* (non-professional), dir. Tamara Winters R plus J (student), dir. Roxy MtJoy Sverginata (student), dir. Tamara Winters |
FringeNYC / WOW Cafe (NYC)
Rogue & Peasant Players / TheaterLab (NYC) Paradise Factory (NYC) English Theatre of Rome (Rome, Italy) FringeNYC / Teatro Circulo (NYC) SLC Gradworks (Bronxville, NY) Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY) |
Short/One-Act
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Fall 2020
Winter 2018-19 Jan 2018 Oct 2014 |
Shelter (monologue), dir. Anna Strasser, performed by Wilson Douglas
The Amazing Ava's Great Escape (commission), dir. Ilanna Saltzman Just Animals* (reading), dir. Erin Breznitsky Breakwater, dir. Jeff Aldrich |
The Living Mural (NYC)
Urban Stages Outreach (NYC) Amplify*: International Women's Voices Day event (NYC) New York Madness (NYC) |
Love Drunk Reading Series (Reign or Shine Productions)
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Nov 2019
Mar 2018 Mar 2017 Sept 2016 May 2015 |
The Heirloom (dir. Ilanna Saltzman) & Suffragettes (dir. Erin Breznitsky)
This Is (a love story) & Last Call (a ghost story) (dir. Phoebe Padget) Edge of the World & The War At Home (dir. Logan Reed) Split Seconds (dir. Kelly Monroe Johnston) & Survival Town (dir. Logan Reed) Advances (dir. Matthew Klein) & The Counter (dir. Kelly Monroe Johnston) |
Love Drunk, Series 22 (NYC)
Love Drunk, Series 14 (NYC) Love Drunk, Series 9 (NYC) Love Drunk, Series 8 (NYC) Love Drunk, Series 3 (NYC) |
Readings/Workshops
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Apr 2022
Oct 2020 Aug 2017 Nov 2016 2014-2015 Oct 2014 Winter 2013 July 2011 |
Satellites (reading), dir. John Wooten
Satellites (virtual reading), dir. Ilanna Saltzman R plus J (industry reading), dir. Phoebe Padget The Kitchen Table Plays (staged reading), dir. Barbara Waldinger The Unwritten City (workshop) R plus J (staged reading), dir. Roxy MtJoy Playwrights Workshop La MaMa International Playwrights Retreat |
Premiere Stages at Kean University (Union, NJ)
Reign or Shine Productions Rogue & Peasant Players @ Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA) HRC Showcase Theatre (Hudson, NY) Three Act Theatre Company Play Development Group (NYC) Drama League (NYC) led by Stuart Spencer (NYC) led by Erik Ehn (Spoleto, Italy) |
Awards
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2022
2021 2020 2019 2019 2017 2017 2016 2012 |
Winner, Premiere Stages Play Festival (Satellites)
Semi-Finalist, O'Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference (Satellites) Finalist, Shakespeare's New Contemporaries at American Shakespeare Center (R plus J: a new play) Semi-Finalist, Landing Theatre Company New American Voices Festival (Survival Town, or The Life And Death Of Miss Atomic Bomb) Semi-Finalist, The Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep (Just Animals) Finalist, Tofte Lake Emerging Artist Program Finalist, Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround PlayGroup Semi-finalist, Princess Grace Playwriting Award (The Unwritten City) Stanley & Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting |
Education
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2012
2006 |
MFA, Theatre
BA, Writing (music performance minor) |
Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA) |
Additional Work
Arts Administration
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2021-present
2020-2021 2013-2016 2007-2010 2006-2007 |
Project Manager, Theatrical Licensing
Editorial Assistant Director of Community Arts Communications Manager Marketing Apprentice |
Disney Theatrical Group (NYC)
Bellevue Literary Review (NYC) Sing for Hope (NYC) McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, NJ) George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, NJ) |
Sound Designs
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June 2014
Apr 2013 Mar 2013 Nov 2012 Sept 2012 July 2012 June 2012 Mar 2012 |
Mahogany Brown & the Case of the Disappearing Kid, dir. Megan Kosmoski
Tell Them Nothing, dir. Julianna Rusakiewicz The Collective, dir. Jaki Bradley The Brightness of Heaven, dir. Ludovica Villar-Hauser VGL 5'4" Top, dir. Matthew Klein Domestic, dir. Roxy MtJoy The Natives Are Restless, dir. Amy R. Surratt Electric Bathing, dir. Sarah Provost/Lake Simons |
The Brick
TheaterLab Triskelion Arts Manhattan Rep Under St. Marks Midtown Int'l Theatre Festival Dixon Place Mabou Mines RAP |
Graduate Productions
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Feb 2012
April 2011 Mar 2011 Feb 2011 Oct 2010 |
Crazyface, dir. Ernest Abuba
Table for Three, by Matthew Klein At Home, by Michael Weller We Own These Girls, by James Simmons St. Joan of the Stockyards, dir. Jeanette Plourde |
Stage Manager
Director Director Assistant Director Music Director/Arrangements |
Teaching
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Aug 2013
Fall 2011 2010-2011 2010-2011 |
Playwriting Instructor
Teaching Assistant (to Marilyn Sokol) After-School Drama Instructor, 4th Grade Drama Instructor, Teenage Group |
Sing for Hope Summer Arts Intensive (NYC)
Lehman College (Bronx, NY) Parker Elementary School (Mount Vernon, NY) SLC Lunchbox Theatre (Bronxville, NY) |
