Bio
Erin Breznitsky is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work has been seen in NYC and abroad. Her play The Unwritten City was a semi-finalist for the 2016 Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and her latest work, Bodies of Water, was produced at the New York International Fringe Festival in August 2016. Other full-length works include R plus J (workshops: Rogue & Peasant Players; Paradise Factory), The Kitchen Table Plays (FringeNYC 2013; English Theatre of Rome, Italy), and Sverginata (Sarah Lawrence College). Her 10-minute plays have appeared in Six Part Productions' "Love Drunk" series and New York Madness.
As a sound designer, her work has appeared at NYC venues The Brick, Theaterlab, Triskelion Arts, Manhattan Rep, Midtown International Theatre Festival, Dixon Place, and Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program. She has also worked on various theatrical productions as producer, director, and stage manager.
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.
As a sound designer, her work has appeared at NYC venues The Brick, Theaterlab, Triskelion Arts, Manhattan Rep, Midtown International Theatre Festival, Dixon Place, and Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program. She has also worked on various theatrical productions as producer, director, and stage manager.
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.
Résumé
Full-Length Productions
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Aug 2016
May 2015 Nov 2014 Mar 2014 Aug 2013 Apr 2012 Dec 2011 *self-produced |
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 Plays
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Mar 2017
Sept 2016 May 2015 Oct 2014 |
Edge of the World & The War At Home (dir. Logan Reed)
Split Seconds (dir. Kelly Monroe Johnston) & Survival Town, or The Life And Death Of Miss Atomic Bomb (dir. Logan Reed) Advances (dir. Matthew Klein) & The Counter (dir. Kelly Monroe Johnston) Breakwater (dir. Jeff Aldrich) |
Love Drunk, Series 9 (NYC)
Love Drunk, Series 8 (NYC) Love Drunk, Series 3 (NYC) New York Madness (NYC) |
Readings & Workshops
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Nov 2016
2014-2015 Oct 2014 Winter 2013 July 2011 |
The Kitchen Table Plays (staged reading), dir. Barbara Waldinger
Play Development Group, Inaugural Member R plus J (staged reading), dir. Roxy MtJoy Playwrights Workshop La MaMa International Playwrights Retreat |
HRC Showcase Theatre (Hudson, NY)
Three Act Theatre Company (NYC) Drama League (NYC) led by Stuart Spencer (NYC) led by Erik Ehn (Spoleto, Italy) |
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 |
Arts Administration
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2013-2016
2007-2010 2006-2007 |
Director of Community Arts
Communications Manager Marketing Apprentice |
Sing for Hope (NYC)
McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, NJ) George Street Playhouse (New Brunswick, NJ) |
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) |
Awards, Honors & Panels
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2016
2012 2005, 2006 |
Semi-finalist, Princess Grace Playwriting Award (The Unwritten City)
Stanley & Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Playwriting AWP Conference Panelist |
Education
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2012
2006 |
MFA, Theatre
BA, Writing (music performance minor) |
Sarah Lawrence College (Bronxville, NY)
Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA) |
