ANDREW
CASE’S
plays
include Pacific, Bullhead City, Historic Times, The Electric Century,
Universal Grammar, In Loco Parentis, and others. His writing has been
produced at Steppenwolf , the 78th Street Theatre Lab, the Salon for
the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Theatre AUM, the Fifth Night Series
at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, and elsewhere. His work has been developed
at the Manhattan Theatre Club, the Atlantic Theatre, Primary Stages,
and the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. He is a member of the New
American Writers Group at Primary Stages and a former Manhattan Theatre
Club playwriting fellow, and was awarded the Samuel Goldwyn Award for
screenwriting while he was an MFA student at UC San Diego. In addition
to his work as a playwright, he is the director of communications and
spokesman for the Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent New
York City agency that investigates police misconduct. As a former investigator
he has experience investigating police abuse, including death in custody.
Other writing includes limericks featured on NPR’s Wait, Wait,
Don’t Tell Me! and a number of internet hoaxes, including “Thomas
Pynchon is the Unabomber” (1995) and the parody blog “The
Right Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr.” (2006)
THE
RANT
A boy is dead at the hands of the police. The investigator assigned
to the case must wade through prejudice, deceit, and a volley of anonymous
threats to find out where culpability really lies. The truth itself
is a kind of bias.
