LUCY
THURBER
is the author of seven plays, Where We’re Born, Ashville, Scarcity,
Killers and Other Family, Stay, Bottom of The World and Monstrosity.
Her play STAY will be produced by Rattlestick in the fall of 2006. Her
play Bottom of The World will be produced by WET and was workshopped
by WET at The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Center. Bottom
of the World was part of the first Tribeca Theater festival and received
a workshop at The Public Theater. She attended New River Dramatists
in North Carolina. Her play Where We’re Born was produced at Rattlestick
Theater in the fall of 2003. Killers and other Family was produced at
Rattlestick Theater in 2001. She was the recipient of the 2000/2001
Manhattan Theatre Club playwriting fellowship. Also in 2001 she was
commissioned by The Keene Theater company to write a short piece called
The Kool Aid Smile, which was presented in “Keene America”.
She was a guest artist at The Perseverance Theater twice, where she
helped to adapt both Moby Dick and Desire Under The Elms. She has had
readings and workshops at Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Group, Primary
Stages, MCC, Encore Theatre in San Fransico and SOHO Rep. Her ten-minute
play Dinner is published in a collection called, Not So Sweet, 16 plays
from SOHO Rep’s 10-minute play festival. She is a member of MCC
Playwrights’ Coalition, Primary Stages writing group, 13P and
New Dramatists.
SCARCITY
What would you pay for freedom? Who would
you betray to feel hope. Scarcity explores the themes of family, loyalty,
poverty and class in small town America. Billy and Rachel Lawrence struggle
with high school, intelligence and a desperate family has they try to
find a way out of where the come from while still leaving their family
intact.
