Sally Oswald
Thurber Playwright in Residence, Winter Quarter2007

Sally Oswald is a playwright, librettist, editor, and advocate for adventurous new writing. Sally recently wrote a libretto for Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum's London Symphony Chorus commission and is at work on the text for Dan Hurlin's Everyday Uses for Sight, No. 4: Disfarmer. Her work has been developed or presented at the Flea Theatre (2005 residency), New Georges, The Ontological, Galapagos, St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab, The Public Theater, Little Theater at Tonic, Dixon Place, Voice and Vision, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Hangar Theatre, and Polybe+Seats. Honors include a Jerome Fellowship (2007-8), residencies at the MacDowell Colony (2006) and Millay Colony (2006), a Dramatists Guild Fellowship (2003-04), an Ensemble Studio Theatre New Voices Fellowship (2004), the Weston Award (2003), and the Kenneth Janes Theater Prize (2001). She holds an MFA from Brown University and a BA from Barnard College. Sally is the founder and co-editor with Jordan Harrison of Play: A Journal of Plays, the only American journal devoted to plays ( www.playjournal.com ). They have published 3 print issues, 8 postcard-plays and have received press in The Brooklyn Rail, Backstage, and American Theatre Magazine.

Related Events:
Staged Reading of Pony, a new play about sex, passing, and getting by, March 8, 2007 at 3:30pm