John Biguenet has published seven books, including Oyster, a novel,
and The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories, released in the United States
by Ecco/HarperCollins and widely translated. His work has received an
O. Henry Award for short fiction and a Harper's Magazine Writing Award
among other distinctions, and his poems, stories, plays, and essays
have been reprinted or cited in The Best American Mystery Stories,
Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Best American Short Stories,
Best Music Writing, Contemporary Poetry in America, Katrina on Stage,
and various other anthologies. His work has appeared in such magazines
as Granta, Esquire, North American Review, Oxford American, Playboy,
Storie [it] (Rome), Story, and Zoetrope. Named its first guest
columnist by The New York Times, Biguenet chronicled in both columns
and videos his return to New Orleans after its catastrophic flooding
and the efforts to rebuild the city.Biguenet’s radio play Wundmale,
which premiered on Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany's largest radio
network, was rebroadcast by Österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian
national radio and television network. Two of his stories have been
featured in Selected Shorts at Symphony Space on Broadway, the Long
Wharf Theatre, and elsewhere. The Vulgar Soul won the 2004 Southern
New Plays Festival and was a featured production in 2005 at Southern
Rep Theatre; he and the play were profiled in American Theatre
magazine. Rising Water was the winner of the 2006 National New Play
Network Commission Award, a 2006 National Showcase of New Plays
selection, and a 2007 recipient of an Access to Artistic Excellence
development and production grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts as well as the 2007 Big Easy Theatre Award for Best Original
Play; it has had numerous productions around the country.Shotgun, the
second play in his Rising Water cycle, premiered in 2009 at Southern
Rep Theatre, with subsequent productions at the Orlando Shakespeare
Theater and Florida Studio Theatre, both in 2010; it won a 2009
National New Play Network Continued Life of New Plays Fund Award and
was a 2009 recipient of an Access to Artistic Excellence development
and production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mold,
the final play in the trilogy, premiered in 2013 at Southern Rep
Theatre. This trilogy of plays about the flooding of New Orleans has
been the subject of articles in American Theatre, The American
Scholar, and elsewhere.He was awarded a Marquette Fellowship for the
writing of Night Train, which he developed on a Studio Attachment at
the National Theatre in London and which premiered at New Jersey Rep
Theatre in 2011. After performances at five new-play festivals and
reading series, his play Broomstick won a National New Play Network
Continued Life of New Plays Fund Award, premiering in an extended run
at New Jersey Repertory Company in 2013 and afterwards produced at
Montana Repertory Theatre, Southern Rep Theatre, Fountain Theatre (Los
Angeles), and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey in 2014. Broomstick
will be produced by Artists Repertory Theatre in October 2015.
and The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories, released in the United States
by Ecco/HarperCollins and widely translated. His work has received an
O. Henry Award for short fiction and a Harper's Magazine Writing Award
among other distinctions, and his poems, stories, plays, and essays
have been reprinted or cited in The Best American Mystery Stories,
Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, The Best American Short Stories,
Best Music Writing, Contemporary Poetry in America, Katrina on Stage,
and various other anthologies. His work has appeared in such magazines
as Granta, Esquire, North American Review, Oxford American, Playboy,
Storie [it] (Rome), Story, and Zoetrope. Named its first guest
columnist by The New York Times, Biguenet chronicled in both columns
and videos his return to New Orleans after its catastrophic flooding
and the efforts to rebuild the city.Biguenet’s radio play Wundmale,
which premiered on Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany's largest radio
network, was rebroadcast by Österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian
national radio and television network. Two of his stories have been
featured in Selected Shorts at Symphony Space on Broadway, the Long
Wharf Theatre, and elsewhere. The Vulgar Soul won the 2004 Southern
New Plays Festival and was a featured production in 2005 at Southern
Rep Theatre; he and the play were profiled in American Theatre
magazine. Rising Water was the winner of the 2006 National New Play
Network Commission Award, a 2006 National Showcase of New Plays
selection, and a 2007 recipient of an Access to Artistic Excellence
development and production grant from the National Endowment for the
Arts as well as the 2007 Big Easy Theatre Award for Best Original
Play; it has had numerous productions around the country.Shotgun, the
second play in his Rising Water cycle, premiered in 2009 at Southern
Rep Theatre, with subsequent productions at the Orlando Shakespeare
Theater and Florida Studio Theatre, both in 2010; it won a 2009
National New Play Network Continued Life of New Plays Fund Award and
was a 2009 recipient of an Access to Artistic Excellence development
and production grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mold,
the final play in the trilogy, premiered in 2013 at Southern Rep
Theatre. This trilogy of plays about the flooding of New Orleans has
been the subject of articles in American Theatre, The American
Scholar, and elsewhere.He was awarded a Marquette Fellowship for the
writing of Night Train, which he developed on a Studio Attachment at
the National Theatre in London and which premiered at New Jersey Rep
Theatre in 2011. After performances at five new-play festivals and
reading series, his play Broomstick won a National New Play Network
Continued Life of New Plays Fund Award, premiering in an extended run
at New Jersey Repertory Company in 2013 and afterwards produced at
Montana Repertory Theatre, Southern Rep Theatre, Fountain Theatre (Los
Angeles), and Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey in 2014. Broomstick
will be produced by Artists Repertory Theatre in October 2015.
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