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The Evening premiered at The Kitchen in downtown New York, in the spring of 2015
Samara premiered at Soho Rep. in New York, in the spring of 2017
Ben Brantley, New York Times: “perhaps the greatest American experimental theater auteur of his generation”
Maxwell is the Artistic Director of New York City Players
Recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, Obie Award (for House) and Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Co-founder of the Cook County Theater Department in Chicago
His work has been presented in over sixteen countries, including Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Argentina and Australia.
Samara includes a song by Steve Earle, who was in the original Soho Rep. production.
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Richard Maxwell
Richard Maxwell brings the skills he developed in his twenty-five-year career as a screen and television writer-producer to FirstVoice's clients. In addition to his produced feature films—The Challenge, The Serpent and the Rainbow, and Shadow of China—he has worked as a script doctor, writing or rewriting films for every one of the major Hollywood studios and many independent producers. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California, with his wife, Christine.
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