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Joe Sutton (playwright)   59E59.  More recently still, Joe's play
                 has written plays including   Robey won the Liberty Live commission
                 Voir Dire (nominated for   given by Premiere Stages and was
                 the Pulitzer Prize and the   workshopped in the Fall of 2019.  This
                 Best Play Award of the   past year Joe’s play Twirl won the Julie
                 American Theatre Critics   Harris Award given by the Beverly Hills
                 Association), As It Is In   Theatre Guild (the third time one of
                 Heaven, The Third Army,   Joe’s plays has won this award.)  In
                 and Restoring the Sun.   addition to his theatre work, Joe has
      Theatres producing Joe’s plays include   developed a pilot for television called
      New York Theater Workshop, Long     Scales of Justice (USA Network).  A
      Wharf, Arena Stage, BAM, the Cleveland  recipient of numerous awards and
      Play House, and the Old Globe.  Some   honors, among them fellowships from
      time ago, Joe’s play Complicit opened at  NYFA, the NEA, and this year, for a
      London’s Old Vic and is now playing   second time, from NJ Arts, Joe taught
      around the world, most recently at   playwriting for many years at
      Heidelberg’s Zimmertheater.  More   Dartmouth College.  Joe lives with his
      recently, Joe’s play Orwell In America   wife Anne at their home in West
      premiered at Northern Stage before   Orange, New Jersey.
      continuing on to a successful run at
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