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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