Check out ArtsATL’s Year In Review, where RAVENS & SEAGULLS clocked in as #8 of the top 10 best plays, with Suzanne Roush named Best Actress for her work in that play and David Crowe dubbed Best Director.
1
Jordan Pulliam
BAT-HAMLET was Jordan’s first full-length work, premiering with Essential in 2012 and going on to be produced three more times since then, in Charleston,
2
Lauren Gunderson
Happy final Monday of our 40 Days of Essential Playwrights series!
In case you haven’t noticed, Monday posts, falling at the start of the week,
3
Peter Hardy
Not only is Peter the founder of Essential Theatre, he is a national award-winning playwright himself who’s had over 30 productions of his work done around the country.
5
Gabriel Jason Dean
After the Essential Theatre premiere in 2010, Gabriel Jason Dean and the folks at the Source Theatre Festival in Washington, D.D. Theatre made significant revisions to the play and presented it again in 2012.
6
Matthew Myers
Matthew Myers first came to Essential as an actor in 2010 and later contributed a couple of pieces to THE LOCAL, a collaborative theater project about Atlanta that premiered in the 2012 Essential Festival.
7
Karla Jennings
Essential first premiered a play by Karla Jennings in 2000, IMAGES IN SMOKE, and she again won the playwriting prize in 2014 for RAVENS &
8
Karen Wurl
Though Essential first produced Karen’s work in 1999, in 2005 she was chosen Creative Loafing Atlanta‘s Best Local Playwright for her world premiere of MISS MACBETH in the Essential Play Festival that year.
