Bob Clyman

Bob Clyman’s plays have been produced Off-Broadway and at regional theaters, including the Alley Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, San Jose Repertory Theatre, George Street Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Colony Studio Theatre in Los Angeles, Writers Theatre of New Jersey, and L.A. Theatre Works, in addition to touring Scotland. His play Secret Order was produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre under the auspices of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and received an Outer Circle Critics Award nomination for Best Script after its production at 59E59 Theatre. His plays Tranced and The Exceptionals were both supported by Edgerton Foundation New American Play Awards. The Exceptionals was nominated for both Best Play and Best New Play of 2012 by The Independent Reviewers of New England and was chosen for Ashland New Plays Festival (2010). His play The Good Bet won the Stanley Drama Award (2015) and was chosen for Ashland New Plays Festival (2014). He has been awarded a number of national prizes, including a Eugene O’Neill Conference Playwrights Fellowship, a Geraldine Dodge Fellowship, Playwrights First Award, New Jersey State Arts Council Award, Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship, Berilla-Kerr Foundation Award, Djerassi Foundation Fellowship and Shenandoah Valley Playwrights Fellowship.