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| Formation | June 1, 1975 (1975-06-01) |
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| Type | Theatre group |
| Purpose | Avant-garde theatre[1] |
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| Membership | --Directors-- Cynthia Flowers Caleb Hammons Eric Ting[2] |
| Website | sohorep |
TheSoho Repertory Theatre, known asSoho Rep,[3] is an AmericanOff-Broadwaytheater company based inNew York City which is notable for producingavant-garde plays by contemporary writers.[1][4][5][6] The company, described as a "cultural pillar", is currently located in a 65-seat theatre in theTriBeCa section of lowerManhattan.[7] The company, and the projects it has produced, have won multiple prizes and earned critical acclaim, including numerousObie Awards,Drama Desk Awards,Drama Critics' Circle Awards, and aPulitzer Prize.[8] A recent highlight was winning the Drama Desk Award for Sustained Achievement for "nearly four decades of artistic distinction, innovative production, and provocative play selection."[9][10][11]
Notable artists who have recently created work at the theater, often early in their careers, include:David Adjmi,César Alvarez,Annie Baker,Alice Birch, Christopher Chen,Jackie Sibblies Drury,debbie tucker green,Aleshea Harris,Lucas Hnath,Branden Jacobs-Jenkins,Daniel Alexander Jones,Young Jean Lee,Richard Maxwell, Nature Theater of Oklahoma andAnne Washburn.
TheNew York Times has described it as a "safer home for dangerous plays".[12] Critics note the “jaw dropping premieres” and “big plays in a small room”[13] as defining features of the theater’s programming.New Yorker theatre criticHilton Als wrote about current directorSarah Benson:
Under her directorship I have never seen a boring production—a very rare thing, indeed. Her deeply individual sensibility is not compromised by needs other than those of the work at hand, and it’s that freedom, structured around shows that I may not agree with but always learn from, that distinguishes the SoHo Rep... Benson has imbued each work with a tough, unsentimental core; she’s also made the plays into distinct visual works that help us see the words.
— Hilton Als inThe New Yorker[14]
In 2019 the company adopted a shared leadership model.[15] The three Directors of the theater of the companySarah Benson, Cynthia Flowers, and Meropi Peponides led the theater until Benson and Peponides' departure in 2023.
In 2023, Caleb Hammons and Eric Ting joined Cynthia Flowers as co-directors of the theater.[2]
The company has an annual budget of around $2 million and employs a full-time staff of seven. In 2020, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the company put eight artists on salary for the 2020-21 season through the creation of a job creation program titled Project Number One referencingFederal Project Number One.[16][17]
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The Soho Repertory Theatre company was founded in 1975 by Jerry Engelbach and Marlene Swartz.[18] From June through September 1975, they remodeled a former textile factory inSoHo. They wanted the space to feel "light and informal" so the audience would feel comfortable.[19] They produced their first play,Maxwell Anderson'sKey Largo, on September 25. Their initial focus was on rarely seen classical plays, such as works byAristophanes,Shakespeare,Molière,Jean Anouilh,Michel de Ghelderode,Eugene O'Neill andSamuel Beckett.[18][20] By 1979, the company was sometimes producing two shows per night, allowing audiences to see both plays in succession on a Saturday night.[18] The founding duo produced more than a hundred plays until Engelbach left in 1989.[21]
Since its early days, the company's focus has shifted to contemporaryavant-garde theatrical works. In 1981, after producing works fromShakespeare toShaw, the company produced its first new play: Stephen Davis Parks'The Idol Makers.[22] Among the many new works presented were plays by Americans Len Jenkin andMac Wellman.
After 1989, Swartz partnered with English director Julian Webber, and they worked together for the next decade until Swartz departed in 1999.[23] The company was run by Artistic Director Daniel Aukin from 1998 to 2006, and he produced new work by artists includingAdam Bock,Young Jean Lee,Richard Maxwell,Melissa James Gibson, andMaría Irene Fornés.
Sarah Benson was appointed as Artistic Director in 2007. Around this time, the company transitioned from the smallerOff-off-Broadway model of less than 100 seats to anOff-Broadway contract, typically reserved for theatres with a 100-499seat capacity.[24]
Benson and Flowers ran the theater together from 2012 until being joined by Producer Meropi Peponides in 2014.[25] In the last decade the company has taken on ambitious projects often winning awards and critical acclaim.[26][27][28][29] One of Benson's first plays was writerSarah Kane’sBlasted[30][31][32] which won the director anObie Award.[26][33] Benson's production ofBranden Jacobs-Jenkins'sAn Octoroon won an Obie for Best New American Play and transferred toTheatre for a New Audience.[34] Taibi Magar's production ofAleshea Harris' 'Is God Is' re-opened Walkerspace in 2018 following renovations and won multiple Obie awards.[35] Benson directed Jackie Sibblies Drury's 'Fairview' which won the 2019Pulitzer Prize for Drama and had an extended run. The company celebrates with an annual gala usually in the spring, sometimes on a rooftop.[36][37][38]
During the forty-five years of its existence, the theatre has produced in several venues in lower Manhattan, often being forced to move because of issues with rent or city building requirements, and survived from time to time with help from city authorities and supporters.[39] Its first space in 1975 on 19 Mercer Street was in a converted hat warehouse, described by the founders as a "practical adaptation of the Shakespearean playhouse laid out in a modest modern space".[18][40][41][42] In 1985, Bob Moss ofPlaywrights Horizons, assisted by the mayor's office and a grant from the Manhattan Borough President, helped them relocate to a 100-seat neo-classical theater attached to Bellevue Hospital.[43] While the theatre had a separate entrance from the psychiatric hospital, sometimes backstage their actors and writers rode the same elevator with patients, recalled playwrightMac Wellman.[44] After a year they moved to Greenwich Village, and stayed there until 1991,[45] when they found their present-day space at 46 Walker Street inTribeca. DubbedWalkerspace, the present theatre is only a few blocks from the company's original venue.[46] The company has been at this location except for a short period for building renovations, which had been paid for with a fundraising campaign as well as help from the city's building commissioner, Rick Chandler andJulie Menin.[47][7] In July 2024, Soho Rep announced it would be leaving its longtime home of Walkerspace, citing rising rent costs, lack of accessibility, and the costs of persistent repairs. The company will share space withPlaywrights Horizons as it considers long-term plans.[48]
Since 2019, Soho Rep has used a shared leadership model.
| Season | Title | Playwright | Director | Awards | Producing Partners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975–76 (Season 1) | 19 Mercer Street | ||||
| Key Largo[20] | Maxwell Anderson | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| The Master Builder[53] | Henrik Ibsen | Marlene Swartz | |||
| Coriolanus | William Shakespeare | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| The Congresswomen | Aristophanes, translation and music by William and Billie Snow | Marlene Swartz | |||
| The Infernal Machine | Jean Cocteau | Michael Wright | |||
| Anna Christie[54] | Eugene O'Neill | Marlene Swartz | |||
| Heartbreak House[54] | George Bernard Shaw | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| The Father[54] | August Strindberg, adapted by Jonathan Furst | Jonathan Furst | |||
| Abelard and Eloise[55] | Ronald Duncan | Charles Conwell | |||
| The Imaginary Invalid[56] | Molière, translation by Frances Kosbab | Marlene Swartz | |||
| Bimbos in Paradise[57] | B. Prune | Michael Wright | |||
| Private Lives[58] | Noël Coward | Jack H. Cunningham | |||
| Candida[58] | George Bernard Shaw | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| 1976–77 (Season 2) | Six Play Subscription Costs $12 | ||||
| The Birthday Party[59] | Harold Pinter | Marlene Swartz | |||
| Dracula[60] | Bram Stoker, adapted by Jerry Engelbach | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Faustus X Seven | Based on "Doctor Faustus," byChristopher Marlowe, adapted by Jerry Engelbach | Carol Corwen and Jerry Engelbach | |||
| The Merchant of Venice[54] | William Shakespeare | Marlene Swartz | |||
| Billy Liar[61] | Keith Waterhouse andWillis Hall | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Uncle Vanya[62] | Anton Chekhov, adapted by Marlene Swartz | Marlene Swartz | |||
| Spring's Awakening[62] | Frank Wedekind, adapted by Carol Corwen and Mary Eileen O'Donnell | Carol Corwen | |||
| Back to Methuselah[62] | George Bernard Shaw | Stephen R. Lieb | |||
| What the Butler Saw[63] | Joe Orton | Marlene Swartz | |||
| The Dock Brief[54] | John Mortimer | Steven Burch | |||
| The Public Eye[54] | Peter Shaffer | Stephen R. Lieb | |||
| Black Comedy[62] | Peter Shaffer | Frank Cento | |||
| Under Milk Wood[62] | Dylan Thomas | Harrison Ewing | |||
| July 2 andThanksgiving | Stan Kaplan | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Rain | John Colton and Clemence Randolph, based on the novel byW. Somerset Maugham | Jack H. Cunningham | |||
| Ghosts | Henrik Ibsen | Marlene Swartz | |||
| 1977–78 (Season 3) | Misalliance | George Bernard Shaw | Trueman Kelley | ||
| The Miser | Molière | Moshe Yassur | |||
| Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Carol Corwen | Carol Corwen | |||
| The Chairs | Eugène Ionesco | Jon Fraser | |||
| Better Dead | Georges Feydeau, adapted by Jude Schanzer and Michael Wells | Jude Schanzer | |||
| Cyrano DeBergerac | Edmond Rostand | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Poe in Person, one-man show | Conrad Pomerleau | Conrad Pomerleau | |||
| Traveler Without Luggage | Jean Anouih | Marlene Swartz | |||
| The Play's the Thing | Ferenc Molnár | Jack H. Cunningham | |||
| Mister T | Michael Zettler | Stephen Zuckerman | |||
| The Killing of Sister George | Frank Marcus | Marlene Swartz | |||
| The Magistrate | Arthur Wing Pinero | Jim Milton | |||
| The Four Little Girls | Pablo Picasso | Richard Gershman | |||
| The Soho Theatre of the Air, an evening of vintage radio plays | Conceived and Adapted by Carol Corwen | Carol Corwen | |||
| The Real Inspector Hound | Tom Stoppard | Timothy Brennan | |||
| Philadelphia, Here I Come! | Brian Friel | Ron Daley | |||
| 1978–79 (Season 4) | One Act Festival Opened Jan 5th, 1979. Cost: $10 for Festival Pass; $3 per show. | ||||
| Overruled! | George Bernard Shaw | Gene Santarelli | Villager Downtown Theatre Award for a commitment to the presentation of a program of short plays | ||
| The Love of Don Perimplin and Belisa in the Garden | Federico García Lorca | Mary Ryder | |||
| Only 10 Minutes to Buffalo | Gunter Grass | Alison Mackenzie | |||
| Guernica | Fernando Arrabal | Mitchell Engelmeyer | |||
| Action | Sam Shepard | Chris Silva | |||
| Deathwatch | Jean Genet | Denise Merat | |||
| If You Had Three Husbands | Gertrude Stein, adapted by Randy Knolle | Randy Knolle | |||
| The Twelve-Pound Look | J. M. Barrie | Alison Mackenzie | |||
| Richard III | William Shakespeare | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Miss Jairus | Michel DeGhelderode | Carol Corwen | |||
| Dandy Dick | Arthur Wing Pinero | Gene Santarelli | |||
| Inadmissible Evidence | John Osborne | Marlene Swartz | |||
| The Knights of the Round Table | Jean Cocteau | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Amphitryon 38 | Jean Giraudoux | Jude Schanzer | |||
| The Servant | Robin Maugham | Marlene Swartz | |||
| Fallen Angels | Noël Coward | Trueman Kelley | |||
| October 12, 410 B.C. (Thesmophoriazusae) | Aristophanes | Alison Mackenzie | |||
| Requiem for a Heavyweight | Rod Serling | Richard Leighton | |||
| 1979–80 (Season 5) | The Insect Comedy | Karel &Joseph Čapek | Trueman Kelley | ||
| The Cannibals | George Tabori | Carol Corwen | |||
| The Barber of Seville | Pierre Beaumarchais | Alison Mackenzie | |||
| We Have Always Lived in the Castle | Hugh Wheeler, from the book by Shirley Jackson | Gene Santarelli | |||
| The Silver Tassie | Séan O'Casey | Carey Perloff | |||
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | Stephen Brant | |||
| The Second Man | S. N. Behrman | Jude Schanzer | |||
| Feathertop | From a short story byNathaniel Hawthorne, adapted by Truman Kelley | Trueman Kelley | |||
| The Ugly Duckling | A. A. Milne | Trueman Kelley | |||
| Brewsie and Willie | Gertrude Stein | Michael Bloom | |||
| Homefires | John Guare | Michael Bloom | |||
| Fairy Tales of New York | J. P. Donleavy | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| The Caretaker | Harold Pinter | Marlene Swartz | |||
| The Gamblers | Nikolai Gogol | Penelope Hirsch | |||
| Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats | T. S. Eliot, adapted for the stage by Jonathan Foster, music by Elyse Goodwin | Jonathan Foster | |||
| The Tricycle | Fernando Arrabal | N/A | |||
| The Party | Sławomir Mrożek | N/A | |||
| 1980–81 (Season 6) | Desire Caught by the Tail | Pablo Picasso | Jonathan Foster | ||
| The Idol Makers | Stephen Davis Parks | Marlene Swartz | "Villager Downtown Theatre Award" for Directing | ||
| The Streets of New York, also known asThe Poor of New York | Dion Boucicault | Trueman Kelley | |||
| Dark Ride | Len Jenkin | Len Jenkin | |||
| Love in the Country | Book and lyrics by Michael Alfreds, music by Anthony Bowles | Anthony Bowles | |||
| The Doctor and the Devils | Dylan Thomas | Carol Corwen | |||
| Old Times | Harold Pinter | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| 1981–82 (Season 7) | The Girl Who Ate Chicken Bones | Book by Stan Kaplan, music by David Hollister, lyrics by Stan Kaplan and David Hollister | Marlene Swartz | ||
One-Act Operas:
| Libretto by Glenn Miller, music by Royce Dembo | Scott Clugstone | Golden Fleece Ltd. | ||
| Music and libretto by Linder Chlarson | Lou Rodgers | ||||
| Lou Rodgers | Lou Rodgers | ||||
| Nathan the Wise | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Subject to Fits | Robert Montgomery, based onDostoevsky'sThe Idiot | Barry Koron | |||
| Barbarians | Barrie Keeffe | Peter Byrne | FeaturedKevin Spacey | ||
| 1982–83 (Season 8) | Fanshen | David Hare | Michael Bloom | ||
| The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great | Henry Fielding, music by Anthony Bowles | Anthony Bowles | |||
| Kid Twist | Len Jenkin | Tony Barsha | |||
| Rape Upon Rape | Henry Fielding | Anthony Bowles | |||
| 1983–84 (Season 9) | Under the Gaslight | Augustin Daly | Stephen Wyman | ||
| Mandrake | Book and lyrics by Michael Alfreds, music by Anthony Bowles | Anthony Bowles | |||
| Catchpenny Twist | Stewart Parker, music by Shaun Davey | Marlene Swartz | |||
| The Wood Painting | Ingmar Bergman | Alan Wynroth | |||
| Yes is for a Very Young Man | Gertrude Stein | Robert P. Barron | |||
| The Business of Good Government | John Arden | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Bertha, Queen of Norway | Kenneth Koch | Steven Brant | |||
| George Washington Crosses the Delaware | Kenneth Koch | Steven Brant | |||
| The Dwarfs | Harold Pinter | Jerry Engelbach | |||
| Lenz | Mike Stott, based on a fragment byGeorg Büchner | N/A | |||
| 1984–85 (Season 10) | Theater moves to Bellevue Hospital in January 1985 | ||||
| The Crimes of Vautrin | Nicholas Wright, based on the novel byHonoré de Balzac:Splendeurs et Miseresdes Courtisanes | Carol Corwen | |||
| Energumen | Mac Wellman | Rebecca Harrison | |||
| Almos' A Man | Paris Barclay, based onRichard Wright's short story,The Man Who Was Almost a Man | Tazewell Thompson | |||
| The Winter's Tale | William Shakespeare | Anthony Bowles | |||
| 1985–86 (Season 11) | Theater moves to Greenwich House, 27 Barrow Street | ||||
| The Two Orphans | Cormon and D'Ennery (Les deux orphelines), original music by Marshall Coid | Julian Webber | |||
| One Fine Day | Nicholas Wright | Tazewell Thompson | |||
| The Grub Street Opera | Henry Fielding, new music by Anthony Bowles | Anthony Bowles | |||
| 1986–87 (Season 12) | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists | Stephen Lowe | Julian Webber | ||
| Sergeant Ola and his Followers | David Lan | Tazewell Thompson | |||
| The Mock Doctor | Henry Fielding, music by Anthony Bowles | Anthony Bowles | |||
| Eurydice | Henry Fielding, music by Anthony Bowles | Anthony Bowles | |||
| 1987–88 (Season 13) | The Racket | Bartlett Cormack | Michael Bloom | ||
| The Girl of the Golden West | David Belasco | Julian Webber | |||
| A Cup of Coffee | Preston Sturges | Larry Carpenter | |||
| 1988–89 (Season 14) | The Blitzstein Project | Marc Blitzstein | Carol Corwen | ||
| The Phantom Lady | Pedro Calderón de la Barca, translated byEdwin Honig | Julian Webber | |||
| The Cezanne Syndrome | Normand Canac-Marquis, translated by Louison Denis | N/A | |||
| 1989–90 (Season 15) | Limbo Tales | Len Jenkin | Thomas Babe | ||
| American Bagpipes | Iain Heggie | Julian Webber | |||
| 1990–91 (Season 16) | Theater is established at 46 Walker Street Julian Webber is hired as Co-Artistic Director (with Marlene Swartz) | ||||
| Native Speech | Eric Overmyer | John Pynchon Holms | |||
| Yokohama Duty | Quincy Long | Julian Webber | |||
| Two Gentlemen of Verona | William Shakespeare, adapted by Mark Milbauer andDavid Becker | Mark Milbauer and David Becker | Cucaracha Theater | ||
| Hanging the President | Michele Celeste | ||||
| 1991–92 (Season 17) | 7 Blowjobs | Mac Wellman | Jim Simpson | ||
| Tone Clusters | Joyce Carol Oates | Julian Webber | |||
| 1992–93 (Season 18) | Three Americanisms | Mac Wellman | Jim Simpson | ||
| Cross Dressing in the Depression | Erin Cressida Wilson | ||||
| Mormons in Malibu | Wendy Hammond | ||||
| 1993–94 (Season 19) | David's Red-Haired Death | Sherry Kramer | |||
| Terminal Hip | Mac Wellman | ||||
| Careless Love | Len Jenkin | ||||
| Dracula | Mac Wellman | Julian Webber | featuredTim Blake Nelson | ||
| Hollywood Hustle | written and performed by Jeremiah Bosgang | Rob Greenberg | |||
| Exchange | Yuri Trifonov, translated and adapted byMichael Frayn | Peter Westerhoff | |||
| Swoop | Mac Wellman | Julian Webber | |||
| Women Behind Bars | Tom Eyen | ||||
| 1994–95 (Season 20) | The House of Yes | Wendy MacLeod | |||
| Skin | Naomi Iizuka | ||||
| Frank, Frank | |||||
| Titus Andronicus | William Shakespeare | Lester Shane | |||
| Measure for Measure | William Shakespeare | Jared Hammond | |||
| 1995–96 (Season 21) | Dark Ride (revival of 1981 production) | Len Jenkin | Julian Webber | ||
| Wally's Ghost | Ain Gordon | OBIE, Playwriting | |||
| 1997–98 (Season 23) | A Devil Inside | David Lindsay-Abaire | Julian Webber | ||
| Fnu Lnu | Mac Wellman, original music byDavid Van Tieghem | Julian Webber | |||
| How to Write While You Sleep[64] | Madeleine Olnek | Lisa Portes | |||
| 1998–99 (Season 24) | Cowboys and Indians | Richard Maxwell and Jim Strahs | Richard Maxwell | ||
| Quartet | Heiner Müller | ||||
| The Escapist | The Flying Machine | ||||
| Alice's Evidence | Ellen Beckerman | ||||
| 1999–2000 (Season 25) | R&D: Research & Development | new work development series featuringMac Wellman,Richard Maxwell, and Maria Shron | |||
| The Year of the Baby | Quincy Long, composed by Maury Loeb, based on a play by Stephen Foster | Daniel Aukin | |||
| Hypatia | Mac Wellman | Bob McGrath | |||
| 2000–01 (Season 26) | Cat's-Paw | Mac Wellman | Daniel Aukin | ||
| Caveman | Richard Maxwell | Richard Maxwell | |||
| Boxing 2000 | Richard Maxwell | ||||
| 2001–02 (Season 27) | [sic] | Melissa James Gibson | Daniel Aukin | OBIE, Playwriting OBIE, Special Citation, Direction OBIE, Special Citation, Set Design | |
| Attempts On Her Life | Martin Crimp | Steve Cosson | |||
| 2002–03 (Season 28) | Signals of Distress | created and performed by members of the Flying Machine; adapted by Joshua Carlebach from the novel byJim Crace | Joshua Carlebach | ||
| Molly's Dream | María Irene Fornés | Daniel Aukin | OBIE, Special Citation | ||
| 2003–04 (Season 29) | Suitcase, or Those That Resemble Flies from a Distance | Melissa James Gibson | Daniel Aukin | True Love Productions | |
| The Appeal | Young Jean Lee | Young Jean Lee | |||
| 2004–05 (Season 30) | Everything Will Be Different (later retitledA Brief History of Helen of Troy) | Mark Schultz | Daniel Aukin | ||
| Frankenstein | adapted by Joshua Carlebach from the novel byMary Shelley | Joshua Carlebach | |||
| 2005–06 (Season 31) | Not Clown | Carlos Treviño andSteve Moore | Carlos Treviño | ||
| Peninsula | Madelyn Kent | Madelyn Kent | |||
| 2006–07 (Season 32) | Thugs | Adam Bock | Anne Kauffman | OBIE, Playwriting OBIE, Ross Wetzsteon Award | |
| 2007–08 (Season 33) | Sarah Benson begins tenure as Artistic Director Soho Rep. begins producing under Off-Broadway Equity Contract | ||||
| Philoktetes | John Jesurun, adapted fromSophocles' original | John Jesurun | |||
| No Dice | Nature Theater of Oklahoma | OBIE, Special Citation | |||
| 2008–09 (Season 34) | Blasted | Sarah Kane | Sarah Benson | OBIE, Special Citation, Direction[14][65][66] OBIE, Special Citation, Set Design,Drama Desk nomination | |
| Sixty Miles to Silver Lake | Dan LeFranc | Anne Kauffman | New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award | ||
| Rambo Solo | conceived by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper in conversation with Zachary Oberzan | Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper | Nature Theater of Oklahoma | ||
| 2009–10 (Season 35) | Lear | Young Jean Lee, adapted fromKing Lear byWilliam Shakespeare, choreographed by Dean Moss | Young Jean Lee | ||
| The Truth: A Tragedy | written, composed, and performed byCynthia Hopkins | DJ Mendel | |||
| 2010–11 (Season 36) | Orange, Hat & Grace | Gregory Moss | Sarah Benson | ||
| Jomama Jones * Radiate | performed byDaniel Alexander Jones, music direction by Bobby Halvorson | Kym Moore | |||
| born bad | debbie tucker green | Leah C. Gardiner | OBIE, Special Citation, Playwriting OBIE, Special Citation, Directing | ||
| 2011–12 (Season 37) | Elective Affinities | David Adjmi | Sarah Benson[14][67][68] | FeaturedZoe Caldwell | Piece by Piece Productions and Rising Phoenix Repertory |
| The Ugly One | Marius von Mayenburg | Daniel Aukin | The Play Company, John Adrian Selzer | ||
| Uncle Vanya | Annie Baker, adapted fromAnton Chekhov's original | Sam Gold | John Adrian Selzer | ||
| 2012–13 (Season 38) | We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika Between the Years 1884–1915 | Jackie Sibblies Drury | Eric Ting | OBIE, Direction | John Adrian Selzer |
| Life and Times, Episodes 1–4 | conceived by Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper in conversation with Kristin Worrall | Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper | OBIE, Special Citation | Nature Theater of Oklahoma, Burgtheater in Vienna,The Public Theater, John Adrian Selzer | |
| A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney | Lucas Hnath | Sarah Benson | OBIE, Performance (Larry Pine)[14][68] | John Adrian Selzer | |
| 2013–14 (Season 39) | Marie Antionette | David Adjmi | Rebecca Taichman | John Adrian Selzer,American | |
| An Octoroon | Branden Jacobs-Jenkins; songs, score, and musical direction by César Alvarez, choreography | Sarah Benson | OBIE, Performance (Chris Myers)[69][70] OBIE, Best New American Play[68] | John Adrian Selzer | |
| 2014–15 (Season 40) | generations | debbie tucker green | Leah C. Gardiner | The Play Company, John Adrian Selzer | |
| Winners and Losers | created and performed byMarcus Youssef andJames Long | Chris Abraham | |||
| 10 out of 12 | Anne Washburn | Les Waters | John Adrian Selzer | ||
| 2015–16 (Season 41) | FUTURITY | lyrics and book by César Alvarez, music by César Alvarez with The Lisps | Sarah Benson | Lortel Award, Outstanding Musical[71][72][73] | Carole Shorenstein Hays, |
| Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. | Alice Birch | Lileana Blain-Cruz | John Adrian Selzer | ||
| 2016–17 (Season 42) | Duat | Daniel Alexander Jones, with new music by Samora Pinderhughes, Bobby Halvorson, and Jomama Jones | Will Davis | ||
| [untitled new play] | Jackie Sibblies Drury | Sarah Benson | |||
| In The Blood | Suzan-Lori Parks | Sarah Benson | [68][74] | ||
| Samara | Richard Maxwell, with original music bySteve Earle | Sarah Benson | [68] | John Adrian Selzer | |
| 2017–18 (Season 43) | Is God Is | Aleshea Harris | Taibi Magar | American Playwriting Foundation Relentless Award 2016 | |
| [studio] | Alice Birch, Narcissister,Carmelita Tropicana andBranden Jacobs-Jenkins, Kate Tarker,Becca Blackwell | ||||
| Fairview | Jackie Sibblies Drury | Sarah Benson | Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2019; Drama Desk nomination[75][76][77][78][79] | ||
| 2018–19 (Season 44) | Thunderbodies | Kate Tarker | Lileana Blain-Cruz | ||
| Passage | Christopher Chen | Saheem Ali | |||
| 2019–20 (Season 45) | for all the women who thought they were Mad | Zawe Ashton | Whitney White | ||
| 2021–22 (Season 46) | while you were partying | ||||
| Wolf Play | Hansol Jung | Dustin Wills | |||
| Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members | Mara Vélez Meléndez | David Mendizábal | |||
| 2022–23 (Season 47) | Montag | Kate Tarker, with original music by Daniel Schlossberg | Dustin Wills | ||
...Following the departures of Sarah Benson and Meropi Peponides, the two will join Cynthia Flowers as the company continues its shared leadership model.....
...Special citations: Sarah Benson (director) and Louisa Thompson (set designer), BLASTED (Soho Rep)...
... Artistic director, Soho Rep.... Theater; directing; avant-garde ... Sarah Benson grew up in a small village in England ... Like her father, Benson is a resourceful builder, and the American theatre is benefitting from her skilled craft....
... Soho Rep creative director Sarah Benson and theater supporters celebrate the newly legalized space, made possible by a revised certificate of occupancy and $300,000 in added safety measures.... Soho Rep filled its 73 seats Monday night, not for a performance but a celebration. ... Soho Rep, a cultural pillar in Tribeca for 25 years, would be dark no more...
...Sarah Benson has been the Artistic Director of Soho Rep. since 2007....received a Drama Desk nomination and an OBIE award for Sarah Kane's Blasted....
...Sarah Benson...During her time at Soho Rep, the theatre's work has been recognized with seven OBIE awards, four Drama Desk nominations and The New York Times Outstanding Playwriting Award.....
... Soho Rep, a downtown company with audacious taste in plays ... 46 Walker Street, which it had rented for 25 years. A round of lease negotiations had revealed building regulations at variance with the company's use of the space....
...After emigrating to the States, in 2002, she got her master's degree in directing from Brooklyn College's stellar theatre program...
... Benson and the theater's other directors, Cynthia Flowers and Meropi Peponides ... they offered a cohort of directors, actors, designers, and playwrights a job: a true living wage ($1,250 a week) and health insurance....
...Sarah Benson at Soho Rep, where she has directed Sarah Kane's "Blasted" ...No one was more disturbed by "Blasted" than its director, Sarah Benson, and the three cast members, yet they have found inventive ways to cope with the nightly torture sessions....
...It's been thirteen years since Sarah Kane's Blasted premiered...I sat down with Sarah Benson in September over tea in Soho ....
... Off-Broadway theatre company celebrated its annual gala, hosted by Fairview's MaYaa Boateng, at Tribeca Rooftop April 8....
... Soho Rep.'s spring gala is set to take place April 24 at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. The event will honor director Leah C. Gardiner, playwright Melissa James Gibson, and scenic designer Louisa Thomspon....
..."Fairview," which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in drama...
...Seven months after abruptly abandoning its longtime TriBeCa home, a small but prestigious Off Broadway theater said on Monday that it was moving back.... together they resolved the compliance issues ... Sarah Benson ... said she was relieved by the turnabout.
..."Blasted." Plays don't come any darker or harsher than the astounding drama ... By Sarah Kane ... directed by Sarah Benson...
... Benson's flawless production succeeds in rendering's Kane's bitter world view with stunning clarity and courage....
...David Adjmi's fast, fanged one-act Elective Affinities — a nocturne for diva, sculpture, piano and townhouse — doesn't trip itself up with nuance...
...Sarah Benson ... The dramaturgical work really lives in the design process for me....We tend to stage really, really fast. I learn by seeing scenes on their feet....
...The Octoroon ... Ms. Benson and their highly resourceful design team use pretty much every weapon in the arsenals of both theatrical demolition and good old, crowd-tickling showbiz.....
...Octoroon ....
... "Futurity," an odd and often beguiling show written by César Alvarez. ......Directed by Sarah Benson, artistic director of Soho Rep, ....
...FUTURITY, an avant garde musical ... was named Best Musical ... 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards, honoring outstanding achievement Off-Broadway....
... Joe A. Callaway Awards for direction and choreography Off-Broadway ... This year's awards (for work in the 2015-2016 season) were presented to Sarah Benson for her direction of Futurity, produced by Soho Rep and Ars Nova...
... Directed with finely measured restraint and a dangerously relaxing sense of humor by Sarah Benson....
...Jackie Sibblies Drury and director Sarah Benson show us that nothing's funnier than "family drama."...
... the director Sarah Benson, an artist best known for defiantly noncommercial work like "Blasted" and "Fairview." ... found the strangeness of the piece ... "genuinely creatively exciting." ...
...Fairview ... Written by Jackie Sibblies Drury ... Directed by Sarah Benson ... Soho Rep...
...A full list of winners can be found below, in bold and preceded by an asterisk... Outstanding Director of a Play ... Sarah Benson, Fairview ...
...OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION OF A BROADWAY OR OFF-BROADWAY PLAY ... 10 Out Of 12 ... By Anne Washburn ... Directed by Les Waters ... Soho Rep ... Sarah Benson, Artistic Director; Cynthia Flowers, Executive Director...
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