The Thugs opened Off-Off-Broadway in a production by SoHo Rep in October 2006, directed by
Anne Kauffman.[4] He won a 2006-07
Obie award, Playwriting, for The Thugs.[5]
Bock is openly gay and often writes about
homosexuality. He is quoted as saying "I'm a gay playwright. I like being called a gay playwright. It's who I am. It's how I write. I have a very specific take on the world because I'm gay."[7]
Bock's play A Small Fire ran December 16, 2010 – January 23, 2011 Off-Broadway at
Playwrights Horizons, under the direction of Trip Cullman.[9]A Life premiered Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on September 30, 2016 (previews), starring
David Hyde Pierce and directed by Anne Kauffman.[10]A Life was nominated for the 2017
Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play; David Hyde Pierce as Outstanding Actor in a Play; Anne Kauffman for Outstanding Director of a Play; Laura Jellinek for Outstanding Set Design for a Play; and
Mikhail Fiksel for Outstanding Sound Design in a Play.[11]
Plays
The Shaker Chair
Five Flights (Produced in New York City, 2004)[12]
Swimming in the Shallows[13] (Produced by Second Stage Theatre Off-Broadway, 2005; produced by Whim Productions, 2019)
Three Guys and a Brenda (Produced at the Humana Festival of New American Plays, 2006)[14][15]
The Typographer's Dream - (Produced by
Clubbed Thumb in New York, 2002)
The Thugs (Produced by SoHo Rep Off-Off-Broadway, 2006; produced by
Portland Center Stage, Portland, OR, 2007)
A Roadside Garden
Medea Eats - (Produced by
Clubbed Thumb in New York, 2000)
The Receptionist - (Premiered Off-Broadway 2007; Produced by
Portland Center Stage in Portland, OR, 2010 and Cygnet Theatre Company in San Diego, CA, 2010)
The Flowers - (Premiered at About Face Theatre in Chicago, October 2009)
^Lawson Hansel, Adrien-Alice & Felise Dubiner, Julie (ed.)
Three Guys and a Brenda Humana Festival 2006: The Complete Plays, Playscripts, Inc., 2007,
ISBN0970904614, pp.13-16ff.