British dramatists and playwright
Bathsheba Sarah Lee "Bash" Doran is a British-born playwright and TV scriptwriter living in
New York City .
Life & Education
Bathsheba Doran, nicknamed "Bash", grew up in London and her mother is the Elizabethan historian,
Susan Doran . She became interested in comedy and writing early on. Doran says she fell in love with theatre when she found
Peter Pan 's shadow in the backstage at a theatre when she was a little girl and realised that it was made of
pantyhose .
[1]
Doran studied at
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge where she received a B.A. and M.A. in English literature. She went on to study at the
University of Oxford where she also an M.A.
[2] In 2000, Doran moved to the United States on a
Fulbright Scholarship .
[3] She studied and received a
Master of Fine Arts from
Columbia University in 2003,
[4] and was selected as a playwriting fellow at
Juilliard School .
[5]
Career
Doran was a contemporary of
Robert Webb and
David Mitchell . Her first job as a professional writer was
comedy sketch writing for their
BBC2 show
Bruiser .
[6] She worked for several years in London as a comedy writer, writing for shows such as
Smack the Pony and
TV to Go .
Doran's work has been developed by the O'Neill Playwriting Center,
Lincoln Center ,
Manhattan Theatre Club and Sundance Theatre Lab, among others. She helped Lear deBessonet with her play transFigures .
[7] She has had plays commissioned by the
Atlantic Theater Company and
Playwrights Horizons .
[8]
Doran's play, Kin , described as "exquisitely wrought" by the New York Times ,
[9] premiered at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons from 25 February – 3 April 2011, under the direction of
Sam Gold .
[10]
Her play The Mystery of Love and Sex , directed by Sam Gold, opened at
Lincoln Center in New York on 2 March 2015.
[11] It was described as "perfectly wonderful" by the New York Times .
The play was subsequently produced at the
Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles
[12] and the
Signature Theater , Arlington VA,
[13] among other national and international venues.
Doran was nominated for a 2012
Writers Guild Award for her work on the HBO series
Boardwalk Empire .
[14] She also wrote episodes for season 2 of the NBC show
Smash. She was a writer and co-producer of season 2 of the Showtime show
Masters of Sex . She was co-executive producer and writer of Hulu's adaptation of
The Looming Tower .
[15]
She co-wrote the Netflix feature film
Outlaw King ,
[16] starring
Chris Pine and directed by
David Mackenzie .
She created and wrote the
Channel 4 show
Traitors (originally named Jerusalem ).
[17]
Personal life
She lives with her wife, Katie, and two children in
Brooklyn, New York .
[18]
Awards
2013 winner of first annual Berwin Lee Playwright Awards
[19]
2009 recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award
[20]
Cherry Lane Mentor Project fellow
2005–06
Susan Smith Blackburn Awards finalist
Liberace Playwriting Fellowship
[21]
Howard Stein Scholarship
Three Lecomte de Nouy playwriting awards.
[22]
Works
Feminine Wash ,
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Until Morning ,
BBC Radio 4
The Blind ,
Classic Stage Company , 2005
Peer Gynt , Riverside Theatre
Great Expectations ,
Lucille Lortel Theatre , 2006
Living Room in Africa , 2006, Edge Theater, New York
Time / Unstuck , Red Room, NY, 2006
2 Soldiers : The Red Room, NY, 2006
Nest ,
Signature Theatre , 2007
Nowhere in America , Keen Teens at The Kirk Theatre, 2008
The Parent's Evening ,
The Flea , 2010
Kin ,
Playwrights Horizons , 2011
The Mystery of Love and Sex ,
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , 2015
Television writing credits
Bibliography
The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays: Volume One . Oberon Books. 2012.
ISBN
978-1849431538 .
Kin . Dramatist's Play Service. 2012.
ISBN
978-0822225614 .
Living Room in Africa ,
Samuel French Ltd. , 2008
ISBN
978-0-573-66345-1
Nest , Samuel French, 2008
ISBN
978-0-573-66356-7
Great Expectations , Playscripts, Inc., 2006
Brown, Kent R., ed. (2005).
"Film Noir" . 35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays . Dramatic Publishing.
ISBN
978-1-58342-283-0 .
Great Expectations (A Play) . Playscripts. 2006.
ASIN
B002O9B19E .
The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005 . Back Stage Books. 2004.
ISBN
978-0823088089 .
The Mystery of Love and Sex , Samuel French Ltd., 2015
ISBN
9780573704543
The Marriage Plays
Archived 22 October 2016 at the
Wayback Machine , Oberon Books, 2016
ISBN
9781783197590
References
^ Szymkowicz, Adam (20 September 2009).
"I Interview Playwrights Part 57: Bathsheba Doran" . Adam Szymkowicz.
^
"Bathsheba Doran | Writers Theatre" . www.writerstheatre.org . Retrieved 6 March 2024 .
^ Sincere, Rick (21 March 2006).
"Signature Theatre Announces 2006–2007 Season" . Rick Sincere News and Thoughts.
^
"Bathsheba Doran" . Columbia University. Archived from
the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013 . '03 SOA
^
"Alumni News: May 2011" . Juilliard.edu . Archived from
the original on 13 June 2011. Bathsheba Doran (Playwrights '05)
^
"Bathsheba Doran" . IMDb. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
^ Soloski, Alexis (17 April 2007).
"Sick With God" . The Village Voice. Archived from
the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2010 .
^
"Staff" . Playwrights Horizons. Retrieved 21 September 2013 .
^ Isherwood, Charles (21 March 2011).
"No Connection Is Too Far, or Unlikely" . The New York Times .
^
"Kin" . Playwrights Horizons. 25 February 2011. Retrieved 21 September 2013 .
^
"Lincoln Center Theater Adds Bathsheba Doran's THE MYSTERY OF LOVE AND SEX and Nick Jones' VERITE to 2014–15 Season" .
^
"The Mystery of Love & Sex" . Center Theatre Group . Retrieved 22 October 2016 .
^
"The Mystery of Love & Sex — Signature Theatre" . Signature Theatre . Retrieved 22 October 2016 .
^
"Writers Guild Awards: 2012 Nominations" . Writers Guild of America. Archived from
the original on 25 May 2012.
^ Andreeva, Nellie (14 September 2016).
"Hulu Nears Series Order For 9/11 Drama 'The Looming Tower' From Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney & Legendary TV" . Deadline . Retrieved 22 October 2016 .
^ Evans, Greg (8 September 2017).
"First Look At Chris Pine In Netflix's 'Outlaw King' " . Deadline . Retrieved 16 July 2018 .
^ White, Peter (2 March 2018).
"Emma Appleton & Luke Treadaway To Star In Bash Doran's C4 Drama 'Jerusalem' " . Deadline . Retrieved 16 July 2018 .
^
"Bathsheba Doran gains clarity in writing 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' " . Los Angeles Times . 6 February 2016. Retrieved 6 March 2024 .
^ Purcell, Carey (26 April 2013).
"Bathsheba Doran and Lucy Kirkwood Are Winners of First Annual Berwin Lee Playwright Awards" . Playbill.com. Archived from
the original on 28 April 2013.
^
"Eight Playwrights Win Helen Merrill Award"
Archived 30 December 2010 at the
Wayback Machine . The New York Community Trust. 18 September 2009.
^ Sterling, Kristin (30 November 2011).
"Graduate Student of Theatre Arts Becomes Columbia's First Liberace Scholar" (PDF) . Columbia University Record . 27 (7): 11.
^
"Bathsheba Doran" . Dramatic Publishing. Archived from
the original on 23 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2013 .
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