ABSTRACT
This chapter features an interview with Adam Rapp, an award-winning playwright-director, novelist, and filmmaker. He is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (American Repertory Theater [A.R.T.]; New York Theatre Workshop; The Almeida, London; The Traverse, Edinburgh), Finer Noble Gases (26th Humana Festival; Rattlestick; Edinburgh Fringe), Stone Cold Dead Serious (A.R.T.; Edge Theatre, NYC), Blackbird (The Bush, London; Edge Theatre), The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois (South Coast Rep; The Atlantic), and Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf; Scott Rudin Productions at Barrow Street Theatre), a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. His most recent play, The Sound Inside, received its world premiere at the 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival, was named one of the New York Times best plays of 2018, and opened in Roundabout’s Studio 54 in October 2019. For television, he has written and produced for The L Word (Showtime), In Treatment (HBO), Flesh and Bone (Starz), and Vinyl (HBO). He most recently served as an executive producer for The Looming Tower (Hulu).
