Will Eno (B. 1965) is an American playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. His plays include Tragedy: a tragedy, The Flu Season, King: a problem play, Thom Pain (based on nothing), Middletown, Oh, the Humanity and other good intentions and an adaptation of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt titled Gnit. Although his plays were originally mainly produced in Britain, Eno has been making headway in the New York City theatre landscape. Charles Isherwood, theatre critic for The New York Times, called Eno “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation”. He is a Helen Merrill Playwriting Fellow, a recipient of the coveted Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Edward F. Albee Foundation Fellow. In 2004, he was awarded the first-ever Marian Seldes/Garson Kanin Fellowship by the Theater Hall of Fame. His play, The Flu Season, recently won the Oppenheimer Award, presented by New York Newsday, for best debut production in the previous year in New York by an American playwright.
Thom Pain (based on nothing) was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. His plays have been produced by the Gate Theatre, the SOHO Theatre, and BBC Radio (London); the Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, The Satori Group (Seattle); the Flea Theatre, NY Power Company and Naked Angels (NYC); Quebracho Théâtre (Paris); Circle-X (Los Angeles); The Cutting Ball Theater[2](San Francisco) as well as Berlin, Sydney, and São Paulo.[citation needed] Middletown was recently produced by Steppenwolf Theatre Company.”
Will Eno
