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BACK Lee Blessing Show(s) (listed chronologically, most recent first) Position(s) Role(s) Theater Name Award Nominations Award(s) Won A Body of Water Playwright 59E59 Theater A Going to St. Ives Playwright 59E59 Theater A 2005 Lucille Lortel Award Nomination, Outstanding Play Thief River Playwright Peter Norton Space Cobb Playwright Lucille Lortel Theatre Down the Road Playwright Linda Gross Theater Patient A Playwright Signature Theatre Two Rooms Playwright Signature Theatre Lake Street Extension Playwright Signature Theatre Fortinbras Playwright Signature Theatre Eleemosynary Playwright Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II Playwright Biography     Broadway, London’s West End and Moscow: A Walk in the Woods (Tony, Pulitzer and Olivier nominations, American Theater Critics Association Award). Off-Broadway: Going to St. Ives (Lucille Lortel Award nomination, best play), Thief River (Drama Desk nomination, best play), Cobb (Drama Desk Award, best ensemble), Chesapeake (Outer Critics Award for sound, nomination for best solo performance), Down The Road, Eleemosynary (produced by Manhattan Theatre Club). In the Signature Theatre’s 1992-93 Season: Fortinbras, Lake Street Extension, Two Rooms and the world premiere of Patient A. Regional: Upcoming world-premieres: A Body of Water at the Guthrie Theater in June, 2005 and The Scottish Play at La Jolla Playhouse in September, 2005. Past world and regional premieres: Actors Theatre of Louisville, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theater, the Guthrie Theater, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf, Old Globe, the Contemporary American Theater Festival, Florida Stage, the Alliance Theater and A Contemporary Theater in Seattle, among many others here and abroad. Film and television: Cooperstown for TNT (Humanitas Award). Grants from the NEA as well as the Guggenheim, Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations. Blessing heads the graduate playwriting program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. If you have any additional information or corrections regarding any of the production entries please contact us at archives@lortel.org 322 Eighth Avenue, 21st Floor · New York, NY 10001 · Tel (212) 924-2817 · Fax (212) 989-0036 ©2002 Lucille Lortel Foundation. All rights reserved. Website development by Marketorial.com