Publisher Description

"The Great God Pan is a haunting, deeply affecting play about the interaction of identity, psychology and pathology. Ms. Herzog writes with keen sensitivity to the complex weave of feelings embedded in all human relationships, with particular attention to the way we tiptoe around areas of radioactive emotion." - New York Times
"Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like The Great God Pan. It is provocative and subtle, slowly, carefully revelatory, sweetly moving, thought-provoking, funny and insightful." - New York Observer
"An intelligent, delicately articulate writer." - Village Voice
"A moving and unsettling look at the nature of identity and the vagaries of memory. With subtlety and compassion, Herzog contemplates how well we can really know ourselves." - Backstage
Jamie's life in Brooklyn seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a burgeoning journalism career, and parents who live just far enough away. But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, lives are thrown into a tailspin. Unsettling and deeply compassionate, The Great God Pan tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is suddenly revealed.
Amy Herzog's plays include 4000 Miles (Pulitzer Prize finalist), After the Revolution and Belleville. Ms. Herzog is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Whiting Writers' Award, an Obie Award and the Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights.

Author Biography

Amy Herzog's plays include Mary Jane (Yale Repertory Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop, 2017; Best Play, New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards, 2018); The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons, 2012); Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre, 2011; Donmar Warehouse, 2017; finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); 4000 Miles (Duke on 42nd Street Theatre, 2011; Lincoln Center Theater, 2012; Pulitzer Prize finalist; Obie Award for the Best New American Play) and After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, 2010).She is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award.

Review

'The Great God Pan is a haunting, deeply affecting play about the interaction of identity, psychology and pathology. Ms. Herzog writes with keen sensitivity to the complex weave of feelings embedded in all human relationships, with particular attention to the way we tiptoe around areas of radioactive emotion.' * New York Times *
'Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like The Great God Pan. It is provocative and subtle, slowly, carefully revelatory, sweetly moving, thought-provoking, funny and insightful.' * New York Observer *

Long Description

" The Great God Pan is a haunting, deeply affecting play about the interaction of identity, psychology and pathology. Ms. Herzog writes with keen sensitivity to the complex weave of feelings embedded in all human relationships, with particular attention to the way we tiptoe around areas of radioactive emotion." - New York Times "Whatever the ideal contemporary American drama is, it has to look a lot like The Great God Pan . It is provocative and subtle, slowly, carefully revelatory, sweetly moving, thought-provoking, funny and insightful." - New York Observer "An intelligent, delicately articulate writer." - Village Voice "A moving and unsettling look at the nature of identity and the vagaries of memory. With subtlety and compassion, Herzog contemplates how well we can really know ourselves." - Backstage Jamie's life in Brooklyn seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a burgeoning journalism career, and parents who live just far enough away. But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, lives are thrown into a tailspin. Unsettling and deeply compassionate, The Great God Pan tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is suddenly revealed. Amy Herzog 's plays include 4000 Miles (Pulitzer Prize finalist), After the Revolution and Belleville . Ms. Herzog is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Whiting Writers' Award, an Obie Award and the Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights.

Review Quote

"Herzog's writing is surefooted and quietly brilliant. . . . At 33, she has the grace and insights of a mature writer."?Slant Magazine

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- World Premiere in NYC: Playwrights Horizons, Nov 23 - Dec 30, 2012 - "one of the brightest new talents in the theatre" (New York Times) - Two more books from this author to be published by TCG: o After the Revolution/4000 Miles will be published in January 2013. o Belleville will be published as part of Fall/Winter 2013-2014 season. - Other Herzog productions happening: o 4,000 Miles: - GableStage in Coral Gables, FL: Mar 16 - Apr 14, 2013 - The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis in St. Louis, MO: Jan 16 - Feb 3, 2013 - Studio Theatre in DC: Mar 20 - Apr 28, 2013 - Vermont Stage Co in Burlington, VT: Mar 13 - 31, 2013 - West Coast premiere at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco: Jan 17 - Feb 10, 2013 o Belleville: - New York Theatre Workshop in NYC: Feb 12 - Mar 31, 2013 - Steppenwolf in Chicago: June 27 - Aug 25, 2013 - Taught Playwriting at Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA in 2009-2010 - MFA: Yale School of Drama

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