Stephen Adly Guirgis

Playwright

Stephen Adly Guirgis is a member and former co-artistic director of LAByrinth Theater Company. His plays have been produced on five continents and throughout the United States. His most recent play, Between Riverside and Crazy (dir: Austin Pendleton) premiered at Atlantic Theater Company, moved to Second Stage Theatre, and garnered numerous awards including the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Other plays include: The Motherfucker with the Hat (6 Tony nominations, including Best Play, dir: Anna D Shapiro), Den of Thieves (dir: Max Daniels), Dominica The Fat Ugly Ho (dir: Adam Rapp), as well as Our Lady of 121st Street,  Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train  In Arabia, We’d All Be Kings, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Public Theater)  and The Little Flower of East Orange (Public Theater) —all five directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman and world premiered at Labyrinth Theater Company.  

In London, his plays have premiered at The Donmar Warehouse, The Almeida (dir: Rupert Goold), The Hampstead (dir: Robert Delamere), and at The Arts Theater in the West End (dir: Philip Seymour Hoffman). As an actor, he has appeared in theater, film and television, including roles in Alejandro Inarritu’s Oscar winning “Birdman, Kenneth Lonergan’s “Margaret,” Todd Solondz’s “Palindromes,” and Brett C. Leonard’s “Jailbait” opposite Michael Pitt.  He co-created and executive produced Netflix’s “The Get Down” with Baz Luhrmann. Other awards include: the Yale Wyndham-Campbell Prize, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award, PEN/Laura Pels Award, Whiting Award, TCG fellowship, Fringe First Award, NY Drama Critics Circle, L.A. Drama Critics Prize, and a Lucy Lortel Award. A former violence prevention specialist and H.I.V. educator, he lives in New York City.