Who is Rhombus?

  • Joe Byers
    Joe Byers is the author of Uncle Dan: A Valentine, presented in New York by both the Lark and the Abingdon Theatres and in Boston by Centastage Performance Group. Centastage also produced Joe's Shakerman, winner of the Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Foundation Competition. TightAss: A Musical Bloodbath (based on Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus) was featured in the Theater Offensive's Out on the Edge Festival in Boston. Pee Shy was a finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award, and The Woman with No Nose won the Palm Springs National Short Play Fest. Joe's most recent play, Veils, was commissioned and produced by the Diverse City Theater Company in New York. Much as he loves writing plays, Joe would almost always rather be body-surfing.
  • Carl Danielson is a Cambridge playwright and a member of the Polyester McFadden internet comedy group. His election-eve comedy show will be featured at the Piano Factory Theatre November 1-3, and his first full-length production will open in February 2009. He has worked with Theatre on Fire, Theatre @ First, Centastage, Southcity Theater, Shadow Boxing, Hovey Players, Mill City Minutes, Arlington Players, and has been featured in the Boston Theater Marathon. His plays have been featured at Ratutu Collaborative and the American Globe Theatre in New York City.
  • Patrick Gabridge
    Patrick Gabridge is an award-winning writer, with numerous productions of his plays for stage and radio in venues across the country. His plays, Blinders and Reading the Mind of God, were both nominated for Best New Play by the Denver Drama Critics Circle. Pieces of Whitey, his comedy about well-meaning white people, generated intense discussion (and laughter) to sold out audiences in Boston. Patrick co-founded the Chameleon Stage theatre company in Denver, the Bare Bones Theatre Company in New York, and the Rhombus Playwrights group in Boston. From 1993 to 1999, Pat published, Market InSight... for Playwrights, a monthly newsletter for playwrights that has helped hundreds of writers market their work.
  • Kirsten Greenidge Kirsten's last play to grace the boards of Boston was THE GIBSON GIRL, produced at the BCA by CompanyOne. Recently NEA/TCG playwright-in-residence at Woolly Mammoth where she wrote THE CURIOUS WALK OF THE SALAMANDER, Kirsten Greenidge's work includes, RUST (Magic 2007), PROCLIVITIES (Guthrie BFA Project), AT SUNDAY DINNER and THE INTERPRETATION OF BEING (Point of Revue at Mixed Blood), BOSSA NOVA, ON WONDER BREAD AND ORANGE JUICE, (McCarter Shorts), 103 WITHIN THE VEIL (CompanyOne, 2005 Independent Reviewers of New England Award for Best New Play) THE GIBSON GIRL (Moxie Theatre Company 2006); HINGES KEEP A CITY: NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES (Huntington Theatre Stages Collaboration with Christine Bennett and Bennett Dance Company, composer Hugh Hinton, and visual artist Chandra Dieppa-Ortiz); SANS-CULOTTES IN THE PROMISED LAND, (Humana Festival/Actor's Theatre of Louisville 2004)); FAST AND LOOSE: AN ETHICAL COLLABORATION(Humana, also 2004); FAMILIAR (Kennedy Center's Lorraine Hansberry Award); and DEVIL MUST BE DEEP (New Georges). Kirsten has enjoyed development experiences at The Magic, P.73, Madison Rep, Hourglass, Playwright's Horizons, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Sundance/Ucross, New Dramatists, A.S.K. and The O'Neill. She is a Huntington Theatre Playwrighting Fellow and is working on commissions for Boston Theatre Works, La Jolla Theatre Company, and the Kennedy Center/White House Historical Society. Kirsten attended Wesleyan University and The Playwright's Workshop at the University of Iowa, and is a member of New Dramatists.
  • Ginger Lazarus
    Ginger Lazarus Ginger Lazarus is an award-winning playwright whose work has been frequently produced in her native Boston, as well as in New York, London, and beyond. Her play Matter Familias received an IRNE nomination for Best New Play of 2004; other honors include the 1999 John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for MOCKBA: A Play About Moscow and selection as a ten-minute play finalist in the 2002 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Shooting Sparks. Her plays have been produced locally by Boston Playwrights' Theatre, Centastage, Queer Soup, Playwrights' Platform, and the Boston Theater Marathon, and have been featured nationally in Untitled Theater's 24/7 Festival (New York), Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theater Festival, Pan Theater Ten Minute Play Festival (San Francisco), Bloody Unicorn Theater Company's Lesbian Shorts (Tucson), and the Last Frontier Theatre Conference Play Lab (Valdez, Alaska). Most recently, she made her international debut with two short plays appearing at the Warehouse Theatre and Canal Cafe Theatre in London. Ginger holds a master's degree in playwriting from Boston University and teaches at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Emerson College. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and StageSource.
  • Ken Urban
    Ken Urban's plays have been produced at The Flea, Moving Arts, Target Margin, Theatre of NOTE, Rude Guerrilla, and The Chocolate Factory, among others. His work has been developed at The Huntington, Playwrights' Horizons, Son of Semele Ensemble, Urban Stages, Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, Soho Rep and Annex Theatre. Ken is the recipient of a 2007-2009 Huntington Playwriting Fellowship, a 2008 MacDowell Residency, a 2006 Tennessee Williams Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers Conference, and he is the winner of the 2004 Moving Arts Premiere One Act Competition. His play Sense of an Ending was recently named one of six finalists for the 2008 L. Arnold Weissberger Prize (nominated by the Huntington). In 2007, he was commissioned by Target Margin to adapt Aristophanes' The Wasps. His other plays include I ♥ KANT, Nibbler, Halo, The Absence of Weather, The Private Lives of Eskimos, The Female Terrorist Project, and The Happy Sad, which was recently produced at New York's Flea Theatre for an extended two-month run. His work is published in the anthologies New York Theatre Review and Plays and Playwrights 2002. A number of his plays are available in acting editions from Original Works Publishing in Los Angeles and he is featured in numerous monologue and scene compilations. Ken is the Founding Artistic Director of The Committee, a New York-based theatre company that produces "catastrophic theatre." In addition to directing his own work, he has directed plays by Sarah Kane, Harold Pinter and Tennessee Williams. He is a graduate of Bucknell University and holds a Ph.D in English Literature from Rutgers University. He currently teaches theatre and playwriting at Harvard University and Tufts University. He is currently working on two new stage plays and a screenplay. He was also recently asked by Methuen publishers to write the introductions to Sarah Kane's Blasted and 4.48 Psychosis, both coming out in new editions in 2009.

Past members of Rhombus include: Leslie Harrell Dillen, Kathleen Rogers, and Mike Manship.