Bio
A. Rey Pamatmat recently received the 2011 – 12 Playwright of New York Fellowship from The Lark Play Development Center. His play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them began a rolling world premiere at the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 2011 Humana Festival of New American Plays before productions in Coral Gables, FL (New Theater), Atlanta, GA (Actor’s Express), Minneapolis, MN (Mu Performing Arts), Sacramento, CA (B Street Theater), and Durham, NC (Manbites Dog Theater). His play Thunder Above, Deeps Below, initially produced by Second Generation, will be part of the inaugural season in the new space for San Francisco’s Bindlestiff Studio in early 2012. Samuel French will publish both plays in Spring 2012.
Rey’s play DEVIANT was produced by the Vortex Theatre Company, and his shorts have been produced by the Actors Theatre of Louisville (This is How It Ends, Ain’t Meat, and 1260 Minute Life), Vampire Cowboys (Red Rover), HERE (High/Limbo/High), and the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp (Out of Joint). His work has been featured in HX Magazine’s Top Ten Plays and nominated for two NYIT Awards including Outstanding New Script (DEVIANT). Rey’s work has been developed at the Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference, New Work Now! at The Public Theater, Victory Gardens’ Ignition Festival, Playwrights’ Horizons, The Magic Theatre’s Virgin Play Series, Ars Nova, Ma- Yi Theatre Company, Rattlestick, E.S.T., The Lark, New Dramatists, The American Theater Company, the National New Play Network Showcase at The Curious Theatre, and the National Asian American Theater Conference at The Guthrie, and he has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theater, the Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the E.S.T./Sloan Science and Technology Project, Mabou Mines, 2g, Vampire Cowboys, and Perry-Mansfield.
Rey is a member of the Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab, and is a past recipient of the Princess Grace Award for Playwriting, a NYFA Playwriting Fellowship, and a Truman Capote Literary Fellowship. Other plays include: Beautiful Day, New, Picture 24, Pure, and The Shotgun Message. B.F.A.: NYU, Drama. M.F.A.: Yale School of Drama, Playwriting.
