T. Adamson

T. Adamson

T. ADAMSON is an Texas-raised writer and theater artist of Anglo/Mexican ancestry. His works have been performed in Colorado, California, Texas, Ohio, Nebraska, DC, Australia, Canada, and all over New York. Favorites include No Nothing (Great Plains Theater Commons), Usus (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks), The Straights (JACK, BAPF finalist), Endless Summer (Hunter College), Mermaiden; Or, The Monogamy (Spring Street...
T. ADAMSON is an Texas-raised writer and theater artist of Anglo/Mexican ancestry. His works have been performed in Colorado, California, Texas, Ohio, Nebraska, DC, Australia, Canada, and all over New York. Favorites include No Nothing (Great Plains Theater Commons), Usus (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks), The Straights (JACK, BAPF finalist), Endless Summer (Hunter College), Mermaiden; Or, The Monogamy (Spring Street Social Society), Gun City (Dixon Place), and House & Variations: A Naturalistic Family Drama (Dixon Place's HOT! Festival).
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T. is an alumnus of Fresh Ground Pepper NYC’s Playground Playgroup, Exquisite Corpse Company's Fall Writers' Lab, and Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers' Group. Irv Zarkower Award, Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, Falco/Steinman Commission from Playwrights Horizons, Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from Vineyard Theatre.

An avid record collector, board-game enthusiast, etc. Now living in NYC.

MFA: Hunter College. BFA: NYU Tisch.

Plays

  • The Natural Horse by T. Adamson
    Recommendations: 6
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 5 more
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    Keyword: puppetry, immigrant life + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, farce, satire
    Keyword: puppetry, immigrant life, Russian folklore, family comedy
    The Kareninas, a family of ex-Soviet immigrants, struggle to keep their familial relations intact after their eldest daughter, Masha, adopts a feral horse named Goodboy and brings him to live inside their comfortable suburban home.
  • The Straights by T. Adamson
    Recommendations: 3
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 7 more
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    Keyword: road trip, best friends + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, drama, experimental, fable/folktale, parody/spoof, political, satire
    Keyword: road trip, best friends, girlfriends, epic, odyssey, queer, Drugs, christianity
    Two twenty-something bffs are setting sail on a drug-fueled millennial cross-country road trip when they impulsively decide to pick up a teenage hitchhiker fleeing an oppressive Christian-fundamentalist household. Together the three of them will travel through the heart of the heart-hardened country.
  • Endless Summer by T. Adamson
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: New York, friendship + 7 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, period, political, satire
    Keyword: New York, friendship, coming of age, Politics, Latinx, breakup, Depression, millennials, Anti-Trump
    A history/memory play set in the summer of 2016. Two young men find their friendship strained when one brings his younger girlfriend along to sublet the other's cramped Bushwick apartment.
  • Usus by T. Adamson
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 8 more
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    Keyword: Catholic, religion + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, faith-based, farce, parody/spoof, period, political, satire, tragedy
    Keyword: Catholic, religion, socialism, class and economic inequality, anachronistic, catholic and queer, monks, st. francis, Clubbed Thumb, diverse cast
    1318, Avignon. Something's amok with our pope. Six Franciscan friars struggle to solve the problem of a Catholic Church devoted to the unjust and un-Christian accumulation of wealth.
  • Sister by T. Adamson
    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: Sisters, memory + 3 more
    Genre: dark comedy, experimental, fable/folktale, political
    Keyword: Sisters, memory, estrangement, Texas, family
    You are a tour guide at the Cistern in Houston, TX. And you are taking the tour. You are meeting your half-sister for the very first time. She has come all this way to see you because your father passed away while you were visiting his home. Your father has left behind a good amount of money. Your father has left behind your half-sister. And you are going to welcome her into your family. You are going to be a tour guide.