CUSI CRAM (Playwright)

Cusi’s plays include: Dusty and the Big Bad World (Denver Theater Center), Lucy and the Conquest (Williamstown Theater Festival and O’Neill Playwrights Conference), All the Bad Things (LAByrinth Theater Company at the Public Theater), Fuente (Barrington Stage, and O’Neill Playwrights Conference), and The End of it All (South Coast Repertory), Landlocked (Miranda Theater). Upcoming: A Lifetime Burning, which will be part of Primary Stages 2009/2010 season. She has received commissions from The Atlantic Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, New Georges and The Echo Theater Company. Her work has also been produced and developed by: Manhattan Class Company, The New Group, New York Theatre Workshop, The Actors Theater of Louisville, The Public Theater, PS122 and the Dag Hammarskjold Theater at the United Nations. She is the recipient of the 2004 Herrick Theater Foundation New Play Prize for her play Fuente and fellowships from Juilliard and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. Her plays are published by Smith & Kraus (Women Playwrights—the Best Plays of 2000), Broadway Publishing and Playscripts. Samuel French will publish Fuente, Lucy and the Conquest and Dusty and the Big Bad World later this year.
Cusi has also received three Emmy award nominations and a Humanitas Award nomination for her writing on the animated children’s program “Arthur”.  She is a member of LAByrinth Theater Company, the MCC Playwrights Coalition, and The Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages and sits on New Georges’ Kitchen Cabinet and the board of Leah’s FEWW (Fund for Emerging Women Writers).