Tammy Ryan: Bio/Current Work

Hello All! I thought that it might be interesting and helpful to research the playwright and look at her other works and what she up to now. And I found that she has her own website with all of this information on it:

http://www.tammyryan.net/

From looking at this website I found that PIG was filmed for the Lincoln Center Library Archive. Did anybody go watch it while they were there? Just out of curiosity.

I also found that Ryan is now working on a commission for the International Culture Lab. In further research of the ICL, the type of plays that Ryan writes becomes clear. The ICL website best describes their mission:

“We believe that as artists representing the United States, we have a responsibility to both contextualize and promote the diversity of culture, using our art to encourage, celebrate and learn from cultural difference. To that end, ICL collaborates with artists from other countries, promoting the rich examination of the shared human condition that can occur when multiple points of view come together.”

http://www.intlculturelab.org/

(Some interesting things to investigate)

Although PIG was not written for the International Culture Lab, I think that Ryan working for them currently, reveals something about all of her plays. For us, it gives us a bigger picture to fit into. It is important to know what piece you are in.

Here is her Bio:

“Tammy Ryan's plays have been produced and developed across the country at such theaters as The Alliance Theater Company, Florida Stage, People's Light and Theater Company, Philadelphia Theater Company, Playwrights Theater of New Jersey, City Theater and elsewhere.

She has received the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Creative Achievement Award, The Heinz Endowment's Creative Heights Grant and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Sewanee Writers Conference. Her writing for young audiences has twice won the National Playwriting for Youth Bonderman Award for THE GIFT OF THE PIRATE QUEEN and THE MUSIC LESSON which also received the American Alliance of Theater in Education's Distinguished Play Award and was a finalist for the Christopher Brian Wolk Award.

Other plays include PIG (29th Street Rep), THE BOUNDARY (University of Pittsburgh Repertory Theater), DARK PART OF THE FOREST (Premiere Stages), IN THE SHAPE OF A WOMAN, BABY'S BLUES, THE GIFT OF THE PIRATE QUEEN, FBI GIRL (THE REP), and LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS which received a Seed Award from the Sprout Fund last year in support of its development at Bricolage Theater's In The Raw series. It was further developed at The New Harmony Project, The Lark Center for Play Development and the National Network of New Plays 2009 National Showcase of Plays, and is scheduled for a co-production with the Playwrights Theater of New Jersey and Premiere Stages in the fall.

Currently Ryan is working on a commission for International Culture Lab, entitled LINDSEY'S OYSTER to be produced at the Kitchen in Ithaca, NY, Irondale Ensemble in NYC and garagistanbul in Turkey in 2011.”