Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and The Relentless Award, Dance Nation is an explosive and ferocious exploration of youth, ambition and self-discovery.
Clare Barron is a playwright and performer from Wenatchee, Washington. Her play Dance Nation received its world premiere at Playwrights Horizons (NYC) in May 2018. It is the recipient of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and The Relentless Award established in honor of Philip Seymour Hoffman. Other plays include: You Got Older (Page 73; Steppenwolf; RADA) which received an Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Play, and was a Susan Smith Blackburn finalist; I’ll Never Love Again (The Bushwick Starr); and Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb; Woolly Mammoth). She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Drama, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award at The Vineyard, and the Page 73 Fellowship; and is a member of New Dramatists. Clare lives in Brooklyn.
Adventurous and sparkling, Barron is a sharp, clear, virtuosic
voice
*Time Out New York*
[A] flat-out extraordinary play... nothing here is remotely
predictable... Barron channels the rollercoaster emotions of
adolescence: her girls are electric with potential, heavy with
self-doubt... I loved it
*The Times*
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