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LOST BOY FOUND IN WHOLE FOODS

"Remarkably touching"
     - Anita Gates, New York Times (link)

"Stirring...a most potent play"
     - Peter Filichia, The New Jersey Star Ledger. (link)

"See. This. Play."
     - Sherri Rase, Q onStage. (link)

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(video: interview with Kim Zimmer)

 

 

 

FBI GIRL: HOW I LEARNED TO CRACK MY FATHER'S CODE

adapted from the memoir by
Maura Conlon-McIvor

"..gives voice to every smart, shy girl who saw the mystery of the world and dreamed herself into its center"
-Anna Rosenstein,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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BABY'S BLUES

"[a] fiercely emotional and darkly disquieting play"
-Alice Carter, Tribune Review

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DARK PART OF THE FOREST

  • Premiere Stages Playwriting Festival,
    winner 2006
  • Theater Conspiracy,
    finalist 2006

 

"Ryan has written no fairy tale... She can be grimmer than the Grimm Brothers but just as enigmatically entertaining"
-Peter Filichia, The Star Ledger

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THE MUSIC LESSON

 

  • American Alliance of Theater in Education's 2004 Distinguished Play Award
  • 2008 Christopher Brian Wolk Award, finalist
  • 2001 Carbonell Award, best production
  • 1999 National Playwrighting for Youth Bonderman Award

 

"One of the year's most important, thought provoking and heartfelt new plays... Tammy Ryan's impressive drama... sears as well as soothes the soul" -Jack Zink, Sun-Sentinel, South Florida
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A CONFLUENCE OF DREAMING

May 28-June 12, 2010,
Pittsburgh Playhouse (link)

  • Finalist, Julie Harris Playwriting Award, 2008

"Tammy Ryan's vision of family, sexuality and love... haunts you like a dream that feels too familiar... her characters are disquieting because they are all sadly true, we recognize them, because we recognize ourselves."
- Amy Glazer, Associate Director,
The Magic Theater, San Francisco

"A masterclass in turning existential despair into comedy."
Chris Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-gazette.

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IN THE SHAPE OF A WOMAN

Examines the true story of Joan of Arc as told by the people who witnessed her life.

 

"resounds with [the] voice of a defiant St. Joan" - Anna Rosenstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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THE BOUNDARY

 

  • 2001, Mid-west Playwrighting Festival winner

"a Scud-missle version of Death of a Salesman"
- Ted Hoover, Pittsburgh City Paper
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PIG

29th Street REP production,
selected to be video taped for
Theater on Film and Tape Archives at
Lincoln Center for the 1996-97 Season in NYC
 

"The sins of a father are on display and wreaking havoc... in Tammy Ryan's taut drama PIG... the stage is set for an emotional explosion"
- Lawrence Van Gelder, The New York Times
 
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