Eagle Theatre presents the World
Premiere of Gary from September
20 – October 13 with performanc-
es Wednesdays through Sunday.
Bruce Graham began his career
as a playwright at the Philadel-
phia Festival Theatre for New Plays
(PFT) in 1984 with Burkie. Graham
became playwright-in-residence at
PFT and later served two years as
Artistic Director. He has received
grants from the Pew Foundation,
the Rockefeller Foundation, and
was a past winner of the Princess
Grace Foundation Statuette. He
won the Rosenthal Prize for his
play Coyote On A Fence. He has
won consecutive Theatre Phila-
delphia Barrymore Awards for
Best New Play (Something Intan-
gible and Any Given Monday) and
Chicago’s Jefferson Award for
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The Outgoing Tide. He is the first
American playwright to be invited
two years in a row to the Galway
Arts Festival, which produced
two of his plays, The Outgoing
Tide and Stella and Lou.
Graham recently returned to
acting and has appeared as Ben
Hecht in The Eagle Theatre’s The-
atre Philadelphia Barrymore Rec-
ommended acclaimed production
of Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and
Magnolias, directed by Artistic Di-
rector Ted Wioncek III.
His textbook, The Collaborative
Playwright, A Practical Guide to
Getting Your Play Written (co-writ-
ten with Michele Volansky) is pub-
lished by Heinemann.
Eagle Theatre is located at 208
Vine Street in Hammonton, NJ.
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