ADAM RAPP

Artist in Residence

Adam Rapp is an award-winning playwright and director. He is the author of numerous plays, which include Nocturne (American Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop), Finer Noble Gases (26th Humana Festival, Edinburgh Fringe), Stone Cold Dead Serious (A.R.T.), The Metal Children (The Vineyard), and Red Light Winter (Steppenwolf, Barrow Street Theatre), for which he won Chicago’s Jeff Award for Best New Work, an OBIE, and was named a finalist for the 2006 Pulitzer Prize. His production of Finer Noble Gases received a Fringe First Award from the 2006 Edinburgh Festival, where he was also named Best Newcomer by The List. The Sound Inside premiered at the 2018 Williamstown Theatre Festival, and then transferred to Broadway, where it enjoyed a six-month sold-out run at Studio 54. The Sound Inside was nominated for six Tony Awards, including Best Play. He most recently penned the book for the musical, The Outsiders, for which he received a Tony Award nomination. The Outsiders won Best Musical at the 2024 Tony Awards.
 

His playwriting honors include Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, The Helen Merrill Prize, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, The Benjamin H. Danks Award, the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award, and most recently, a 2021 Arts and Letters Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters.
 

Mr. Rapp has lived and worked in New York City since May of 1991. He currently splits his time between NYC and upstate New York.