Amy Herzog

Ibsen's classic tale of one man's determination to tell the truth despite society's attempts to silence him takes on a searing contemporary resonance in Amy Herzog's tense, thrilling adaptation.When Dr. Thomas Stockmann makes the shocking discovery that the water supply feeding his town's renowned mineral baths is contaminated, he quickly sounds the alarm, assuming swift action will be taken to protect the public's health. Instead, to his dismay, the community's leaders rally to preserve the town's economic lifeblood over its people, launching a campaign to not only discredit Stockmann, but to utterly destroy his reputation. Ibsen's parable of one man's attempt to tell a truth that society does not want to hear takes on new relevance amidst our contemporary climate of political polarization, rampant disinformation, and environmental catastrophe. As she did with her highly acclaimed modernization of A Doll's House, playwright Amy Herzog delivers a crackling, streamlined An Enemy of the People for our time.

Ibsen's celebrated play thrust drama firmly into the modern age when it premiered in 1879. Now, nearly 150 years later, acclaimed playwright Amy Herzog makes the story of Nora Helmer freshly relevant. Herzog's thrilling, compact, and contemporary adaptation runs a mere 110 minutes.

It's the middle of the night when 21-year-old Leo arrives on the doorstep of the West Village apartment where his feisty 91-year-old grandmother Vera lives. She's an old Communist who lives alone, he's a latter-day hippie, recently returned from a cross-country bike trip which ended traumatically. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately connect. When Leo's old girlfriend shows up and he begins to reveal the mysterious events of his journey, Leo and Vera discover the narrow line between growing up and growing old. Peopled with nuanced, beautifully-drawn characters, Amy Herzog's award-winning play has established her as a remarkable new talent. 4000 Miles had its 2011 world première at New York's Lincoln Center Theater.

"The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog's many fine plays." --Jesse Green, New York Times Armed with medicines, feeding tubes, and various medical equipment, Mary Jane is a single mother and indefatigable force when it comes to caring for her young, sick child. A moving play about the stalwart endurance of a devoted mother, Mary Jane demonstrates the prevailing strength of the human will when fueled by unconditional love.

As Mary Jane navigates both the mundane and the unfathomable realities of caring for Alex her chronically ill young son she finds herself building a community of women from many walks of life.Mary Janeis Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog's remarkably powerful and compassionate portrait of a contemporary American woman striving for grace.

Yarn and fiber enthusiasts everywhere will celebrate the latest addition to Amy Herzog’s beloved knitting series (which includes You Can Knit That, Knit to Flatter, and Knit Wear Love). This essential guide details every aspect of sweater knitting, starting with instructions for four basic sweater types: yoke, raglan, drop shoulder, and set-in sleeve. Patterns are offered in multiple sizes and yarn gauges for broad appeal. Following the basics for each of the four sweater types are a diverse range of customizing options, including how to add a hood, cowl neck, turtleneck, pockets, and zip or cardigan front, just to name a few. Amy’s clear instruction and expert tips expand the many knitting possibilities, creating the essential knitting resource for knitters everywhere.

Americans Zack and Abby are bright, young and recently married. He’s a doctor combatting infant disease. She’s an actress, who also teaches yoga. It’s just before Christmas and they’re living the expat high life in bohemian Belleville, Paris. It’s all a little too perfect. Belleville was first produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2011, and transferred to New York Theatre Workshop in 2013. The play received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in 2017, in a production directed by Michael Longhurst. Amy Herzog’s other plays include Mary Jane, Pulitzer Prize finalist 4000 Miles, After the Revolution and The Great God Pan.

In this follow-up to Knit to Flatter, author Amy Herzog is back with more real-talk for knitters. In Knit Wear Love, she guides us through picking a base pattern that works for our inherent shape, then customising it to suit our size and style—all with the skill of a top-notch teacher and designer and the honesty and humour of a BFF. Known for her uncanny ability to simplify what might initially seem complex, Herzog masterminded for Knit Wear Love an easy mix-and-match pattern system that allows us to choose among the eight key jumper forms (pullover, cardigan, vest, cowl, tunic, wrap, tank and bolero/shrug); eight fashion styles (modern, classic, romantic, sporty, bohemian, avant-garde, vintage and casual); a trove of customisation details; ten sizes; and three gauges of yarn. The result? Sweaters we can knit with confidence, wear with pride, and love for many years to come.

One of the "New York Times"'s Top Ten Plays of 2011 and 2013."A quietly devastating new play . . . both heartbreaking and hair-raising . . . one of the most suspenseful plays in years."--"The New York Times""Herzog goes to unexpectedly dark places in "Belleville," but so organically and honestly... that you are shocked by the extent of the damage." -"Time Out New York""Engrossing.... Just when you think you know where it's headed, Herzog's play takes a sharp turn. Unpredictability is one of the playwright's many, many talents." -"Entertainment Weekly""A thrilling ride." -"New York"A young American couple has abandoned a comfortable post-graduate life in the states for Belleville, a bustling, bohemian, multicultural Parisian neighborhood, and their fraught relationship begins to unravel as secrets are revealed in this nail-biting psychological thriller. Here, the Obie Award-winning Amy Herzog looks at the limits of trust, truth, deception, and dependency in a world where love and loss can be pathological and cathartic. "Belleville" received its world premiere at Yale Rep in 2011, and its New York and Chicago premieres in 2013 at New York Theatre Workshop and Steppenwolf Theatre Company, respectively.Amy Herzog's plays include "After the Revolution" (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Lilly Award); "4000 Miles" (Lincoln Center Theater, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Obie Award for the Best New American Play); "The Great God Pan" (Playwrights Horizons) and "Belleville" (Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize). She has received commissions from Yale Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Playwrights Horizons. Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and the "New York Times" Outstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and an alumna of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Play Group at Ars Nova and teh Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwright at Bryn Mawr and Yale, and received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.

Winner! 2012 New York Times Outstanding Playwright AwardFinalist! 2013 Susan Smith Blackburn PrizeNominee! 2013 Drama Desk Award Outstanding PlayYoung Americans Zack and Abby have the perfect ex-pat life in Paris: a funky bohemian apartment in up-and-coming Belleville; a stable marriage; and Zack's noble mission to fight pediatric AIDS. But when Abby finds Zack at home one afternoon when he's supposed to be at work the questions and answers that follow shake the foundation of their seemingly beautiful life.

The newest play by 'one of the brightest new talents in the theater.'"--"The New York Times""Herzog's writing is surefooted and quietly brilliant. . . . At 33, she has the grace and insights of a mature writer."--Slant Magazine"An intelligent, delicately articulate writer."--"The Village Voice"Jamie's life in Brooklyn seems just fine: a beautiful girlfriend, a burgeoning journalism career, and parents who live just far enough away. But when a possible childhood trauma comes to light, lives are thrown into a tailspin. Unsettling and deeply compassionate, "The Great God Pan" tells the intimate tale of what is lost and won when a hidden truth is suddenly revealed. Known for delicately detailed character studies that subtly balance humor and insight, the Obie Award-winning playwright of "4000 Miles" will premiere her newest drama at New York City's Playwrights Horizons in fall 2012.Amy Herzog received the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. Her plays have been produced or developed at the Yale School of Drama, Ensemble Studio Theater, Arena Stage, The Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Stage and Film, Provincetown Playhouse and ACT in San Francisco. Her critically acclaimed works include "4,000 Miles," "After the Revolution," and "Belleville."

""After the Revolution" is a smart, funny and provocative play. . . . Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favor of richly detailed people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their consciences."--"Variety""A funny, moving new play . . . "4000 Miles" is a quiet meditation on mortality. But it's hardly a downer: Ms. Herzog's altogether wonderful drama also illuminates how companionship can make life meaningful, moment by moment, in death's discomforting shadow."--"The New York Times"Known for delicately detailed character studies that subtly balance humor and insight, Amy Herzog is swiftly emerging as a striking new voice in the American theater. "After the Revolution," an astute and ironic drama about how society appropriates history for its own psychological needs, was heralded by "The New York Times" as one of the Ten Best New Plays of 2010. Herzog's other critical hit, "4000 Miles," is a quiet rumination on mortality in which twenty-one-year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty ninety-one-year-old grandmother Vera in her New York apartment.Amy Herzog received the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. Her plays have been produced or developed at the Yale School of Drama, Ensemble Studio Theater, Arena Stage, Lincoln Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Stage and Film, Provincetown Playhouse, and ACT in San Francisco. Her newest play, "Belleville," premiered at Yale Rep in fall 2011.

Genre: Drama Character: 1 male and 3 females Scenery: Interior After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty 91 year-old grandmother Vera in her West Village apartment. Over the course of a single month, these unlikely roommates infuriate, bewilder, and ultimately reach each other. 4000 Miles looks at how two outsiders find their way in today's world. "A funny, moving, altogether wonderful drama. [A] heartening reminder that a keen focus on life's small moments can pay off in a big way onstage." - The New York Times "This well-observed gem deserves to be a hit." - The New York Post "In 4000 Miles , a warm-hearted new play by Amy Herzog, both love and irritability are woven into an illumination of the healing process after the loss of a loved one. The sensitive play [is] filled with small, revelatory and often humorous moments between a grandmother and her grandson." - The Associated Press " 4000 Miles , Amy Herzog's appealing new play, unfolds with the unassuming ease of conversations overheard, among people with complicated relationships." - Bloomberg News

Musical spectacles are excessive and abstract, reconfiguring time and space and creating intense bodily responses. Amy Herzog's engaging work examines those instances where music and movement erupt from within more linear narrative frameworks. The representational strategies found in these films are often formulaic, repeating familiar story lines and stereotypical depictions of race, gender, and class. Yet she finds the musical moment contains a powerful disruptive potential.Dreams of Difference, Songs of the Same investigates the tension and the fusion of difference and repetition in films to ask, How does the musical moment work? Herzog looks at an eclectic mix of works, including the Soundie and Scopitone jukebox films, the musicals of French director Jacques Demy, the synchronized swimming spectacles of Esther Williams, and an apocalyptic musical by Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang. Several refrains circulate among these texts: their reliance on clichés, their rewriting of cultural narratives, and their hallucinatory treatment of memory and history.Drawing on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze, she explores all of these dissonances as productive forces, and in doing so demonstrates the transformative power of the unexpected.