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Works by Ethan Lipton:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

THE SEAT OF OUR PANTS
WHAT YOU’VE DONE IS MORAL AND BAD FOR ME AND OUR FRIENDSHIP
WE ARE YOUR ROBOTS
THE COOPERATIVE
SCHOOL BUSINESS SCHOOL BUSINESS SCHOOL
DAN THE MAN
OVERJOYED
THE UNLIVED LIFE
INVASIVE SPECIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Synopses:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

School Business School Business School – A satiric response to GLENGARY about the privatizing of public education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dan The Man – A play with three songs about the Bernoullis, a family of 17th-century Swiss mathematicians, it\u2019s a bittersweet tale about fathers, sons, and brothers, scarcity thinking and toxic masculinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overjoyed – A comedy about a couple in their 90s who have a newborn, and the anxiety that produces in others. Really it\u2019s about the impossibility of parenting and our need to judge other parents\u2019 choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Invasive Species – A dark comedy about five 50-60 year-olds who are roommates in Coney Island 100 years from now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethan Lipton\u2019s produced plays include TUMACHO, RED-HANDED OTTER, LUTHER, GOODBYE APRIL HELLO MAY, 100 ASPECTS OF THE MOON, and MEAT. His musicals NO PLACE TO GO (Obie Award) and THE OUTER SPACE (Lortel nom.) were developed with his band, Ethan Lipton and his Orchestra, directed by Leigh Silverman, and produced by the Public in Joe\u2019s Pub, and have toured to over 30 cities in the U.S. and Europe. Plays are published by Concorde Theatricals and Yale\/Duke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ethan is the 2023 Kleban Prize winner for most promising American librettist and a 2023 Creative Capital Grantee. A Clubbed Thumb associate artist, Ethan has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alpert Prize Fellow at MacDowell, part of the Public Theater\u2019s Emerging Writers Group, as well as a Space at Ryder Farm Fellow, an Orchard Project Resident, and the Playwrights Realm\u2019s inaugural Page One Fellow. Ethan has received grants and commissions from the Public Theater, Media Arts Exploration, MTC, the Civilians, NYFA, Clubbed Thumb, Playwrights Horizons, True Love, Barrington Stage, the NY Public Library and the Onassis Foundation.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his band, Ethan has released five studio albums and played venues including SF Jazz, Lincoln Center, Celebrate Brooklyn, MASS MoCa, Pitchfork Paris, Theatre de la Ville, the Gate (London), the Pavilion (Dublin), and the Troubadour in LA. The band has been featured on NPR shows Weekend Edition, The World, and Soundcheck, as well as in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.  As a performer, Ethan has opened for indie rock band The National, originated the role of Klipspringer in ERS\u2019 production of GATZ, appeared in Sondheim\u2019s ASSASSINS at Encores!, and sung backup for Laurie Anderson. More info at www.ethanlipton.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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