Maria Bell
      Jenny Bicks
      Pat Carroll
      Patrick Duffy
      Charles S. Dutton
      David Guc
      Zeljko Ivanek
      Joe Mantello

About the Authors

ADAM BOCK

ADAM BOCK has two premieres coming up this season: WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, a musical with Todd Almond, at Yale Rep; and A SMALL FIRE at Playwrights Horizons in NYC. His other plays include THE RECEPTIONIST (MTC, Trinity Rep, Studio Theater, Outer Critics nom.) THE DRUNKEN CITY (Playwrights Horizons, Outer Critics nom) THE THUGS (Soho Rep, OBIE Award) SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS (Second Stage, Shotgun Players, 3 BATCC Awards, Clauder Award), FIVE FLIGHTS (Encore Theater, Rattlestick, Glickman Award), THE TYPOGRAPHER’S DREAM (Encore Theater), THURSDAY (Encore Theater, Echo Theater), THE SHAKER CHAIR (Shotgun Players and Encore Theater, Humana Festival), and THREE GUYS AND A BRENDA (Heideman Award). His plays have been commissioned, developed and produced in NYC by Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, SoHo Rep, Primary Stages, The Vineyard, Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, and regionally at the O'Neill, the Humana Festival, Yale Rep, and in San Francisco, Berkeley, LA, Seattle, Salt Lake, Montreal, Toronto, London, and Edinburgh, among others. He is the resident playwright at Encore Theater, a Shotgun Players artistic associate, and a New Dramatist member playwright.

Each month, the ECHO presents a public reading of a new work. Readings are open to the public and admission is FREE!!

Past plays read in the Echo's Public Reading Series:

David Lindsay-Abaire's A Devil Inside

David Linday-Abaire's Fuddy Meers

David Lindsay-Abaire's Dotting and Dashing

Todd Alcott's The User's Waltz

Tanya Barfields's Pecan Tan

P.J. Barry's And Fat Freddy's Blues

Mike Batistick's Port Authority Throwdown

Mike Batistick's Chicken

Neena Beber's Tommorowland

Neena Beber's Hard Feelings

Chad Beguelin's Harbor

Matthew Benjamin & Logan Brown's Wirehead

Adam Bock's Thursday
Adam Bock's The Receptionist

Carlyle Brown's The Pool Room

Rick Cleveland's Home Grown

Rick Cleveland's Danny Bouncing

Kevin Crowley's Disgruntled Employees

Cusi Cram's Landlocked

Gordon Dahlquist's The Secret Machine

Bryan Davidson's War Music

Brian Delaney's The Onion Game

Joe DiPietro's Over the River and Through the Woods

Padraic Duffy's Copy

Padraic Duffy's Past Time

Fielding Edlow's Admissions

Julia Edwards' Family Planning

Napoleon Ellsworth's Farewell Undertaker

Napoleon Ellsworth's Hunting for Game

Napoleon Ellsworth's Wicked Messenger

Herman Daniel Farrell III's Bedfellows

Amy Freed's The Psychic Life of Savages

Karl Gajdusek's Spin

Jessica Goldberg's Good Thing

Jessica Goldberg's Get What You Need

Jessica Goldberg's Body Politic

Jennifer Haley's Froggy

Steven Haworth's Fernando

Michael Hollinger's Incorruptible

Keith Huff's Harry's Way

Elroyce D. Jones' A Thimble of Smoke

Susan Johnston's The Bourgeois Willie B.

Bill Leavengood's 17 Black

Adam LeFevre's Ethoipian Tooth

Rick Lieberman's Left on Flatbush

Quincy Long's Year of the Baby

Quincy Long's Aux Cops

Heather McCutchen's Alabama Rain

Wendy MacLeod's House of Yes

Melanie Marnich's Cradle of Man

Teri Minksy's Amazing Frogs & Toads

Wesley Moore's A Reckoning

Kira Obolensky's The Adventures of Herculina

Kira Obolensky's Lobster Alice

Riel Paley's Antiman

Laura Quinn's The White Album

Adam Rapp's Finer Noble Gases

Adam Rapp's Nocturne

Kate Robin's Anon

Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play

Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play

Leah Ryan's Short Order

Leah Ryan's Bleach

Bernardo Solano's Wild Life

Bernardo Solano's Dominion

Richard Strand's Median Strip

Lucy Thurber's Where We're Born

Erin Cressida Wilson's Hurricane

Paul Zimmerman's Pigs and Bugs