Jonathan Lipsky
Professor (Acting and Playwriting)
BA, Oberlin College; MFA, University of Iowa. Jon Lipsky is a playwright whose work has appeared at the Actors Theatre of Louisville's Humana Festival of New Plays, American Repertory Theatre, La Mama ETC., Berkshire Theatre Festival, Missouri Rep, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Theater Emory, Sugan Theatre, and other regional theatres. He is a director and Artistic Associate at the Vineyard Playhouse on Martha's Vineyard, where he lives, and has been playwright-in-residence at the Merrimack Rep, TheatreWorks/Boston, and Boston's Museum of Science. His work includes: Living In Exile—a retelling of the Iliad; The Survivor: a Cambodian Odyssey; Dreaming with an AIDS Patient; Maggie's Riff; Molly Maguire; Beginner's Luck; and an interconnected series of nine short plays called Book of Revelations. In 2007, he won the Boston Critic's Eliot Norton Award for Best Direction in a small company. His award-winning collaboration with jazz musician Stan Strickland, Coming Up for Air: An Autojazzography, was presented at the Boston Center for the Arts in September and toured in 2009. As part of the School of Theatre's New Play Initiative, Jon developed a musical adaptation of Jack London's Call of the Wild, which toured with the Olney Theatre Center's National Players in 2007-2008.