Steven Dietz

Steven Dietz

Steven Dietz's thirty-plus plays and adaptations have been seen at most of America’s most prominent regional theatres, as well as Off-Broadway and in over twenty countries internationally. Awards include the Steinberg New Play Award Citation (Bloomsday); the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award (Fiction, Still Life with Iris); the PEN USA West Award in Drama (Lonely Planet); and the Edgar Award...
Steven Dietz's thirty-plus plays and adaptations have been seen at most of America’s most prominent regional theatres, as well as Off-Broadway and in over twenty countries internationally. Awards include the Steinberg New Play Award Citation (Bloomsday); the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award (Fiction, Still Life with Iris); the PEN USA West Award in Drama (Lonely Planet); and the Edgar Award® for Best Mystery Play (Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure). Recent premieres include How a Boy Falls (Northlight Theatre, Chicago); Dracula: Mina’s Quest (ACT Theatre, Seattle); The Great Beyond and The Ghost of Splinter Cove (interlocking plays at Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte and Children’s Theatre of Charlotte); and This Random World (Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville). In 2019, Dietz was once again named one of the 20 most produced playwrights in America. He and his wife, playwright Allison Gregory, divide their time between Austin and Seattle.

Plays

  • On Clover Road
    At an abandoned motel on a desolate American road, a mother meets with a cult deprogrammer, believing she will be reunited with her runaway daughter. What happens instead – in this smart, harrowing, edge-of-your-seat thriller – is something that will shock her to her core. What will a mother do to get her daughter back? Whatever it takes.