←Recommendations of Death of a Driver

Will Snider has crafted an intriguing and complex two-person-play about a place and a set of issues that we know little about in America. Florida Rep's PlayLab audiences loved getting a front seat to this fascinating and tragic story. Will's characters are relatable and their story is so gripping.

An incredibly captivating political piece that really makes you think as you watch the pursuit of money and power divide and destroy. Captivating and well done!

We are pleased to support this play! It was a Finalist for the 2019 New Works Festival at Kitchen Dog Theater in Dallas, Texas.

Death of a Driver is truly mesmerizing. The people who inhabit its pages seem so real that it’s as if the reader can smell the dirt on their shoes, can taste the beer they’re drinking. It touches on so many subjects, and addresses so many issues, and yet, at its heart this play is about relationships, friendship, and people. It’s beautifully moving, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it for several hours after I finished reading it.

This is a play that makes you debate your own opinions, your own political stances, and your own sense of right and wrong. The two characters are so smart, charismatic, and passionate, it's difficult to know on whose side you fall at any given time. A brilliantly crafted, muscular script with exciting production possibilities.

Will Snider has such a wonderful voice--it keeps you engaged throughout because it *seems* breezy and simple, but oh, is it deceptively so! Snider packs a lot into seemingly simple conversation, hits all the right nuance, and doesn't waste an exchange. DEATH OF A DRIVER will stay with you, as a good play should.

I really love it when the beginning of a play gives us a visceral symbol (dead goat) of what's to come. And yet, I really enjoyed the ride of the relationship between Sarah & Kennedy---all the twists and turns covered the ending that we know will happen from the title. This play asks many things, including can 'white career women and black men truly be friends when the power imbalance is so unequal?' The politics of American money in African countries is really clear b/c he has me invested in these two warm, seemingly friendly characters.

I saw a reading of this play at the Unicorn in Kansas City, Missouri and I found it both heartbreaking and hilarious.

Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theater in residence at Kean University, is pleased to recognize "Death of a Driver," by Will Snider, as a semifinalist in the 2017 Premiere Stages Play Festival. "Death of a Driver" rose through a competitive selection process conducted by Premiere staff and an outside panel of theater professionals over the course of five months to be one of 18 semifinalists out of roughly 400 submissions to the Festival. The panel was particularly impressed by the play's sharp, crackling dialogue and its complex examination of Western social intervention in Kenya. Our congratulations and thanks to Will.