T. Adamson

T. ADAMSON is an Texas-raised writer and theater artist of Anglo/Mexican ancestry. His works have been performed in Colorado, California, Texas, Ohio, Nebraska, DC, Australia, Canada, and all over New York. Favorites include No Nothing (Great Plains Theater Commons), Usus (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks), The Straights (JACK, BAPF finalist), Endless Summer (Hunter College), Mermaiden; Or, The Monogamy (Spring Street Social Society), Gun City (Dixon Place), and House & Variations: A Naturalistic Family Drama (Dixon Place's HOT! Festival).

T. is an alumnus of Fresh Ground Pepper NYC’s Playground Playgroup, Exquisite Corpse Company's Fall Writers' Lab, and Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers' Group. Irv Zarkower Award, Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, Falco/Steinman Commission from...

T. ADAMSON is an Texas-raised writer and theater artist of Anglo/Mexican ancestry. His works have been performed in Colorado, California, Texas, Ohio, Nebraska, DC, Australia, Canada, and all over New York. Favorites include No Nothing (Great Plains Theater Commons), Usus (Clubbed Thumb Winterworks), The Straights (JACK, BAPF finalist), Endless Summer (Hunter College), Mermaiden; Or, The Monogamy (Spring Street Social Society), Gun City (Dixon Place), and House & Variations: A Naturalistic Family Drama (Dixon Place's HOT! Festival).

T. is an alumnus of Fresh Ground Pepper NYC’s Playground Playgroup, Exquisite Corpse Company's Fall Writers' Lab, and Clubbed Thumb's Early Career Writers' Group. Irv Zarkower Award, Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, Falco/Steinman Commission from Playwrights Horizons, Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from Vineyard Theatre.

An avid record collector, board-game enthusiast, etc. Now living in NYC.

MFA: Hunter College. BFA: NYU Tisch.

Scripts

The Natural Horse

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

The Kareninas, a family of ex-Soviet immigrants, struggle to keep their familial relations intact after their eldest daughter, Masha, adopts a feral horse named Goodboy and brings him to live inside their comfortable suburban home.

The Kareninas, a family of ex-Soviet immigrants, struggle to keep their familial relations intact after their eldest daughter, Masha, adopts a feral horse named Goodboy and brings him to live inside their comfortable suburban home.

The Straights

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

Two twenty-something bffs are setting sail on a drug-fueled millennial cross-country road trip when they impulsively decide to pick up a teenage hitchhiker fleeing an oppressive Christian-fundamentalist household. Together the three of them will travel through the heart of the heart-hardened country.

Two twenty-something bffs are setting sail on a drug-fueled millennial cross-country road trip when they impulsively decide to pick up a teenage hitchhiker fleeing an oppressive Christian-fundamentalist household. Together the three of them will travel through the heart of the heart-hardened country.

Endless Summer

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

A history/memory play set in the summer of 2016. Two young men find their friendship strained when one brings his younger girlfriend along to sublet the other's cramped Bushwick apartment.

A history/memory play set in the summer of 2016. Two young men find their friendship strained when one brings his younger girlfriend along to sublet the other's cramped Bushwick apartment.

Usus

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

1318, Avignon. Something's amok with our pope. Six Franciscan friars struggle to solve the problem of a Catholic Church devoted to the unjust and un-Christian accumulation of wealth.

1318, Avignon. Something's amok with our pope. Six Franciscan friars struggle to solve the problem of a Catholic Church devoted to the unjust and un-Christian accumulation of wealth.

Sister

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

You are a tour guide at the Cistern in Houston, TX. And you are taking the tour. You are meeting your half-sister for the very first time. She has come all this way to see you because your father passed away while you were visiting his home. Your father has left behind a good amount of money. Your father has left behind your half-sister. And you are going to welcome her into your family. You are going to be a...

You are a tour guide at the Cistern in Houston, TX. And you are taking the tour. You are meeting your half-sister for the very first time. She has come all this way to see you because your father passed away while you were visiting his home. Your father has left behind a good amount of money. Your father has left behind your half-sister. And you are going to welcome her into your family. You are going to be a tour guide.