T. Adamson

T. ADAMSON is a 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 The Annunciation (Bruntwood Prize Shortlist, upcoming Playwrights Horizons), Usus (Clubbed Thumb; Best Theater of 2024 - The New Yorker & Vulture), The Natural Horse (Alleyway Theatre; Salad Days Collective; O'Neill Finalist), No Nothing (Great Plains Theater Commons), The Straights (JACK, BAPF finalist), My Dead Father the Salesman (O'Neill Finalist), and Endless Summer (Hunter College).

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. 2025 Bruntwood...

T. ADAMSON is a 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 The Annunciation (Bruntwood Prize Shortlist, upcoming Playwrights Horizons), Usus (Clubbed Thumb; Best Theater of 2024 - The New Yorker & Vulture), The Natural Horse (Alleyway Theatre; Salad Days Collective; O'Neill Finalist), No Nothing (Great Plains Theater Commons), The Straights (JACK, BAPF finalist), My Dead Father the Salesman (O'Neill Finalist), and Endless Summer (Hunter College).

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. 2025 Bruntwood Prize Shortlist, Irv Zarkower Award, Rita and Burton Goldberg Playwriting Prize, Falco/Steinman Commission from Playwrights Horizons, Maxim Mazumdar Award, Paula Vogel Playwriting Award from Vineyard Theatre.

An avid record collector, board-game enthusiast, etc. Now living in NYC. MFA: Hunter College. He teaches at SUNY Purchase.

Scripts

Earth in Verdure

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

Two people who are other people. In rooms that are other rooms. Having sex without touching.

Two people who are other people. In rooms that are other rooms. Having sex without touching.

The Annunciation

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

Gabi returns home to care for her dying grandmother, María. As María experiences visions of angels and demons from her hospital bed, Gabi must navigate the complexity of her maternal relationships. A surreal and tender confrontation with legacy, trauma, faith, and Senator Ted Cruz.

Gabi returns home to care for her dying grandmother, María. As María experiences visions of angels and demons from her hospital bed, Gabi must navigate the complexity of her maternal relationships. A surreal and tender confrontation with legacy, trauma, faith, and Senator Ted Cruz.

Santa Elena

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

Two playwrights: one writes, one doesn't. Two Mexican Americans: one speaks Spanish, one doesn't. A ventriloquist, a volcano, an angel, an emperor, a convert, a theme park, a train. A play about writing that writes itself.

Two playwrights: one writes, one doesn't. Two Mexican Americans: one speaks Spanish, one doesn't. A ventriloquist, a volcano, an angel, an emperor, a convert, a theme park, a train. A play about writing that writes itself.

My Dead Father the Salesman

by T. Adamson

Synopsis

On Passover Night, during the long palling of the Twentieth Century, a car thief named Biff returns home to reclaim his squandered inheritance. A surreal & anachronistic road trip inhabited by phantoms, curses, and the unique eerie violence of the American Nightmare.

On Passover Night, during the long palling of the Twentieth Century, a car thief named Biff returns home to reclaim his squandered inheritance. A surreal & anachronistic road trip inhabited by phantoms, curses, and the unique eerie violence of the American Nightmare.

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.

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.