Neil Wechsler won the 2008 Yale Drama Award for his play GRENADINE, which was selected by Edward Albee and published by Yale University Press. Neil’s plays include THE BROWN BULL OF CUAILNGE, YSBADDADEN, and an adaptation of Ibsen’s EMPEROR AND GALILEAN, and have been produced and taught in the United States and Canada. He was Artistic Segal Center Research Scholar in 2014, Silversides Theatre Artist at the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2016, and Artist-in-Residence for the Creative Arts Initiative at the University at Buffalo in 2016-17. He was the Executive Director of Against the Grain Theater Festival in Buffalo, an educational playwriting company, from 2014 to 2017. He directed Samuel Beckett’s WORDS AND MUSIC for A Musical Feast in Buffalo in 2015, and has worked as a dramaturg...
Neil Wechsler won the 2008 Yale Drama Award for his play GRENADINE, which was selected by Edward Albee and published by Yale University Press. Neil’s plays include THE BROWN BULL OF CUAILNGE, YSBADDADEN, and an adaptation of Ibsen’s EMPEROR AND GALILEAN, and have been produced and taught in the United States and Canada. He was Artistic Segal Center Research Scholar in 2014, Silversides Theatre Artist at the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2016, and Artist-in-Residence for the Creative Arts Initiative at the University at Buffalo in 2016-17. He was the Executive Director of Against the Grain Theater Festival in Buffalo, an educational playwriting company, from 2014 to 2017. He directed Samuel Beckett’s WORDS AND MUSIC for A Musical Feast in Buffalo in 2015, and has worked as a dramaturg on numerous plays, including Oscar Wilde’s AN IDEAL HUSBAND for the Irish Classical Theatre Company in Buffalo in 2016, and the upcoming THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME at Shea’s 710 in Buffalo. Neil wrote and directed ORPHANS OF ELSINORE, a triptych film that was the subject of a course in Digital Arts Communication at the University of Waterloo in 2019. He is currently working on an adaptation of MOBY-DICK, commissioned by Road Less Traveled Productions in Buffalo. Neil has spoken about playwriting and literature at high schools and colleges across the United States. He graduated from Yale University with distinction in Philosophy and Psychology.