Craig Garcia

Craig Garcia

Craig Garcia’s play, “Linger” was the winner of the 2018 Premiere Stages New Play Festival and was produced at Premiere Stages at Kean University directed by John Wooten (Artistic Director at Premiere Stages). The Star Ledger called it “An exciting and challenging play.” NJ Arts Maven wrote, "Linger is one of the finest things I’ve seen in the more than two decades I’ve reviewed theater.” It won the 2018...
Craig Garcia’s play, “Linger” was the winner of the 2018 Premiere Stages New Play Festival and was produced at Premiere Stages at Kean University directed by John Wooten (Artistic Director at Premiere Stages). The Star Ledger called it “An exciting and challenging play.” NJ Arts Maven wrote, "Linger is one of the finest things I’ve seen in the more than two decades I’ve reviewed theater.” It won the 2018 Broadway World New Jersey award for Best World Premiere Play.

Playwrights Foundation selected his play “The Here and Now” as a semi-finalist in the 2023 Bay Area Playwrights Festival. His play “Good To Go” was chosen for the TRU New Voices Reading Series. It had a reading in June 2014 at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in New York directed by Tony Speciale. His short play, “After the Fact”, was selected for the 2017 New Moon Short Play Festival at Luna Stage in New Jersey. His play “Night” was selected in 2019.

Craig produced two Off-Broadway plays in New York with Tim O’Brien. “Never Swim Alone,” by Daniel MacIvor, won the 1999 NY International Fringe Festival and had an Off-Broadway run at the SoHo Playhouse in New York in 2000 and a revival run in 2006. Craig also worked with producer/performer Susan Louise O’Connor on “See Bob Run” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.

Craig helped develop “How To Act Around Cops,” working with writers Logan Brown and Matthew Benjamin. “Cops” won a Fringe First Award at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and ran at the Soho Theatre in London.
Craig worked as a screenwriter in New York for several years before becoming involved in theater. He did significant writing work on “Empire,” released by Universal Pictures and starring John Leguizamo and Peter Sarsgaard.

Craig attended the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Plays

  • The Here And Now by Craig Garcia
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama, political
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    Keyword: climate, political + 2 more
    Genre: drama, political
    Keyword: climate, political, intense, fast-paced
    In the aftermath of catastrophic hurricanes crippling New York and the violence in the chaos the storms have caused, a mandatory military evacuation order pushes millions out onto the roads. David and Miriam frantically prepare to go find their son who is missing in the confusion when a woman and her young daughter arrive desperately need their help. Trapped without power and waiting for daybreak, they begin to...
    In the aftermath of catastrophic hurricanes crippling New York and the violence in the chaos the storms have caused, a mandatory military evacuation order pushes millions out onto the roads. David and Miriam frantically prepare to go find their son who is missing in the confusion when a woman and her young daughter arrive desperately need their help. Trapped without power and waiting for daybreak, they begin to turn on one another as the reality of how a forever transformed world will upend the rest of their lives.
  • Verona, New Jersey by Craig Garcia
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, tragedy
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    Keyword: Aging couple, elder care + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, tragedy
    Keyword: Aging couple, elder care, adult child with aging parent
    The adult children of an elderly couple confront their mother about putting their ailing father in a home, and she’s not having it. It’s an intervention, a trial, with the audience in it with them. It’s a comedy, a love story, and a tragedy.
  • Linger by Craig Garcia
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: family, Cyberbullying
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: family, Cyberbullying
    Susan and James are married New Jersey professionals with a fourteen year old daughter, Summer, and a teenaged son, Mike. Their lives are upended when their son, Mike, is accused of a violent assault against a gay teenager. James knows without a doubt Mike is innocent, but Susan has doubts that sends a schism through the family and their marriage. James will do anything to protect Mike, at any cost, and takes...
    Susan and James are married New Jersey professionals with a fourteen year old daughter, Summer, and a teenaged son, Mike. Their lives are upended when their son, Mike, is accused of a violent assault against a gay teenager. James knows without a doubt Mike is innocent, but Susan has doubts that sends a schism through the family and their marriage. James will do anything to protect Mike, at any cost, and takes actions that stretch the limits of love and puts his family at risk and causes unforeseen consequences when Summer becomes the victim of online attacks.

  • Good To Go by Craig Garcia
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    7–9
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    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller + 1 more
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    Keyword: suspense, death + 2 more
    Genre: drama, mystery/thriller, tragedy
    Keyword: suspense, death, decisions, justice
    Kyle, a young Iraqi War vet, starting a life with is new wife, is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. After all he's been through in life and war, he's going to die in a hospital. Before that happens he wants to make his life has had some meaning, to have had a purpose. He realizes because he will die, he can do anything, he's free -- untouchable by the law or any moral restraints. His...
    Kyle, a young Iraqi War vet, starting a life with is new wife, is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness. After all he's been through in life and war, he's going to die in a hospital. Before that happens he wants to make his life has had some meaning, to have had a purpose. He realizes because he will die, he can do anything, he's free -- untouchable by the law or any moral restraints. His best friend's life was derailed by a crime many years earlier and Kyle believes he has found the man who did it. He has to meet and get to know him to be sure, to find out who he is, if he's going to be able to find some kind of justice. But living without restraints doesn't mean living without consequences.