Herman Daniel Farrell III

Herman Daniel Farrell III

Herman Daniel Farrell III was co-writer of the award winning (Peabody, AFI, NAACP Image Awards) and critically acclaimed HBO Film Boycott about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 (starring Jeffrey Wright and Terrence Howard). Farrell was nominated for a Humanitas Prize.

Play productions: civilian, 2011 New York International Fringe Festival; Rome, 2004...
Herman Daniel Farrell III was co-writer of the award winning (Peabody, AFI, NAACP Image Awards) and critically acclaimed HBO Film Boycott about Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955 (starring Jeffrey Wright and Terrence Howard). Farrell was nominated for a Humanitas Prize.

Play productions: civilian, 2011 New York International Fringe Festival; Rome, 2004 New York International Fringe Festival; Portrait of a President, 2002 New York International Fringe Festival (Excellence in Playwriting Award); Solo Goya, Lincoln Center’s Director’s Lab at HERE (NY 1998), Bedfellows, The Flea Theater (NY 1997), The Echo Theater Company (LA 1996) (Drama-Logue Award & Critic’s Choice).

His plays have been developed in workshops and readings at Manhattan Theater Club, Crossroads Theater Company, Primary Stages, The Working Theater, New Dramatists and The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center National Playwrights Conference. Farrell’s work has been recognized and honored by several national arts institutions: New Dramatists (Joe Calloway Award); NEA Grant (To Mandela at The Working Theater 1998); NEA Grant (There at Primary Stages 1996); MacDowell Colony (Fellow 1996); 1994, 1995 & 1999 National Playwrights Conference (Bedfellows, Brodkin Scholarship Award, There, 1st Eric Kocher Playwriting Award and Memorial Day).

Herman is a former member playwright of New Dramatists (1995-2002) where he served on the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors and he recently completed his 3 year term as Kentucky Regional Representative of the Dramatists Guild of America. He received his B.A., cum laude, in Drama from Vassar College in 1983, his J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1989 and his M.F.A. in Playwriting from Columbia University in 1994. A native New Yorker, Herman works at the University of Kentucky as an Associate Professor of Theatre and lives in Midway, Kentucky with his wife, Nancy Jones and 12 year old child, MJ Farrell.

Plays

  • Cousins Table by Herman Daniel Farrell III
    Cast: 
    10
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: multi-cultural, racism + 8 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    Keyword: multi-cultural, racism, angry white male, privilege, secession, black, African American, Latino, Irish American, Donald Trump
    Thanksgiving Day. A multicultural extended family (Black, White, Latino) nears the brink of self-destruction as they confront their own past, revisit the nation's legacy of oppression and deal with the rise of the angry white male embodied in the, yeah, drunken uncle who rivals Donald Trump for his racism, arrogance and bold defense of white privilege.
  • Portrait of a President by Herman Daniel Farrell III
    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, President, White House, Art and Artists, legacy, portrait
    "The title and synopsis imply that "Portrait of a President" will be some kind of assessment of the Clinton presidency: four diverse artists meet at the White House to make the official portrait of the 42nd president. The challenges are many. How does one assess a President so recently in office? How does one express on stage a president who was so overexposed in the media, both high and low? And...
    "The title and synopsis imply that "Portrait of a President" will be some kind of assessment of the Clinton presidency: four diverse artists meet at the White House to make the official portrait of the 42nd president. The challenges are many. How does one assess a President so recently in office? How does one express on stage a president who was so overexposed in the media, both high and low? And most importantly, how does one do this with theatricality and keep it meaningful for an audience in 2002 New York City? Playwright Herman Daniel Farrell III not only meets every challenge placed before him, but he also manages to go far beyond Clinton and actually say something meaningful about the world today." -- Frank Vigorito, OffOffOff.com. Portrait of a President premiered at the 2002 New York International Fringe Festival and garnered a FringeNYC Excellence in Playwriting Award. The play, directed by Nancy Jones and produced by Adam Miller, featured Arthur French, John Daggett, Leslie Lyles, Ron RIley, Alice Haining, Leslie Lyles, Anita Hollander, Angel Laketa Moore and Pun Bandhu.