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Ellen Fairey returns to Goodman Theatre, where her play Support Group for Men appeared in the 2016 New Stages Festival after originally being developed at Ojai Playwrights Conference. She is the author of Graceland, which held its New York premiere as part of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3 series and previously enjoyed an extended six-month ...
Jun 26, 2018 · In 2009, a beautiful play called “Graceland” by a then-unknown Chicago writer named Ellen Fairey, opened at the now-defunct Profiles Theatre in Chicago. At the time, Fairey was waiting tables.
Jul 8, 2019 · Ellen Fairey, in Support Group for Men (directed at CATF by Courtney Sale), offers us a view of the American male of the species as human—well-meaning, somewhat blind to reality, but with a much bigger heart and a wider variety of personas, orientations, and tastes in clothes (not to mention wigs) than you might expect.
May 18, 2010 · Grieving becomes an awkward way to bond in Ellen Fairey’s “Graceland,” an understated, affecting drama.
Jul 2, 2018 · It has something in common with Young Jean Lee’s excellent “Straight White Men,” which opens soon on Broadway, although the purview of Ellen Fairey’s play, which is directed in its premiere...
Feb 17, 2010 · “I’m a person who doesn’t like summer or sunshine,” said Ellen Fairey, playwright and self-proclaimed melancholic. Speaking with all the cautionary exuberance of Eeyore, she was discussing her...
Ellen Fairey. a native of Chicago, is making her New York debut with Graceland, her second full length play. Her first, Girl, 20, presented by Serendipity Theatre, was named one of the Top Ten Plays of 2006 by Chicago Tribune and was nominated for two LA Weekly awards.
