1. Life

2. Awards

3. Works

4. Bibliography

5. References

6. External links

Bathsheba "Bash" Doran is a writer living in New York City.

Life

Doran, nicknamed "Bash", grew up in London and studied at Cambridge University. She was a contemporary of Robert Webb and David Mitchell and her first job as a professional writer was comedy sketch writing for their BBC2 show Bruiser.^[1] She then worked for several years as a comedy writer, writing for shows like Smack the Pony and TV to Go. In 2000, she moved to the United States on a Fulbright Scholarship.^[2] She received her Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University in 2003,^[3] and went on to become a playwriting fellow at Juilliard School.^[4]

Doran's work has been developed by the O'Neill Playwriting Center, Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club and Sundance Theatre Lab, among others. She helped Lear deBessonet with her play transFigures,^[5] and has been commissioned by the Atlantic Theater Company and Playwrights Horizons.^[6]

Doran says she fell in love with theatre when she found Peter Pan's shadow in the backstage at a theatre when she was a little girl and realised that it was made of pantyhose.^[7]

Her mother is the Elizabethan historian, Susan Doran.

Doran's play, Kin, described as "exquisitely wrought" by the New York Times,^[8] premiered at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons from 25 February – 3 April 2011, under the direction of Sam Gold.^[9]

Her play The Mystery of Love and Sex, directed by Sam Gold, opened at Lincoln Center in New York on 2 March 2015,^[10] was described as "perfectly wonderful" by the New York Times. The play was subsequently produced at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles^[11] and the Signature Theater, Arlington VA,^[12] among other national and international venues.

She was nominated for a 2012 Writers Guild Award for her work on the HBO series Boardwalk Empire.^[13] She also wrote episodes for season 2 of the NBC show Smash. She was a writer and co-producer of season 2 of the Showtime show Masters of Sex. She was co-executive producer and writer of Hulu's adaptation of The Looming Tower.^[14]

She co-wrote the Netflix feature film Outlaw King,^[15] starring Chris Pine and directed by David Mackenzie.

She created and wrote the upcoming Channel 4 show Traitors (originally named Jerusalem).^[16] She is the showrunner and executive producer of JJ Abrams's upcoming show Demimonde,^[17] having signed a two-year overall deal with HBO.

She lives with her wife and two children in New York City.

Awards

• 2013 winner of first annual Berwin Lee Playwright Awards^[18]
• 2009 recipient of the Helen Merrill Playwriting Award^[19]
• Cherry Lane Mentor Project fellow
• 2005–06 Susan Smith Blackburn Awards finalist
• Liberace Playwriting Fellowship^[20]
• Howard Stein Scholarship
• Three Lecomte de Nouy playwriting awards.^[21]

Works

• Feminine Wash, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
• Until Morning, BBC Radio 4
• The Blind, Classic Stage Company, 2005
• Peer Gynt, Riverside Theatre
• Great Expectations, Lucille Lortel Theatre, 2006
• Living Room in Africa, 2006, Edge Theater, New York
• Time / Unstuck, Red Room, NY, 2006
• 2 Soldiers: The Red Room, NY, 2006
• Nest, Signature Theatre, 2007
• Nowhere in America, Keen Teens at The Kirk Theatre, 2008
• The Parent's Evening, The Flea, 2010
• Kin, Playwrights Horizons, 2011
• The Mystery of Love and Sex, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 2015

Bibliography

• {{Cite book| url=https://www.amazon.com/Oberon-Anthology-Contemporary-American-Plays/dp/1849431531| title=The Oberon Anthology of Contemporary American Plays: Volume One | publisher=Oberon Books | year=2012 | isbn=978-1849431538 }}
• {{Cite book| url=https://www.amazon.com/Kin-Bathsheba-Doran/dp/0822225611/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405707510&sr=8-1&keywords=bathsheba+doran | title=Kin | publisher=Dramatist's Play Service | year=2012 | isbn=978-0822225614 }}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=njAMqLlWv7cC&printsec=frontcover Living Room in Africa], Samuel French Ltd., 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-573-66345-1}}
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=2ovhF-qcE_QC&printsec=frontcover Nest], Samuel French, 2008 {{ISBN|978-0-573-66356-7}}
• Great Expectations, Playscripts, Inc., 2006
• {{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=serjPTqNAgoC&pg=PA45| chapter=Film Noir| title=35 in 10: Thirty-Five Ten-Minute Plays| editor=Brown, Kent R. | publisher=Dramatic Publishing| year= 2005| isbn=978-1-58342-283-0 }}
• {{Cite book| url=https://www.amazon.com/Great-Expectations-Play-Bathsheba-Doran/dp/B002O9B19E/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1405707510&sr=8-6&keywords=bathsheba+doran | title= Great Expectations (A Play) | publisher=Playscripts | year=2006 | asin=B002O9B19E }}
• {{Cite book| url=https://www.amazon.com/Back-Stage-American-Short-Plays/dp/0823088081/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1405707738&sr=8-11&keywords=bathsheba+doran | title=The Back Stage Book of New American Short Plays 2005 | publisher=Back Stage Books | year=2004 | ISBN=978-0823088089 }}
• The Mystery of Love and Sex, Samuel French Ltd., 2015 {{ISBN|9780573704543}}
• [https://www.oberonbooks.com/the-marriage-plays.html The Marriage Plays], Oberon Books, 2016 {{ISBN|9781783197590}}

References

External links

• Bathsheba Doran at Doollee.com
• Nest review at Talkin' Broadway
• {{IMDb name|1096313}}

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