We are very happy to announce that Actor/Director/Writer John Clancy
has joined Central Standard Theatre as Playwright in Residence for 2025.
John's uncompromising approach to theatre has won him accolades and awards from festivals around the world. He's a playwright who challenges his audiences to think beyond the obvious and experience what more theatre can be... moving, shocking, coarse, sacred, John uses many voices to share what's inside his head.
Strap in. We're going to be pulling some Gs...
- Bob Paisley
Playwright in Residence
John Clancy, an OBIE award winning director, is the founding Artistic Director of The Present Company and The New York International Fringe Festival. His plays have won The American Shorts Contest, The San Francisco Playwrights Center Dramarama, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First and have been short-listed for the Julie Harris Playwrighting Award and the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award.
He has directed six Scotsman Fringe First winning productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and two Best of the Fringe Award winning productions at the Adelaide Fringe.
He served on the Advisory Council of The New York Theatre Experience, Inc., New York City’s preeminent resource center for downtown theater. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect and was awarded The New York Magazine Award in 1997 for “creativity, enterprise and vision”.
In 2002 he received a Glasgow Herald Angel for excellence in direction at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2007 Clancy Productions was awarded the inaugural Edinburgh International Festival Award.
He served as the Executive Director of the League of Independent Theater and Board President of the Independent Theater Fund. In 2014 he was inducted into the Indie Theater Hall of Fame and named as a Person of the Decade by indietheaternow.com. In Kansas City, he has been seen onstage at the Warwick in MET’s productions of The Iceman Cometh and Judgement at Nuremberg.
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