Bruce Norris is an actor and a playwright. His play include Clybourne Park (2009), The Infidel (2000), Purple Heart (2002), We All Went Down to Amsterdam (2003), The Pain and the Itch (2004), and The Unmentionables (2006). His work has also been seen at Lookingglass Theatre, Chicago, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Woolly Mammoth Theatre (Washington D.C.); The Royal Court Theater, The Staatstheater Mainz (Germany); and the Galway Festival (Ireland). Mr. Norris is the recipient of the 2009 Steinberg Playwright Award, the Whiting Foundation Prize for Drama, and the Kesselring Prize, Honorable Mention. As an actor, he can be seen in the upcoming film All Good Things. He currently lives in New York.

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Chaucer in Rome	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	06/07/2001	Pete
2	La Terrasse	New York City Center/ Stage II	06/08/1999	Maurice
3	Marco Polo Sings a Solo	Peter Norton Space	09/15/1998	Stony McBride
4	Plunge	Playwrights Horizons	09/28/1997	Matty Bonham
5	Sin	McGinn-Cazale Theatre	09/12/1995	Michael
6	The Arabian Nights	New York City Center/ Stage II	03/01/1994	Madman/Abu al-Hasan/Sage
7	Life During Wartime	New York City Center/ Stage II	02/19/1991	Tommy
8	What the Butler Saw	New York City Center/ Stage I	02/15/1989	Nicolas Beckett
9	The Debutante Ball	New York City Center/ Stage II	04/26/1988	Brighton Parker
10	Wenceslas Square	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Martinson Hall	03/02/1988	Dooley
11	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater	12/07/1987	Demetrius

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	Downstate	Playwrights Horizons	11/15/2022	Playwright
2	The Low Road	Joseph Papp Public Theater/ Anspacher Theater	03/07/2018	Playwright
3	A Parallelogram	Second Stage Theatre	08/02/2017	Playwright
4	The Qualms	Playwrights Horizons	06/14/2015	Playwright
5	Domesticated	Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater	11/04/2013	Playwright
6	Clybourne Park	Playwrights Horizons	02/21/2010	Playwright
7	The Pain and the Itch	Playwrights Horizons	09/21/2006	Playwright

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2023 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Downstate	Playwright
2	WON	2023 Drama Critics' Circle Award, Best Play	Downstate	Playwright
3	NOMINATED	2023 Drama League Award, Outstanding Production of a Play	Downstate	Playwright
4	WON	2023 Obie Award, Playwriting	Downstate	Playwright
5	NOMINATED	2018 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play	The Low Road	Playwright
6	NOMINATED	2014 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Domesticated	Playwright
7	NOMINATED	2014 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play	Domesticated	Playwright
8	WON	2011 Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner's Award	Clybourne Park	Playwright
9	WON	2011 Pulitzer Prize, Drama	Clybourne Park	Playwright
10	NOMINATED	2010 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Clybourne Park	Playwright
11	NOMINATED	2010 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play	Clybourne Park	Playwright
12	NOMINATED	2010 Outer Critics Circle Award, John Gassner Award	Clybourne Park	Playwright
13	WON	2007 Outer Critics Circle Award, John Gassner Award	The Pain and the Itch	Playwright