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Ron Hirsen has worked professionally in Chicago as both director and actor, appearing in productions at Wisdom Bridge, Court Theatre, and Northlight Theatre. His early plays had readings at Wisdom Bridge and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. ELEGY had readings at the Jewish Repertory Theatre in New York before receiving its premiere production at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia in 2002. THE FRUGAL REPAST was developed at the National Playwrights Conference at The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Connecticut, in 2004 and the same year was recommended by The O'Neill for the Bug 'N Bub Playwriting Award at Primary Stages in New York. It was chosen as a finalist. Another reading of the play was featured in the New Stages Series at the Goodman Theatre in 2005, and THE FRUGAL REPAST received its premiere production at the Abingdon Theatre in New York in 2007. The play has been published by Samuel French. As part of its annual O'Neill celebration, The O'Neill presented a reading in 2005 of Mr. Hirsen's GENE, a one-act companion piece to Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE. LAND WHERE MY FATHERS DIED had a staged reading in 2007 in the Saturday Series at Chicago Dramatists, where Mr. Hirsen is a Resident Playwright. This play received the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award for 2008 and was given a reading at the New England Theatre Conference in Providence. THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER had a reading in the Saturday Series at Chicago Dramatists in 2008, and TWELVE will be read in the series in October of 2009. His other works include THE INCURABLE INSOMNIA OF JOEY KINDERMAN, MURDER AT WIDOW BULL'S, THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, and MARATHON, a short television drama. Mr. Hirsen holds advanced degrees in theatre from the University of Iowa and the University of Illinois and has taught at various colleges and universities in Chicago and elsewhere. For ten years he served on the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee in Chicago and has sat on the Theatre Panel for Chicago's CityAts Program. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild and a former member of Actors' Equity. He is represented by Elaine Devlin Literary, New York.
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