Mr. Burns

Photo by Madeleine George

“As inexhaustibly original as the animated series that inspired it, the kookily brilliant “Mr. Burns” is the sort of once-in-a-blue-moon show that stays stuck in your brain long after it has chilled you to the bone.”  — The Washington Post

In the first act of Mr. Burns, set immediately after the collapse of the American civilization, survivors attempt to remember their favorite Simpsons episode.

Artists involved: Written and directed by Anne Washburn; performed by Quincy Bernstine, Gibson Frazier, Matt Maher, Jennifer Morris, Heidi Schreck and Colleen Werthmann

Lead artist: ANNE WASHBURN’s plays include Mr. Burns, The Internationalist , A Devil at Noon, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, I Have Loved Strangers, The Ladies, The Small and a transadaptation of Euripides’ Orestes. Her work has been produced by 13P, Actors Theater of Louisville, American Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, The Civilians, Dixon Place, Ensemble Studio Theater, The Folger, Just Theater, London’s Gate Theatre, NYC’s Soho Rep, DC’s Studio Theater, Two River Theater Company, NYC’s Vineyard and Woolly Mammoth. Awards include a Guggenheim, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist, residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo, and an Artslink travel grant to Hungary to work with the playwright Peter Karpati. She is an associated artist with The Civilians, New Georges, Machiqq, and an alumna of New Dramatists. She is currently commissioned by MTC, Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, and Yale Rep.

 Upcoming: Mr. Burns will have its NYC premiere in Fall 2013.