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Eboni Booth is a writer and actor from New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Critics Circle Award) and Paris (Atlantic Theater). For television, she has written for Hulu's We Were the Lucky Ones and HBO Max's Julia. As an actor, she has appeared in productions at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Manhattan Theater Club, Ars Nova, WP Theater, Page 73, Soho Rep., Clubbed Thumb, and more. Booth is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and the recipient of a Dramatists Guild Horton Foote Award, a Steinberg Playwright Award, a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, and a John Gassner Award. She is a graduate of Juilliard's playwriting program and the University of Vermont.
'Eboni Booth's portrait of one man's loneliness and the danger of coping mechanisms will restore your faith in theater's elemental storytelling powers' * Observer, New York * '[The] most moving new play I've seen this year. Booth joins Samuel D. Hunter as a playwright who has carved out a space onstage for forgotten people in forgotten places, voices that have a lot to say if we would only listen' * TheaterMania * 'New York City's best new play… [A] buffed-to-gleaming jewel, following the life of a handsome, charming man named Kenneth, who—capsized early in life by a horrifically traumatic event—struggles, mulls, deflects, and cheerfully and not-so-cheerfully interrogates how to progress with his life in the suburb of Cranberry, New York' * Daily Beast * '[A] tender, delicately detailed portrait… Booth again probes the half-dread of working-class Black characters in a one-freeway-exit corner of the Northeast' * New York Times * 'A quiet gem that you're likely to find yourself thinking about long after it's concluded, Primary Trust proves a deeply humanistic portrait of the sort of existential abyss into which we're all capable of falling' * New York Stage Review *
