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Richard Dresser's plays are widely produced in New York, regional theater and Europe. His recently published trilogy of plays about happiness in America includes Augusta (working class), The Pursuit of Happiness (middle class) and A View of the Harbor (upper class). Other plays are Rounding Third, which appeared off-Broadway after regional productions in Chicago (Northlight Theater) and The Old Globe, and Below the Belt and Gun-Shy, both of which started in the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville before moving off-Broadway. Also, Something in the Air, The Downside, Alone at the Beach, Wonderful World and Better Days. Dresser wrote the Broadway musical Good Vibrations and the Sundance film Human Error, plus many short plays. His most recent projects include a musical, Red Sox Nation, which opens next season at A.R.T. in Boston; Club Mojito, a play for high school/college students; and a new play about the notorious gangster Whitey Bulger, which will premiere next season. Dresser is a former member of New Dramatists and twice attended the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. He also writes for film and television and is currently teaching at Rutgers University.
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