Jeffrey Sweet has been affiliated with Victory Gardens Theater since 1979. VG Chicago or world premieres include Porch, Responsible Parties, Ties, The Value of Names, Stops Along the Way, Hard Feelings, With and Without, Flyovers, The Action Against Sol Schumann, Bluff, Stay Till Morning (a.k.a. Immoral Imperatives), Berlin ‘45 and Court-Martial at Fort Devens. These and other plays have been produced in New York, regionally and around the world. He serves on the Council of the Dramatists Guild and is on the faculty of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. His writing has won numerous honors, including the Outer Critics Circle Award, a “Best Plays” designation, the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, two American Theatre Critics Association Playwriting Prizes, the Joseph Jefferson Award, the Society of Midland Authors Award, the Writers Guild of America Award, and an Emmy nomination.
Recently, The Value of Names and Other Plays, an anthology of nine plays (eight of which were produced by Victory Gardens), has been published by Northwestern University Press and signed copies are available in the Victory Gardens book store! (Unsigned available on Amazon on your local bookstore.) Court-Martial at Fort Devens ran in the Philadelphia Fringe and will play New York in June, and The Value of Names and Bluff are scheduled for production in the next year. He was delighted to learn a musical for which he wrote the book, What about Luv?, had a successful run in Milan (and wonders if his jokes were translated well into Italian). Jeff looks forward to the premiere of Class Dismissed at Victory Gardens in March 2009. He is a member of the council of the Dramatists Guild and urges you to become his friend on Facebook at “Jeffrey Sweet – Playwright” and say hi.
Plays:
Winging It! (Musical, book, music and lyrics, based on The Birds by Aristophanes), 1970
Wicked John and the Devil (Musical, book, music and lyrics), 1975
Porch, 1977
Responsible Parties, 1980
Ties, 1981
Holding Patterns (Revue, script, music and lyrics), 1981
Stops Along the Way, 1981
Routed, 1982
The Value of Names, 1982
George’s File, 1983
What About Luv? (Musical, book, original title, Love based on Luv by Murray Schisgal), 1983
American Enterprise, 1991
With and Without, 1995
Flyovers, 1998
The Falcon’s Pitch (adapted from Henry VI by Shakespeare), 1998
Bluff, 1999
The Action Against Sol Schuman, 2001
Stay Till Morning (original title, Immoral Imperatives), 2001
I Sent a Letter to My Love (Musical, book and lyrics, based on the novel by Bernice Rubens), 1995, revised 2002
Berlin ’45, 2005
Court-Martial at Fort Devens, 2007
Sneaks, 2008
