KNUD ADAMS (director) is an Obie-winning director of artful new plays, based in New York City. He was recently Tony nominated for the acclaimed Broadway debut of Sanaz Toossi’s ENGLISH, which Variety hailed as “one of the best plays of the decade.” He is the only director to have premiered consecutive Pulitzer Prize winners: ENGLISH and Eboni Booth’s PRIMARY TRUST. Additional world premieres include: THE AVES, THE BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS, I’M REVOLTING, BODIES THEY RITUAL, THE HEADLANDS, PARIS, TIN CAST SHOES, THE WORKSHOP, ASSHOLE, and TOM & ELIZA. Knud’s productions have been celebrated on “Best of the Year” lists by The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, and The Washington Post.

Clubbed Thumb commissions, develops and produces funny, strange and provocative new plays by living American writers. Clubbed Thumb is a groundbreaker, with a precise curatorial vision and a remarkable track record for launching artists’ careers; and an incubator, nurturing plays, collaborations, and above all artists, through thoughtfully deployed resources, opportunities, mentorship and hospitality. Since its founding in 1996, Clubbed Thumb has produced over 100 new plays, and has commissioned and/or developed hundreds more.

COLD WAR CHOIR PRACTICE originally premiered as part of Clubbed Thumb’s 2025 Summerworks festival of new plays, as a co-production with Page 73. Highlights from the previous 28 festivals include the professional debuts of Will Arbery, Clare Barron, Jaclyn Backhaus, Rinne Groff and Susan Soon He Stanton; NYC premieres of Gina Gionfriddo, Jordan Harrison, Lisa D’Amour, and Sarah Ruhl; and premieres by Anne Washburn, Jenny Schwartz, Ethan Lipton, Sheila Callaghan, Tanya Saracho, Abe Koogler, Liza Birkenmeier and Mara Nelson-Greenberg. Many of these artists continue to make Clubbed Thumb an artistic home.

Clubbed Thumb has been awarded multiple Obies and other awards, including a 2019 Tony Award nomination for Heidi Schreck’s WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME – the most produced play in the ‘23/24 and ‘24/25 seasons according to American Theatre Magazine – which premiered in Summerworks. Clubbed Thumb has two published anthologies of plays: FUNNY. STRANGE, PROVOCATIVE (2007, Playscripts) and UNUSUAL STORIES, UNUSUALLY TOLD (2021, Methuen Drama / Bloomsbury).

Since its founding in 1997, Page 73 has unwaveringly focused on launching the careers of playwrights and expanding the theatrical canon. The organization produces and develops work by writers who have not yet had an Off-Broadway premiere. In addition to production, Page 73 offers writers career guidance, financial assistance, and development opportunities through programs including the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, the Writers Group, workshops, and retreats and residencies. In 2020, the organization was honored with an Obie Award “for providing extraordinary support for early career playwrights.”

Page 73 has become renowned for showcasing writers with a distinct approach to theatricality and language. The organization developed and, with Playwrights Horizons, produced the world premiere of Michael R. Jackson’s A STRANGE LOOP, which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama before transferring to Broadway in 2022, where it won the Tony Award for Best Musical. Among Page 73’s many other celebrated world and New York premieres are Zora Howard’s STEW, which was named a Finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Mia Chung’s CATCH AS CATCH CAN, Leah Nanako Winkler’s KENTUCKY, Max Posner’s JUDY, Clare Barron’s YOU GOT OLDER, George Brant’s GROUNDED, John J. Caswell, Jr.’s MAN CAVE, and Susan Soon He Stanton’s TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY. The organization also produced the New York City debuts of Samuel D. Hunter, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Heidi Schreck, and Dan LeFranc. Close to two-thirds of the over 160 playwrights supported by Page 73 have subsequently received New York or regional theater productions, and the number grows each season.