Anthony Clarvoe is an American playwright born in 1958. Education and training Princeton University, A.B. English, magna com laude, 1981 (studied with Daniel Seltzer, Michael Goldman, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Carol Rosen, Lawrence Danson) Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, apprenticeship, 1988 (studied with Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, John O'Keefe, Martin Epstein) Teaching Sarah Lawrence College, 2005. Team-taught graduate seminar in dramatic writing based on adaptation from a variety of genres. University of North Carolina/North Carolina School of the Arts, 2003. Worked in collaboration with student actors and designers and professional director in creation of new theater production based on The Ramayana, using Open Theatre-derived improvisations and exercises. The Playwrights' Center/McKnight Foundation and Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, 1990–2. Served as dramaturg one-on-one and as feedback session leader for member and student playwright projects in progress as part of national residency grant program. Mendocino Arts Center/James Irvine Foundation, Mendocino, CA, 1990. Taught series of exercise-based master classes in dramatic writing for adult writers from other media. Awards Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Adaptation for THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV at Circle X Theatre, 2007 Back Stage West Garland Award, Best Adaptation for THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV at Circle X Theatre, 2007 LA Weekly Theater Award finalist, Best Production for THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV at Circle X Theatre, 2006 San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award for CTRL+ALT+DELETE at San Jose Repertory, 2002 Elliot Norton (New England Critics') Award for Best New Play, for AMBITION FACING WEST, 1998 Joseph Jefferson Award (Chicago Critics') for Best Production, for THE LIVING at Famous Door Theatre, 1997 Denver Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Play, for THE LIVING at Denver Center Theatre Co., 1993 Drama-Logue Award, Los Angeles, CA, for LET'S PLAY TWO at South Coast Repertory, 1992 Drama-Logue Award, Los Angeles, CA, for PICK UP AX at South Coast Repertory, 1990 Will Glickman (San Francisco Critics') Award for Best New Play, for PICK UP AX Eureka Theatre Co., 1990 American Theatre Critics Award Citation, for PICK UP AX at Eureka Theatre Co., 1990 Barry and Bernice Stavis Award for Most Promising Playwright, National Theatre Council, 1990 Selected publications THE ART OF SACRIFICE. Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2005 CTRL+ALT+DELETE. Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2005 THE LIVING, excerpts, in AMERICAN THEATRE BOOK OF MONOLOGUES FOR MEN. Stephanie Coen, ed. Theatre Communications Group. 2003 AMBITION FACING WEST. Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2003 THE WILD DUCK. Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2001