A. Rey Pamatmat is the 2010 Princess Grace Fellow for Playwriting. His play Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them began its rolling world premiere at the Actors Theatre of Louisville’s 2011 Humana Festival before productions at New Theater, Actors’ Express, Mu Performing Arts, and B Street.
Rey’s full-length plays have been produced by Second Generation (Thunder Above, Deeps Below) and the Vortex Theatre (DEVIANT), and his shorts have been produced by Actors Theatre (This is How it Ends, Ain’t Meat,and 1,260-Minute Life), Vampire Cowboys (Red Rover), and HERE (High/Limbo/High). His work has been developed at the O’Neill Playwrights Conference, The Public, Victory Gardens, Playwrights’ Horizons, The Magic, Ars Nova, Ma- Yi, Rattlestick, E.S.T., The Lark, New Dramatists, NNPN, and the National Asian American Theater Conference. He has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre, E.S.T./Sloan, Mabou Mines, and Vampire Cowboys. Rey is a member of the Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab, and has been a NYFA Playwriting Fellow, an artist-delegate to the first U.S. Social Forum, and a Truman Capote Literary Fellow. Other plays include: Beautiful Day, New, Picture 24, and Pure. B.F.A.: NYU, Drama. M.F.A.: Yale School of Drama, Playwriting.