Will Eno (Playwright, Behold a Coach, In a Blazer, Uninsured)

In Behold the Coach, In a Blazer, Uninsured, a sports coach, in a press conference, reckons with winning, losing, and certain areas of the Universe.

The play was part of an evening of five short plays by Will Eno, entitled OH, THE HUMANITY and other exclamations, which performed off-Broadway in 2007, starring Marisa Tomei and Brian Hutchison.

The Coach, like most characters in Will’s world, speaks with heightened, poetic language that is combined with an often unintentional humor that keeps audiences absolutely riveted. Suddenly, the profound becomes hilarious. Will’s writing style often sets philosophical rumination against a mundane truth—and then both come across as equally striking.

Thom Pain (based on nothing) put Will on the map during its critically-acclaimed run in New York, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. The New York Times dubbed him “a Samuel Beckett for the Jon Stewart generation.” Recently, his play Middletown premiered in New York. The Realistic Joneses will premiere at Yale Rep in April/May and Title and Deed arrives in New York in May/June. He is certainly a playwright to watch!

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