Playwright
James Magruder

translations include Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love (Center Stage, Classic Stage Company); the book for its musical version, Triumph of Love (Broadway and beyond); Labiche’s Eating Crow (Dallas Main Street Theatre); Lesage’s Turcaret (D.C.’s Catalyst Theatre); Molière’s The Imaginary Invalid (Yale Repertory Theatre); Bougie Man, an adaptation of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme for South Coast Rep; The Miser for Center Stage; and Gozzi’s The Love of Three Oranges for La Jolla Playhouse. His Three French Comedies (Yale University Press) was named an “Outstanding Literary Translation” by the American Literary Translators Association. His short fiction has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, The Harrington Quarterly and Bloom. His writing has been supported by the Maryland State Arts Council, the New Harmony Project, The MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Thornton Wilder Fellow, the Ucross Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation. He teaches at the Yale School of Drama, where he received his doctorate, and at Swarthmore College. He is an Associate Artist at Baltimore’s Center Stage and a member of the Dramatists Guild.