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Eric Sanders
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Eric is the author of the hit ‘fightsical’ Last Life at the Brick Theater and the Ohio Theatre in 2009-2010, directed by Timothy Haskell, starring martial arts legend Taimak Guarriello from the film The Last Dragon.
Full-length plays include the supernatural horror play The Wendigo at the Medicine Show Theatre, presented by Vagabond Theatre Ensemble, directed by Matthew Hancock; Ixomia at the Crown Point Festival, directed by Stephen Brackett; Oceanside Parkway at the American Place Theatre, directed by Steven Gillenwater; Faint at the NYC Fringe Festival, directed by Eric Sanders. Workshops and readings include: Heartless at IRT and at St. Peter's Church, directed by Pat Diamond; It’s a Dry Heat at Playwrights Horizons, presented by Studio 42, directed by Isaac Butler and featuring Gillian Jacobs, Isabel Keating, and Constantine Maroulis, and at the 45th Street Theatre, directed by Jeremy Dobrish and featuring Marin Ireland and Alison Pill; The Hillside, at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, directed by Daniel Kutner and featuring Christopher Denham, and at Primary Stages featuring Frank Whaley, directed by Jeremy Dobrish.
Through his production company The Thursday Problem, Eric is the creator and producer of Dread Awakening, the acclaimed and highly-influential anthology of horror plays at the 45th Street Theatre in 2006 starring Robert Funaro of The Sopranos alongside new works by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Clay McLeod Chapman, Eric Sanders, and Justin Swain; fuckplays, the sold-out series of sex-themed plays at the Galapagos Art Space and Ohio Theatre in 2007, co-produced with Working Man's Clothes; and Dewey’s Nightmare, the standing room-only, library-themed fundraiser for childhood literacy at the Gene Frankel Theatre in 2007.
On Broadway, Eric was the Associate Producer on the hit musical Xanadu, as well as the Associate to the Producer of the Tony Award-winning Glengarry Glen Ross with Alan Alda and Liev Schreiber, The Pajama Game with Harry Connick, Jr., Enchanted April, and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Eric was the Associate Producer of Kyle Jarrow and Clay McLeod Chapman's hit indie-rock musical Hostage Song at the Kraine Theater in 2008.
Productions of his short plays include, in reverse chronological order: Candle Party/Knife Party at the Wings Theatre, directed by Max Montel; Fake Empire at the Ohio Theatre, directed by Heath Cullens; Hollow Hallow at the Brick Theater, directed by Jake Witlen; The Underground Ocean, presented by Vampire Cowboys, directed by Matthew Hancock; Mangina as part of Dewey's Nightmare at the Gene Frankel Theatre, directed by Kerry Whigham; Lords of Chaos at Jimmy's No. 43, directed by Julie Rossman; Skin Maps at the Plays and Players Theatre in Philadelphia, presented by Cardboard Box Collaborative, directed by Ara Beal; Oblivia at Jimmy's No. 43, the Connelly Theatre, and the Sam French Festival, all directed by Pat Diamond; 1.1-1.7 as part of fuckplays at the Ohio Theatre and Galapagos Art Space, directed by Stephen Brackett; Sleep Mask as part of Dread Awakening at the 45th Street Theatre, directed by Amanda Charlton; The Baby Gap, presented by adobe theatre company, directed by Mike Batistick; and Clancy & Yvonna, Relapsing Briefly, Dakota, and diet at the Williamstown Theatre Festival Workshop, all directed by Eric Sanders.
Upcoming: The religious rock opera Original Innocence with musician Dave Nuss of New York’s iconic No-Neck Blues Band.