Amy Herzog

Amy Herzog is an American playwright. Her play 4000 Miles, which ran Off-Broadway in 2011, was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Herzog's plays have been produced Off-Broadway, and have received nominations for, among others: the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Actor and Actress (After the Revolution); the Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play (The Great God Pan); and Drama Desk Award nominations for Outstanding Play and Outstanding Actress in a Play (Belleville). She was a finalist for the 2012-2013 and 2016-2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Herzog's grandfather is songwriter Arthur Herzog Jr.. She is married to stage director Sam Gold; they have two children.

Herzog received a Masters in Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. Her teachers included Richard Nelson and John Guare. Jim Nicola, producer of Belleville at the New York Theatre Workshop, said that "the distinction of Herzog’s work is her belief 'that private, individual experience is always inseparable from public, historical processes, when she explores human lives.'" Herzog teaches at Yale as a lecturer in Playwriting.

Her new play, Mary Jane, will premiere at Yale Rep, New Haven, Connecticut, from April 28 to May 20, 2017, directed by Anne Kauffman.Mary Jane was a finalist for the 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

Tim Sanford, artistic director of Playwrights Horizons noted that she is willing "to take on 'ideas and history, which not everyone believes in anymore.' He also praises the sophistication of her structures and characters. 'You can see the affinity for Richard Nelson, who was her teacher,' Sanford points out, referring to the veteran playwright and teacher at Yale School of Drama."

Richard Nelson said: “She has great, great facility for dialogue... It’s clean, it’s simple, it’s evocative, it’s witty. It’s alive and easily spoken. Very, very actable. That’s a given talent.” John Guare noted “Amy came fully formed" Guare also mentioned her “warm-hearted, cold-eyed sympathy for her characters.”

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