Grenadine, Winner of the 2008 Yale Drama Award, an international prize for emerging playwrights, selected by Edward Albee. Click on the image for more info.
Yale Drama Prize Award Ceremony for Grenadine, New York City, 2008, with Edward Albee, who said of Grenadine: “I found it highly original; the questions the play asks and the answers it proposes are provocative; the play stretched my mind."
Grenadine, University of Chicago, 2019, dir. Kendall Phillips.
Panel discussion: "Why Playwriting Matters," Yale University, 2017, with David Hare, Virginia Grise, Donald Margulies, Marsha Norman, Jeffrey Sweet. I spoke about ways reading and writing plays could improve literacy. (Photo by Michael Marsland, Yale News)
The Brown Bull of Cuailnge, The Room, Toronto, 2014, dir. Geoff Pounsett. “Intellectual and emotional power ... Wechsler's tantalizing ideas about myth and human interconnection.” JON KAPLAN, Now Toronto. (L to R, Antonio Cayonne, Dylan Roberts, Anand Rajaram, Gabriella Colavecchio. Photo by Robert Harding)
Emperor and Galilean (Adaptation), Torn Space Theater, Buffalo, NY, 2012, dir. David Oliver. “Neil Wechsler has expertly adapted the play … to retain the clear arc of Julian’s trajectory from searching youth, through imperial ruler to defeated visionary.” MARVIN CARLSON, Ibsen News and Comment. (Adriano Gatto and Barry Williams. Photo by Lukia Costello)