Adam Bock's plays include The Receptionist (MTC, Trinity Rep, Studio Theater, Outer Critics nom.) The Drunken City (Playwrights' Horizons, Outer Critics nom), The Thugs (Soho Rep, OBIE Award), Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage, Shotgun Players, 3 BATCC Awards, Clauder Award), Five Flights (Encore Theater, Rattlestick, Glickman Award), The Typographer's Dream (Encore Theater), The Shaker Chair, Three Guys and a Brenda (Heideman Award) and We Have Always Lived in a Castle, a musical with Todd Almond.
His plays have been commissioned, developed and produced in NYC by Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, SoHo Rep, Primary Stages, The Vineyard, Rattlestick, Clubbed Thumb, and regionally at the O'Neill, the Humana Festival, Yale Rep, and in San Francisco, Berkeley, LA, Seattle, Salt Lake, Montreal, Toronto, London, and Edinburgh, among others. He is the resident playwright at Encore Theater, a Shotgun Players artistic associate, and a New Dramatist member playwright. He is currently writing a screenplay for Scott Rudin/Miramax.