Nearly everything about David Adjmis has an original ring to it, from the setting . . . to the brassy bleat of the dialogue." This volume of distinctive work includes , set in an insular Syrian Jewish community, where a teenage brides world is disrupted by her intellectual African American housekeeper; , about the collapse of two privileged couples; and , a post-9/11 monologue. other plays include , , , and . He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, among others. was selected to appear in The 2012 Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays. His as-yet-untitled memoir is forthcoming from Harper Collins. Adjimi is a member of New Dramatists, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and the Juliard School. This is his first play collection.