Amy Herzog

Belleville Amy Herzog

One of the New York Times's Top Ten Plays of 2011 and 2013.

"A quietly devastating new play . . . both heartbreaking and hair-raising . . . one of the most suspenseful plays in years."?The New York Times

"Herzog goes to unexpectedly dark places in Belleville, but so organically and honestly... that you are shocked by the extent of the damage." -Time Out New York

"Engrossing.... Just when you think you know where it's headed, Herzog's play takes a sharp turn. Unpredictability is one of the playwright's many, many talents." -Entertainment Weekly

"A thrilling ride." -New York

A young American couple has abandoned a comfortable post-graduate life in the states for Belleville, a bustling, bohemian, multicultural Parisian neighborhood, and their fraught relationship begins to unravel as secrets are revealed in this nail-biting psychological thriller. Here, the Obie Award-winning Amy Herzog looks at the limits of trust, truth, deception, and dependency in a world where love and loss can be pathological and cathartic. Belleville received its world premiere at Yale Rep in 2011, and its New York and Chicago premieres in 2013 at New York Theatre Workshop and Steppenwolf Theatre Company, respectively.

Amy Herzog's plays include After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Lilly Award); 4000 Miles (Lincoln Center Theater, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Obie Award for the Best New American Play); The Great God Pan (Playwrights Horizons) and Belleville (Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize). She has received commissions from Yale Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Playwrights Horizons. Amy is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Helen Merrill Award, the Joan and Joseph F. Cullman Award for Extraordinary Creativity and the New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award. She is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop and an alumna of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre, Play Group at Ars Nova and teh Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab. She has taught playwright at Bryn Mawr and Yale, and received an MFA from the Yale School of Drama.