Rajiv Joseph

Personal Information

Rajiv Joseph’s plays include Guards at the Taj, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, (2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama), The North Pool, Gruesome Playground Injuries and Animals Out of Paper. He is the librettist for the upcoming opera, Shalimar the Clown, adapted from the novel of the same name by Salman Rushdie, which will have its premiere at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in 2016. He has been awarded artistic grants from the Whiting Foundation, United States Artists and the Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust. He served for three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal.

Credits

Author

	Production	Theatre	Opened	Credit
1	King James	New York City Center/ Stage I	05/16/2023	Playwright
2	Letters Of Suresh	Second Stage Theatre	10/12/2021	Playwright
3	Describe the Night	Linda Gross Theater	12/05/2017	Playwright
4	Guards at the Taj	Linda Gross Theater	06/11/2015	Playwright
5	The North Pool	Vineyard Theatre	03/06/2013	Playwright
6	Gruesome Playground Injuries	Second Stage Theatre	01/23/2011	Playwright
7	Animals Out of Paper	McGinn-Cazale Theatre	08/04/2008	Playwright
8	All This Intimacy	McGinn-Cazale Theatre	07/27/2006	Playwright

Awards

		Award	Production	Function
1	NOMINATED	2022 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Letters Of Suresh	Playwright
2	WON	2018 Obie Award, Best New American Play	Describe the Night	Playwright
3	WON	2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Guards at the Taj	Playwright
4	WON	2016 Obie Award, Best New American Play	Guards at the Taj	Playwright
5	NOMINATED	2009 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Play	Animals Out of Paper	Playwright