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New Plays Festival: 'Quarryman'


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Registration will open on Friday, April 3 at 12 PM.

by Tim Lucey

Showtimes
Saturday, April 25, 8PM
Sunday, April 26, 3:30PM
Sunday, April 26, 8 PM

Columbia University School of the Arts presents Quarryman, a playwriting thesis production by student Tim Lucey and directed by student Dennis Oliveira.

Set in New Hampshire during 1975, John Burton, a worker at a Coös County quarry, goes missing and a group of fellow workers and community members try to piece together what has happened.


About the Playwright

Tim Lucey is a NYC-based playwright from Massachusetts. His plays include The Bog Queen and The Orchard. He recently worked as a script assistant for Stephen Adly Guirgis on Dog Day Afternoon. Quarryman is Tim’s MFA thesis play and he is graduating from Columbia University’s School of the Arts this May.

About the New Plays Festival
Columbia University School of the Arts presents a festival of new plays written by the 2026 Columbia MFA Playwriting Cohort. The esteemed faculty who nurtured these students, including Tony©, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as James Ijames, Lynn Nottage, Rogelio Martinez, Blair Singer, Noelle Vinas, Charles L. Mee, Michael Korie, David AuburnLeslie Ayvazian, and David Henry Hwang, invite everyone to experience these innovative new playwrights.

Organized by James Ijames, Theatre.

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Class of 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition