4000 Miles and After the Revolution

After the Revolution is a smart, funny, and provocative play. Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favour of richly detailed people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their consciences. - Variety

A funny, moving new play, 4000 Miles is a quiet meditation on mortality. But it's hardly a downer: Ms Herzog's altogether wonderful drama also illuminates how companionship can make life meaningful, moment by moment, in death's discomforting shadow. - The New York Times

Known for delicately detailed character studies that subtly balance humour and insight, Amy Herzog is swiftly emerging as a striking new voice in American theatre. After the Revolution, an astute and ironic drama about how society appropriates history for its own psychological needs, was heralded by The New York Times as one of the Ten Best New Plays of 2010. Herzog's other critical hit, 4000 Miles, is a quiet rumination on mortality in which twenty-one-year-old Leo seeks solace from his feisty ninety-one-year-old grandmother Vera in her New York apartment.

Amy Herzog received the 2011 Whiting Writers' Award and the 2008 Helen Merrill Award for Aspiring Playwrights. Her plays have been produced or developed at the Yale School of Drama, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Arena Stage, Lincoln Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, New York Stage and Film, Provincetown Playhouse, and ACT in San Francisco. Her newest play, Belleville, premiered at Yale Rep in autumn 2011.