Awards & Accolades

“As Murray Mednick experiments with language… he is emblematic of a Los Angeles dramatic tradition in much the same way that Clifford Odets is identifiable with Gotham or David Mamet with Chicago.”

—Variety

“You can recognize a Mednick play almost instantly through not only its daring use of language but also through the visceral acting.”

— KCRW 89.9 FM

“One of L.A.’s creative fountainheads”

— Los Angeles Times

“Playwright Murray Mednick is a veteran innovator who remains dedicated to shaking up the theatrical format.”

— Los Angeles Times

“[A] playwright’s playwright… Mednick has spent his career at the forefront of avant-garde theater.”

— LA Weekly

“Accorded the prestigious Margaret Harford Award for Sustained Excellence in Theater by the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle, the ever-unpredictable Murray Mednick is certainly living up to his laurels.”

— Variety

“Mednick as a director remains his best interpreter. The world onstage never strays from his singular vision”

— The Hollywood Reporter

“Like me, Murray is a mystic, one Jewish, the other Irish. What a gift he is.”

John O’Keefe