Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo Three Plays

Rajiv Joseph is one of today's most acclaimed young playwrights. The winner of numerous awards, including an NEA award for Best Play and a Whiting Writers Award, he is an up-and-coming artist and one to watch. This volume gathers, for the first time, his three major works to date - 'Gruesome Playground Injuries', 'Animals out of Paper' and 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo'. Subtle, observant and ambitious, these plays showcase the talent of a rising young star on the contemporary theatre scene.

Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright and a 2010 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his play, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. His productions include Gruesome Playground Injuries, Animals Out of Paper, The Leopard and the Fox, Huck & Holden, and All This Intimacy. The North Pool premiered in 2011 at Theatre Works in Palo Alto. He received his BA in Creative Writing from Miami University and his MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He served for three years with the Peace Corps in Senegal.