Rich Orloff is one of the most popular unknown playwrights in the country. His plays have received over 600 productions, numerous awards, and oodles of laughter.
*Full-length plays (mostly comedies) include:
  • ADVANCED CHEMISTRY
    - winner, 2002 Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence
  • BIG BOYS - winner, 1997 InterPlay International Play Festival,
    2nd place, 2002 Kaufman & Hart Prize for New American Comedy
  • DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY
    - winner, 1999 Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest
  • FUNNY AS A CRUTCH
    - The New York Times Critic's Pick, 2008
  • FOREIGN AFFAIRS
    - New York magazine Off-Off-Broadway pick, 2005
  • LOVE HAPPENS - winner, 1994 Playwrights First Award
  • SHEDDING LIGHT
    - winner, 2000 Abeles Foundation Playwrights Award
  • SKIN DEEP – winner, 2008 Larry Corse Playwriting Prize
  • SOMEONE’S KNOCKING
    - critic’s pick, Back Stage West, 1998
  • VERONICA'S POSITION
    - winner, 1995 Festival of Emerging American Theatre
  • VIETNAM 101: THE WAR ON CAMPUS
    (produced at colleges across the country)
  • and the comic revues OY! and ROMANTIC FOOLS
*Rich’s plays have been presented across the country at such theaters as American Stage Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Dayton Playhouse, Florida Studio Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Phoenix Theatre Company, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Shadowland Theatre, West Coast Ensemble, the WorkShop Theater Company, twice at Theatre Conspiracy, and three times at the Key West Theatre Festival.

*Author of over a dozen one-acts and over 60 short plays, Rich’s short comedies have been published four times in the annual Best American Short Plays series, in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2007, in The Bedford Guide to Literature, in the bilingual collection An Anthology of Contemporary American Plays (published in China), and in anthologies published by Random House and Western Michigan University Press.  Playscripts has published eight volumes of his plays. (For details, visit Rich's page at Playscripts.com.)

*Rich's one-acts have had over 500 productions on six of the seven continents (and a staged reading in Antarctica).

*Rich has also written for newspapers, magazines, radio, television, industrial films, educational videos, advertising, and charity galas. While in Kosovo in 2000, Rich wrote the children’s play SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS FIGHT TUBERCULOSIS for Doctors of the World.

*Rich lives in New York City, but he loves to travel (and has visited 33 states so far to develop productions, talk at colleges, and work as a playwright).

*Rich is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild of America, the WorkShop Theater Company, and is the Relatively Artistic Director of the Foolish Theatre Company.