Adam Bock

Adam Bock is a Canadian playwright. He is an artistic associate of the Shotgun Players theatre group in San Francisco. His many works produced off-Broadway have garnered an Obie Award and Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk nominations. In 2012, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work.

Bock was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut.

Bock's early plays were produced by New York City company Clubbed Thumb: Medea Eats (2000) and The Typographer's Dream (2002). His next play, Swimming in the Shallows, was produced by the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater in 2004. His play, The Thugs, premiered Off-Off-Broadway at SoHo Rep in 2006, directed by Anne Kauffman. Bock was awarded the 2007-2007 Obie Award for Playwriting for the play.

Bock's play, The Receptionist, was produced at Manhattan Theatre Club in 2007. The production was soon followed by another of Bock's plays, The Drunken City, premiering at Playwrights Horizons with the Kitchen Theatre Company based in Ithaca, New York. Both plays were nominated for the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway play for the 2007-2008 season.

Bock returned to Playwrights Horizons with A Small Fire, running from December 16, 2010 through January 23, 2011. His third collaboration with Playwrights Horizons was A Life, opening on September 30, 2016. The production was directed by Kauffman and starred David Hyde Pierce, and received multiple nominations at the 2017 Drama Desk Awards: Outstanding Play, Actor in a Play, Director of a Play, Set Design for a Play and Outstanding Sound Design for a Play.

In recent years, Bock's play Before the Meeting was produced by the Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Canadians was produced by South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, California, both in 2019.

Bock is openly gay and writes frequently about homosexuality in his works. He currently resides in New York City.