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Bill Cain, SJ (c. 1947–), is an American playwright and Jesuit priest. He founded a Shakespeare company in Boston,[when?][1] and the New York Times has praised him for his "impish humor".[1]

Works

Cain wrote the play Stand Up Tragedy and the play Nine Circles.

He was the co-creator of the television series Nothing Sacred, a drama series that depicted daily life in a modern Catholic parish, which aired in 1997-98 on ABC.[2] He won a Humanitas Prize and a Writers Guild of America Award for the show.[3]

His play Equivocation premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon, in 2009. Bill Rauch, Artistic Director of OSF, directed; Shag was played by Anthony Heald, Richard and Ensemble by Richard Elmore, Nate and Ensemble by Jonathan Haugen, Sharpe and Ensemble by John Tufts, Armin and Ensemble by Gregory Linington, and Judith by Christine Albright. The same cast later appeared at Seattle Repertory Theater as well. It was later produced at City Center in New York City in March 2010,[1] and as part of the 2014 season at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga, California, with Ted Barton, Alan Blumenfeld, Dane Oliver, Franc Ross, Taylor Jackson Ross, and Paul Turbiak in Mike Peebler's production. The Los Angeles production was hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a Critics' Choice.[4]

His play How to Write a New Book for the Bible was produced at Seattle's REP, January 13 to February 5, 2012, and afterwards, at various venues around the country. The play is based on Cain's own family.

References

  1. ^ a b c Charles Isherwood (2010-03-03). "If He Can, Above all, To His Own Self Be True". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-03-07. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
  2. ^ Sterngold, James (1997-10-25). "A Jesuit Takes the Heat For a Gritty TV Series About a Doubting Priest". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  3. ^ Kaiser, Robert Blair (2014). Inside the Jesuits: How Pope Francis Is Changing the Church and the World. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-4422-2901-3. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
  4. ^ "Review: An inventive, lively 'Equivocation' at Theatricum Botanicum". Los Angeles Times. 9 September 2014.
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