The Sound Inside received its world premiere at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in the summer of 2018. The production starred Mary-Louise Parker and was directed by David Cromer. The Williamstown production will transfer to Broadway in the fall of 2019 at Studio 54, with the same cast. The play was commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater. The Sound Inside was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. NYT critic Jesse Green named the play one of his top 10 shows of 2018. Rapp’s play Red Light Winter was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 2006. The play also earned him an Obie Award as well as Outer Critics Circle and Lortel nominations. Rapp’s other plays include The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois, Wolf in the River , The Metal Children. His playwriting honors include Boston’s Elliot Norton Award, The Helen Merrill Prize, The 2006 Princess Grace Statue, a Lucille Lortel Playwright’s Fellowship, The Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation Award. In addition to writing plays, Rapp is also a director. He directed the world premiere of Karen O’s psycho opera, Stop The Virgens , for The Creators Project at St. Ann’s Warehouse, which was then selected for The Vivid Live Festival, where it sold out the Sydney Opera House for six performances. He also directed Sam Shepard’s True West at Actors Theatre of Louisville, which went on to be named one of the 2012 Best Moments in Culture by Louisville’s N.P.R. Affiliate, WFPL. His production of Finer Noble Gases garnered a Fringe First Award at the 2006 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where he received The List’s Best Newcomer Prize. Rapp has taught at the Yale School of Drama.
