Brian Silberman’s plays include Woman in a Hat, The Fear of Small Numbers, The Romeo and Juliet of Sarajevo, a 2016 Finalist for the O’Neill National Playwright’s Conference, Manifest, recipient of the 1998 Clauder Prize and the 2003 Pinter Review Prize for Drama, produced by Portland Stage Company, and published by the University of Tampa Press, Esperanto: A 10-minute play, anthologized in Best Short Plays of 2019, Salvage Baas, anthologized in New American Short Plays 2015 and produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre, Capgras Delusion, Chattanooga: a series of monologues for a solo performer, Walkin’ Backward, which appears in the anthology Best American Short Plays of 2001, Throw, Sugar Down Billie Hoak, produced Off-Broadway by New American Stage Company and Trap Door Theatre Chicago, Feral Music, Half Court, Retrenchment, and The Gospel According to Toots Pope. Selected scenes and monologues appear in Smith & Kraus’s Best Stage Scenes of 1995, Best Men’s Monologues of 1995, and Best Women’s Monologues of 1995 and in the Applause Theatre & Cinema Books anthologies The Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays 2019, The Best Women’s Monologues from New Plays 2019, The Best Women’s Monologues from New Plays 2020 and The Best Men’s Monologues from New Plays 2020. He’s been awarded residencies at Yaddo, Macdowell, Ucross Foundation, Djerassi Resident Artist Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and The Edward F. Albee Foundation, among others.