TCG Books
In our 30-year history as a publisher, TCG Books has published the work of more than 235 playwrights and other theatre professionals in single volumes and anthologies, and sold over 1.8 million books. TCG also serves as the exclusive U.S. distributor for Playwrights Canada Press of Toronto, Padua Playwrights Press of Los Angeles, New York publishers PAJ Publications and Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Publications and London publishers Nick Hern Books, Aurora Metro Publications and Oberon Books. TCG Books now represents over 1,000 titles.
As a publisher of new plays and emerging playwrights, our dual objective is to bring new literary voices to public attention and to cultivate individual relationships with our playwrights that nurture their careers. Many of America's finest contemporary playwrights got their first publication with TCG Books, including Spalding Gray, Tony Kushner, Suzan-Lori Parks, José Rivera and Paula Vogel. TCG authors have won seven Pulitzer Prizes, six Tony Awards for Best Play or Musical Book and a Nobel Prize for Literature in addition to numerous OBIEs, Drama Desk awards and other national and international prizes. As a testimonial to the success and loyalty of TCG's relationships with our playwrights, every play published by TCG since 1984 is still in print.
New Books
TCG Books had another banner year publishing sixteen new titles, including for the first time the works of the prominent playwrights August Wilson (King Hedley II), Ping Chong (The East-West Quartet), Richard Nelson (Goodnight Children Everywhere and Other Plays) and John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize winner and 2005 Tony Award for Best Play, Doubt. TCG was also pleased to welcome exciting new playwrights Richard Maxwell (Plays, 1996-2000), Will Eno (Thom Pain (based on nothing) and Carl Hancock Rux (Talk).
Other highlights of 2004-2005 was the publication of new titles from long-time TCG authors which included Brooklyn Boy by Donald Margulies, The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel, Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori, Ensemble Works: An Anthology edited by Ferdinand Lewis, as well as new editions of Spalding Gray's masterpiece Swimming to Cambodia and Tony Kushner's Homebody/Kabul.
In addition to plays, TCG publishes several directories and reference books for theatre professionals. In 2004-2005 we were proud to publish The Art of Governance: Boards in the Performing Arts edited by Nancy Roche and Jaan Whitehead, as well new editions of the Dramatists Sourcebook (23rd edition) and the Theatre Directory, which lists contact information for all TCG member theatres and 68 related organizations.