Lee Blessing is an American playwright whose best-known play, A Walk in the Woods, was a Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Winner (Booth Theatre). It was later produced in London's West End and seen on PBS's American Playhouse.
Blessing's other plays include A View of the Mountains and Whores (New Jersey Repertory), Great Falls (Profiles Theatre), Lonesome Hollow (Side Project Theatre), A Body of Water, a Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award Winner (Guthrie Theater), The Roads That Lead Here, Down the Road, and War of the Roses (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Black Sheep, Thief River, and Eleemosynary (Florida Stage), Chesapeake (2econd Stage), The Winning Streak (Arena Stage), Going to St. Ives (Fountain Theatre), Fortinbras (Defiant Theatre), Cobb (Meadow Brook Theatre), Two Rooms (La Jolla Playhouse), Reagan in Hell (Bleecker Street), and When We Go Upon the Sea (Adrienne Theatre).
