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Food For Thought, is a leading theatre company located at Theatre Row, 410 West 42nd Street, specializing in the performance of one-act plays.

History
Food For Thought started out in the Fall of 2000, created by writer Susan Charlotte in order to "cultivate and providea venue for the one-act form, offer[ing] an opportunity to see high quality theatre with...accomplished actors at affordable prices." Food For Thought has just completed its twenty-fourth season, having previously premiered new works by Lynn Redgrave and Tony Kushner and one-act versions of various Tennessee Williams plays, such as A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass  Menagerie, performed exclusively by Food For Thought.

Artists
Notable playwrights, directors, actors, and theater artists who have worked at Food For Thought include Danny Aiello,Richard Easton, Arthur Miller, Lauren Bacall, Kathleen Turner, Christine Ebersole, Louise Lasser,Judith Light, Rosie Perez, Tony Roberts, Penny Fuller, Marian Seldes, Antony Marsellis, Campbell Scott, Kyria Sedgwick, Treat Williams, Kathleen Chalfant, Mark Connelley, A.R. Gurney

Premieres
Food For Thought Productions has premiered the following works:


 * "Nighingale" by Lynn Redgrave
 * "East Coast Ode to Howard Jarvis" by Tony Kushner
 * "The Man WHo Couldn't Stop Crying" by Murray Schisgal
 * "Grandpa Clemens and Angelfish 1908" by Joyce Carol Oates
 * POP by Michael Christofer
 * The one-act versions of by Tennesse Williams

Awards
In June 2002, Food For Thought won the National Arts Club Gold Medal of Honor for Achievement in the Dramatic Arts. Past winners of this award include John Houseman, Lauren Bacall and Rex Harrison.