Will Cooper

Playwright

Will Cooper is a playwright based in San Diego and Chicago. His plays Book of Leaves,  Jade Heart, and Margin of Error received positive reviews from critics and audiences alike. Will is a member of the Dramatists Guild and has been a Network Playwright at Chicago Dramatists since 2006.  A founding partner of the award-winning The Roustabouts Theatre Co., Will’s drama Margin of Error was produced by The Roustabouts at the Lyceum Theatre in San Diego in Spring 2017 and enjoyed a virtual run in 2020. Will’s newest play, a dark comedy called gUnTOPIA, opened, and closed in one night due to the pandemic, in March 2020.
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“Roustabouts’ Margin of Error.. Topical, taut…thoughtful and absorbing new drama.”

James Hebert
San Diego Union-Tribune

“Kudos to Cooper for a very clever, multi-dimensioned drama and to Chicago Dramatists who mounted this World Premiere. Highly Recommended.”

Beverly Friend

Chicago Critic

Margin of Error by Will Cooper

Critic’s Choice by the San Diego Union-Tribune

“Support your local playwrights doing good work like Jade Heart. Before you know, they might be the toast of Broadway.”

Broadway News Desk

Chicago Dramatists

“…this thought-provoking drama confronts critical issues of integrity, morality, abuse of power and women’s precarious position in the world of science.”

Pat Launer
Center Stage Theatre Critic, Jazz 88

“I think Cooper has captured the emotions of both the mother who without Jade would have been an empty woman and the daughter, who needs to know more just to satisfy her curiosity.”

Alan Bresloff

Steadstyle Chicago

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