Will Arbery is an American playwright, screenwriter and TV writer, known for his plays Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Plano, and Evanston Salt Costs Climbing.
[3] The New Yorker described the play as a "David Lynch script performed as screwball comedy";[4] Helen Shaw, writing in Time Out New York, wrote "It's delicious to see a playwright binding genres so confidently (body-double horror and rueful family comedy), but the real pleasure is in how much Plano manages to bend how you perceive reality beyond the proscenium";[5] and Vulture proclaimed that "Plano is a fiercely smart contemporary dream play".
[6] In October 2019, Arbery received critical acclaim for his play Heroes of the Fourth Turning, which made its world premiere off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons.
[11] According to Jesse Green of The New York Times, this "astonishing new play", directed "with nerves of steel" by Danya Taymor, "explores the lives and ideas of conservatives with affection, understanding and deep knowledge — if not, ultimately, approval".
He knows how to make ideas incandescent in time and space and his ear for the rhythms of speech is impeccable, yet he always cracks a window in naturalism, letting a shaft of eeriness in.