Deep Blue Sound

"As Abe Koogler's sweet, sad village mosaic revealed itself heart fissure by heart fissure, silence spoke volumes." - ObserverLooking to find out what happened to a pod of whales that used to visit their small island in the Pacific Northwest, a close-knit community is brought together in response to environmental change, and the changes in their own lives.Abe Koogler's heartfelt play ebbs and flows from scene to scene as the islanders begin to confront their individual feelings of loneliness, and start to question what it is to have a meaningful life.Deep Blue Sound is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Crystal Finn.

Abe Koogler has won an Obie Award for Playwriting, the Dramatist Guild’s Lanford Wilson Award, and Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Weissberger Award. He earned graduate degrees in playwriting from UT-Austin and Juilliard. He has taught playwriting at Primary Stages and Bennington College. He also works as a political speechwriter.