Out100: Jon Robin Baitz

Photography by M. Sharkey

His Tony-nominated Other Desert Cities marked the playwright's Broadway debut when it premiered in 2011. A portrait of a dysfunctional wealthy family with widely different political views reunited at a Christmas Eve in Palm Springs, the play went on to be a finalist for the 2012 Pulitizer Prize.

Photographed at the Box in New York City on September 13, 2012

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