THE PLAY - THE PLAYWRIGHT - THE PRODUCTION
HEIDI SCHRECK is a writer and performer living in Brooklyn. Her critically-acclaimed play What the Constitution Means to Me played an extended, sold-out run on Broadway in 2019, and was nominated for two Tony Awards. It had subsequent runs at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Mark Taper Forum, the Guthrie, Seattle Repertory Theatre and the McCarter Theatre, as well as theatres in Houston, Miami, Omaha, Nashville, Charlotte and Chicago. A filmed version of the play premiered on Amazon Prime Video, and was nominated for a Critics Choice Award, a PGA Award and DGA Award. What the Constitution Means to Me was named Best of the Year by the The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Time Magazine, Hollywood Reporter, The New Yorker and more. Schreck’s other plays Grand Concourse, Creature, and There Are No More Big Secrets have also been produced in NYC and all over the country. Screenwriting credits include I Love Dick, Billions, Nurse Jackie, Dispatches from Elsewhere and shows in development with Amazon Studios, Plan B and A24. She is the recipient of three Obie Awards, a Drama Desk Award and a Theatre World Award, as well as the Horton Foote Playwriting Award and the Hull-Warriner Award from the Dramatists Guild. Schreck was awarded Smithsonian Magazine’s 2019 American Ingenuity Award, for her work in the Performing Arts.
Heidi Schreck on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater.
Photo by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
PRODUCTION HISTORY
2017
True Love Productions commissions Heidi Schreck to write What the Constitution Means to Me. The show premieres in June as part of Summerworks, produced by Clubbed Thumb in partnership with True Love Productions.
2018
In January, What the Constitution Means to Me has its West Coast premiere at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. In October, it premieres off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop.
2019
What the Constitution Means to Me opens on Broadway in March, and the run is extended twice due to popular demand. The show becomes a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and receives two Tony Award nominations.
2020
Following Broadway, What the Constitution Means to Me plays a record-breaking run at the Eisenhower Theater at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as two engagements in Los Angeles and Chicago before halting performances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A filmed version of the show streams on Netflix
2021
The national tour kicks off in September beginning at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Today
The play was the most-produced title of the 2023-2024 season, according to American Theatre magazine, and shows no sign of slowing down!
Schreck in conversation as part of the Kansas City Rep production in October 2023
Concord Theatricals "Now Playing" map of the show.
