Lauren Gunderson most produced living playwright in 2016 and 2017. Gunderson was awarded the Lanford Wilson award in 2016. Her play "I and You" was the winner of the 2014 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/American Theatre Critics Association New Play Award, and a finalist for the 2014 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Forward Theater, located in Madison, Wisconsin, will stage "I and You" from November 2–19, 2017. Artists Repertory Theatre, located in Portland, Oregon, will stage "I and You" from May 20 to June 17, 2018. Gunderson's play "Exit, Pursued By A Bear" has been performed around the country, winning Best Comedy in Austin,
The Bear (play) "The Bear". The main similarity between the two involves the idea of the male being a 'bear' tamed by a woman. "Les Jurons de Cadillac" was originally performed by the actor Nikolai Solovstov, whom Chekhov dedicates "The Bear" to and ultimately plays the role of Smirnov. It had its first English language premiere in London in 1911. The United States premiere was in New York in 1915. In 1935, Russian theatre producer and director Vsevolod Meyerhold produced "33 Swoons" (also translated as "33 Fainting Fits"), which was a production that combined Chekhov's "The Anniversary", "The Bear", and "The Proposal". Meyerhold