(Playwright) The York Theater produced SHYLOCK, Mr. Dixon’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s MERCHANT OF VENICE which garnered him a Drama Desk Nomination. Ed then went to Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting professor for the first mounting of PORTRAIT, his adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY.

At this point, Playwright’s Horizons became his artistic home, and he wrote CATHER COUNTY, an adaptation of short stories by Willa Cather. CATHER COUNTY was the success of the Playwright’s season and moved to Lyric Stage in Dallas where it received rave reviews and won the Leon Rabin Award for best new musical or play and was voted one of the ten best events in Dallas in 1998. While at Playwright’s he also wrote NORMA, a play for one person, which was performed by Carole Shelly and later received a full production at the Los Alamos festival.  Playwrights also produced a reading of THE SPECTER BRIDEGROOM, from Washington Irving’s short story, which also debuted at Lyric Stage and RICHARD CORY, which Ed wrote with A. R. Gurney, on a Steinburg Grant. RICHARD CORY was also chosen by the O’Neill Center for their 1998 Festival and then went to Lyric Stage for its world premiere. There it was also nominated for a Leon Rabin Award for best new work and then went on the NYMF Festival where it won the Festival and Audience Prize. RICHARD CORY was also produced in workshop at Lincoln Center. SCENERY, a play for two actors, recently opened at the Mason Street Warehouse starring Mr. Dixon and Lynne Wintersteller. It was enthusiastically received by audiences and critics alike. An earlier, and much different, version of SCENERY had previously played at the John Drew Theater in Long Island, directed by Frank Dunlop and starring Marilyn Sokol and Clive Revill.

FANNY HILL, his most recent musical, was produced by the Goodspeed Opera at Chester. It is based on the naughty novel by John Cleland and is a merry romp through the London of 1750. FANNY HILL made it’s New York debut at the York Theater (in 2006) where it won Two Dean’s List Awards and was nominated for Two Drama Desk Awards and a Dramalogue Award.

As a performer, Mr. Dixon was most recently featured on Broadway in THE ICEMAN COMETH and GORE VIDAL’S THE BEST MAN and THE PERSIANS. Other Broadway appearances include NO, NO, NANETTE, ROSALIE, KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY, KING OF SCHNORRERS, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, LES MISERABLES, CYRANO, THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL and ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER.