FROM THE PUBLISHER

Lyssa Dent Hughes is a privileged, well-educated daughter of a Republican senator and fifth-generation granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant, wife of a professor, owner of a pleasant Georgetown home. She is also the president's nominee for surgeon general. Then members of the media discover that once, in the past, she failed to respond to a call for jury duty. A relatively minor misstep - were it not for a good friend who uses the incident to make a point, scarcely thinking of the consequences. From that moment on, Lyssa Dent Hughes sits helplessly by while the press investigates her family and friends, shattering her privacy, her career, and her world.

FROM THE CRITICS

Newsday

Enormously moving, with richly written characters.

USA Today

[A] brave and ambitious play [that] portrays with withering accuracy the damage wrought by the tart-tongued TV culture of Washington.

Newark Star-Ledger

A great big feast of Satirical social comment. In the delicious second act, everything climaxes in one of those terrific scenes that makes an audience hold its collective breath for minutes on end. An American Daughter makes for thoughtful and lively theatergoing.

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