Twin Cities playwright Harrison David Rivers, 35, is having a banner year, both in his personal life and in his career. He recently got married. And, count them, three Twin Cities theaters are producing his work next season.
"It's all kind of crazy but I'm loving it," he said Wednesday.
On Saturday, Rivers (right in photo) tied the knot with Christopher Bineham, his partner of two-and-half-years. Bineham is assistant director of development for individual giving at the St Paul Chamber Orchestra.
The wedding, which took place in downtown St Paul and was officiated by Jeremy Cohen, producing artistic director of the Playwrights' Center, was not something he could have predicted.
Rivers moved to the Twin Cities three years ago from New York, where he had lived for nine years and had become, by his own admission, artistically stuck.
He intended to live in Minnesota for a year — the length of his playwriting fellowship from the Jerome Foundation — then move back to New York.
"I thought I was just going to have a breather in a quiet place and be able to focus," he said. "But it's turned out to be so much more."
The more includes meeting Bineham. Playwright Josh Wilder, Rivers' friend who had moved to the Twin Cities on a Jerome Fellowship before Rivers, advised him to "find some warmth" in order to get through the winter. Rivers went online and found Bineham.
