Satellites
by Erin Breznitsky
directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
July 5, 6 & 7 at 7:30 PM ET
About the play: Married couple Katherine & Mike are each on a mission to save the world. She’s a scientist studying climate change; he’s an astronaut exploring the unknown. When Mike’s shuttle vanishes in outer space, Katherine forges ahead alone, raising their children and continuing her life’s work….Until Mike suddenly reappears on Earth seven years later, without explanation. As the couple struggles to adjust to his strange return, they’re forced to reexamine their relationship—both as it is now and as it used to be—while also facing the fragility of human connection, the limitations of life on a dying planet, and the fear of an uncertain future.
Erin Breznitsky is a Brooklyn-based playwright whose work has been seen in NYC and abroad. Most recently, her play Satellites was named the winner of Premiere Stages’ Play Festival. Erin has been a finalist for Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries, a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwright’s Conference and the Princess Grace Playwriting Award, and her full-length plays have received workshop productions at FringeNYC, Rogue & Peasant Players, and English Theatre of Rome, Italy. Her numerous 10-minute plays have appeared in Six Part / Reign or Shine Productions’ “Love Drunk” series and New York Madness. Other projects include a commission by Urban Stages for young audiences and participating in “The Living Mural,” a socially distant pop-up performance in summer 2020. Erin is the recipient of the Lipkin Prize for Playwriting and a full scholarship to La MaMa’s International Playwrights Retreat in Spoleto, Italy. She holds an MFA in Theatre from Sarah Lawrence College and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.
Dirty Laundry
by Mathilde Dratwa
directed by Hal Brooks
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
July 11, 12 & 13 at 7:30 pm ET
About the play: Following the unexpected loss of her mother and the shocking discovery of her father’s infidelity, an adult daughter juggles grief and anger. Her father, on the other hand, tries his best to verbalize his complicated feelings about love, loss, lust… and household chores. Meanwhile, another woman ponders: is she still “the other woman” when the original woman is gone? An uproariously opinionated chorus provides the galloping cadence to this comedy-drama that puts everything on the table to explore the extremes of human emotion.
Mathilde Dratwa’s plays include Milk and Gall (Theatre503), A Play about David Mamet Writing a Play about Harvey Weinstein, Esther Perel Ruined My Life, and Dirty Laundry (Audible; Henley Rose Award). Her work has been presented by the Ground Floor / Berkeley Rep, the Ojai Playwrights Conference, Roundabout Theatre Company, Rattlestick, Berkshire Theatre Group, American Players Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company and in London at the Young Vic. Mathilde is an inaugural Powers Playwriting Fellow at the Old Globe, a Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, and was recently a member of the Orchard Project’s Greenhouse, a Dramatist Guild Foundation Playwriting Fellow and a member of New York Foundation for the Arts’ Immigrant Artist Program. She has developed film/TV content for Netflix, FX, Chernin Entertainment, LuckyChap, Endeavor, Dirty Films, Red Wagon, Sony/TriStar and Wiip.
barren
by Alex Lin
directed by Iris McCloughan
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
July 18, 19 & 20 7:30 pm ET
About the play: Yifei is an OB/GYN. Yifei wants a baby. Yifei is barren. What crueler irony is there for a baby doctor who can’t have a baby? One that tasks her with ensuring a safe, happy, and healthy delivery for her formerly estranged younger sister, Max. barren is the story of two sisters navigating two entirely different fates in finding, creating, and embracing family.
Alex Lin is just a girl from Jersey. Plays developed at Second Stage, Roundabout, NYTW, MTC, Two River Theatre, the O’Neill, South Coast Rep, Playwrights Realm, Central Square Theatre, and Theater Mu. Guest lectures at CMU, Rutgers, and Union College. As an actor: Actors Theatre of Louisville (The Wolves), New Victory (In the Land of Mauve & Gold), HVSF (Julius Caesar), Ma-Yi (The House of Billy Paul, Somebody is Looking Back At Me), Jewish Plays Project (Zionista Rising), and Commonwealth Shakespeare (Henry VI Part III, Richard III). Juilliard.
Asilomar
by Dipika Guha
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
July 25, 26 & 27 at 7:30 pm ET
About the Play: In 1975, a group of scientists gathers at a conference in Asilomar, California to discuss the safety and regulation of a cutting-edge new technology: genetic engineering. Decades later, gifted scientist Dr. Annie Roy devotes herself to this field of study, facing breakneck competition towards the discovery of CRISPR technology, with nuclear implications for the human species. Commissioned by MTC through the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Asilomar is about the culture of competition in science, the ethics that accompany scientific discovery, and the implications of gene editing technology in our quest for advancement.
Dipika Guha was born in India and raised in UK and Russia. Her plays include Yoga Play (South Coast Rep, SF Playhouse, Playmakers Rep and others), The Art of Gaman (Theatre 503, London) and Unreliable (Kansas City Rep). She was the inaugural recipient of the Shakespeare’s Sister Award, the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the Venturous Fellowship for her play Passing. She is currently under commission from South Coast Rep and Berkeley Rep and is adapting a novel for TV for A24. For TV, she’s written on “American Gods,” “Sneaky Pete,” “Black Monday,” “The Marvelous Mrs Maisel,” and currently “Quarter Life” by Riz Ahmed. Dipika is a proud member of New Dramatists, an alumnus of the WP Lab, Ars Nova’s Play Group, Soho Rep W/D Lab, Geffen Writers Room, Playwrights Foundation, Ma Yi Writers Lab, and Playwrights Center. Dipika received her BA in English Literature at University College London, was a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard University, and was awarded her MFA from the Yale School of Drama under Paula Vogel.
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- Monday, July 22 | Dipika Guha at Museums on the Green
