He and Rehana Lew Mirza are Mellon Foundation Playwrights in Residence at Ma-Yi where they co-wrote The Colonialism Trilogy and the book to Bhangin’ It with composer/lyricist Sam Willmott (La Jolla Playhouse, Richard Rodgers Award, Project Springboard and Rhinebeck Writers Retreat workshops). A slice-of-life comedy about parenthood in extremis, tiny father began as an Audible commission and is loosely based on playwright Mike Lew's own (I'm not gonna lie, incredibly painful) experience with a NICU baby.īIO: Mike ’s plays include Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse, Ma-Yi, Wooly Mammoth, Huntington) Tiger Style! (SCR, Olney, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Alliance) Bike America (Ma-Yi, Alliance) and microcrisis (Ma-Yi, InterAct). But he has a guide in the strange purgatory of hospital living: a grizzled oversharing nurse named Caroline. Kerry English Artist Award in 2021.ĭaniel's "friends with benefits" relationship comes to a screeching halt when he suddenly finds himself the new father to a months-premature baby on life support at the NICU. Julia is the recipient of OPC’s inaugural Dr. Her work has been presented at San Francisco Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, the National Asian American Theater ConFest, Dixon Place, FringeNYC, and Corkscrew Theater Festival. ? A farcical tragedy that questions the destructive nature of the American need for identity, while trying to wade through the murky waters of Asian-American-ness.īIO: A writer and performer who makes plays, musicals, and everything in between, Julia has developed work with Clubbed Thumb, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Bushwick Starr, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Black Swan Lab and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Meanwhile, Illy doesn't go on a journey because she's bought a part of the sky, so what more does she need? Meanwhile Elinore is in jail and Cam is melting. Meanwhile, Neel discovers he’s tone-deaf and decides to go on a journey to find himself. Illy and Neel fall in love and Mora is so upset she decides to go on a journey to find her birth mother. REGRETFULLY, SO THE BIRDS ARE by Julia Izumi Her play My Mañana Comes (Lucille Lortel Outstanding Play nominee, Drama Desk Outstanding Play nominee, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award nominee), received a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run and played at San Diego Rep, Marin Theatre Company, ArtsWest in Seattle, Teatro Vista in Chicago and Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston. Why do we blame survivors for the abuse inflicted upon them? Is this a way to allay our fear that we could ever be them? This play bravely shows a better way.īIO: Playwright, public school and prison educator, and radical socialist, Elizabeth was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, a Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, and a member of The Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group. A poignant story that searches for a different way to view survivors. The women confront the structures that condone partner violence and the role of friends and family in upholding those structures. They experience the traditional dynamics and limits of therapeutic work, the use of playacting as healing, and what it means to involve those outside the support group circle. Several women are in a domestic violence support group. Commissions from Playwrights Horizons, Audible, and MTC. Other plays include Plano (Clubbed Thumb), Evanston Salt Costs Climbing (White Heron/New Neighborhood OPC 2017), and Wheelchair (3 Hole Press). An exquisite insight into the longings for love and comfort in this troubled world.īIO: Hailing from Texas + Wyoming + seven sisters, Will’s play Heroes of the Fourth Turning was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the winner of the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play, the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, the John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award and the Whiting Award for Drama. In this tender quartet about community and caretaking, reality is a consensus not everyone consents to, whether they’re counted among the special, the “special needs,” or the so-called normal. Lot is different, or unique or brilliant or complicated or wrong.
Needing help, Christopher asks Ginny to spend time with a local outsider artist, Lot, whose outsider status extends beyond art. In Corsicana, a small city in the heart of Texas, a woman with Down syndrome and her half-brother find themselves unmoored in the wake of their mother’s death.
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