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Directed by Jake Beckhard, the production showcases an ensemble cast of NYU Tisch Drama students.
SAY GAY PLAYS to be Presented by About Face Theatre and Silk Road Cultural Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 17, 2025
Chicago's About Face Theatre and Silk Road Cultural Center will present SAY GAY PLAYS.
Each play in the cycle considers an important moment in the life of the main character, beginning with childhood in rural Western Massachusetts, and then progressing through college, coming to terms with her sexual identity, and onto adulthood. It had the goal of creating a full production for each author. Her ten-minute play, Dinner, is published in a collection called Not So Sweet, sixteen plays from Soho Repertory Theatre’s Ten-Minute Play Festival.
She is an alumnus of New Dramatists and a member of 13P, Labyrinth Theater Company and Rising Phoenix Rep. She got to spend time with Sundance Theatre at UCROSS in Wyoming. The Insurgents was produced at Labyrinth Theater Company and Contemporary Ameri-can Theater Festival.
South Shore Theatre Experience to Present WHERE WE'RE BORN by Lucy Thurber
by A.A.
Cristi - Jun 10, 2025
Lindenhurst’s South Shore Theatre Experience will present Where We’re Born, Lucy Thurber’s gripping and intimate drama exploring identity, class, and sexual politics. She has written screenplays for Debra Granik, Rachel Weisz and Maven and has developed work with FX, HBO, Nanette Burstein, Sarah Paulson and Lena Dunham.
Lucy Thurber
She was born in rural western Massachusetts, a place that is important as a setting or reference for a number of her plays.
Road Theatre Company Calls For Submssions For Its 16th Annual Summer Playwrights Festival
by Stephi Wild - Jan 23, 2025
The Road Theatre Company has announced the play submission process is now open for new material to be considered for their upcoming playwrights festival.
The Hearth To Present World Premiere Of Kallan Dana's RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR
by A.A.
Cristi - Sep 27, 2024
The Hearth announced the World Premiere of Kallan Dana's RACECAR RACECAR RACECAR, directed by Sarah Blush, running December 2-22 at the Connelly Theater. Her play, Bottom of the World, opened the 2010–2011 season at The Atlantic Theater Company, and was produced by WET in the winter of 2005 and was previously workshopped at The Eugene O’Neill Playwrights’ Center.
She received a Lilly Award in 2010.
SAY GAY PLAYS Will Have a Benefit Reading at NYU Skirball Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Apr 22, 2024
Voyage Theater Company will present SAY GAY PLAYS, an evening of queer theater to benefit New Alternatives For Homeless LGBT Youth on Monday, May 13 at NYU Skirball. Also in 2001, she was commissioned by The Keene Theater Company to write a short piece called The Kool-Aid Smile, which was presented in “Keene America.”
Thurber was a guest artist at the Perseverance Theatre twice, where she helped to adapt both Moby-Dick and Desire Under the Elms.
Cherry Lane Theatre Will Reopen With a New Dining Experience
by Stephi Wild - Jun 24, 2025
The soon-to-be-reopened Cherry Lane Theatre will feature a unique dining option! The play explores a daughter and father's surreal road trip. She completed a new play commissioned by Playwrights Horizons. Lucy is published by Dramatists Play Service.
Lucy has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, the Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Houses on The Moon, Yale Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, A.C.T.