NEWS
A particular joy to have favorite writers Jen Silverman and Sanaz Toossi write about the play.
Playwrights Perspective for In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot:
“Because plays are both art and a hiring document, I also wrote this play to increase the number of roles available to women, trans, and nonbinary actors in the second half of their careers when so many artists are just reaching the peak of their abilities. The plays we write create jobs, and if we’re lucky, those plays create a lot of jobs. Our industry is made up of the people we’ve bothered to imagine and shuts out the people we haven’t.”
Come see In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot at Playwrights Horizons this fall! Produced in association with Breaking The Binary. Sivan Battat directs.
Come see the East Coast premiere of Everything That Never Happened in Stevie Walker-Webb’s inaugural season this winter at Baltimore Center Stage! A long awaited reunion with director Jessica Kubzansky.
Really enjoyed doing this interview with Esmé Ng of American Theatre Magazine, Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin, and D.A. Mindell on our recent workshops at Second Stage
Loved being in London with the Blackburn Prize. Congratulations Ava Pickett!
Just some Civil War reenactors spooning. Loved rewriting at Second Stage last week with this talented room: Mei Ann Teo, Robin de Jesus, Karen Eilbacher, Kelly McAndrew, Julian Rozzell, Marc Kudisch, Jess Barbagallo, Tom Nelis, Sydneii Colter, and Diana Oh, with serious support from designers, casting, and fight choreo.
Proud to have been a judge for the Susan Smith Blackburn Awards this year. What a stunning group of plays! See you in London y’all
I did an interview with The Folger on writing while mad at Shakespeare. I probably should have been less honest but it’s too late now. Check it out.
”Writing this play felt like fighting with Shakespeare. And that fight felt so uneven. The only things I had on my side were a) being alive and b) knowing what the heck I was talking about.”
Come see a reading of Everything That Never Happened on Sunday, January 28th at the The Folger Shakespeare Library. Basically I got mad at Shakespeare and rewrote Merchant of Venice for him.
Come see the first public reading of The Good Guys at Second Stage March 4th 2024
Just some Binary Breaking joy!
Fight Call is coming to the Breaking the Binary Festival! I can’t believe that this festival exists in my lifetime. I can’t believe that I get to be part of it. And go look at the LINEUP y’all. Come hang with us at The Public in October!
”How many ingenues can Emma play before she just completely loses it? FIGHT CALL is a time-bending story told through all of Shakespeare’s onstage female death scenes.”
Looking forward to my first summer at Sewanee Writers Conference
Fight Call is in excellent company as an O’Neill National Playwrights Festival finalist this year
In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize on Monday night! Here’s an interview I did with American Theatre Magazine from my hotel room in NY
Thrilled to be a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize with In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot
I wrote this piece about new play readings for the Playwrights Realm Aspiring Playwrights series
Thank you Playwrights Horizons for this stunning room and workshop of In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot
Loved talking to these smart folks about the future of new plays as part of the Syracuse Stage Cold Read Festival
Thank you Playwrights Horizons for the good company at this very first read of In The Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot
Thank you for the sweet summer return, MacDowell!
So thrilled to be bringing Fight Call to Artists Repertory Theatre…in person! Come join us for Mercury Festival!
Back at Artists Repertory Theatre with these brilliant humans and the newest draft of Fight Call
Grateful to be returning to Yaddo in 2022
Looking forward to some concentrated writing time at Hedgebrook
Thank you, Fresh Ground Pepper for the beautiful residency week (yes, in a horse stall)
I needed this piece to exist so I wrote it. A big thank you to American Theatre Magazine for publishing it
Big thanks Aldo Billingslea for bringing The Good Guys to Playground & The Juneteenth Theatre Justice Project
Thank you Playwrights Realm for the wonderful retreat week and the chance to rewrite Fight Call on this porch swing
Thank you The Playwrights Realm for a great reading of The Good Guys right when I needed it. Grateful for the talent and insights of Chay Yew, Amrita Ramanan, Karen Eilbacher, Sam Henderson, Birgit Huppuch, Joel Perez, Aldo Billingslea, and David Bardeen
Excited to workshop Fight Call, a play that takes place in all of Shakespeare’s female death scenes, with director Avital Shira, fight choreographer Kristen Mun, and this brilliant room as part of Artist Repertory Theatre’s Mercury Company III
Update: if you haven't seen Kristen Mun act out fight choreography over Zoom by herself in front of her fridge than you haven't lived
Thrilled to be part of Geva Theatre Center’s 25 playwright micro-commission project on Rochester changemakers. Watch for my piece How to Write a Play about writing a micro-commission on Rochester changemakers
Loved my second year teaching The Art of Rewriting at SUNY Purchase.
Thrilled to be the recipient of a Toulmin Foundation grant with Playwrights Horizons for a new play about falling in love as the world ends.
Grateful to be a part of the launch of 3Views with this essay on the production of Everything That Never Happened which would have opened in 2020 at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
Everything That Never Happened is headed to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 2020!
Loved this joyful return to Tiny at Bristol Riverside Theatre
Grateful for all the smart brains in our workshop of The Good Guys at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Forgot to get a picture so Derek and Rob took a make-up shot with me on The Bricks. Pictured here trying very hard to be tall enough
Mrs. Galveston will have a reading with these wonderful folks and some Pie Birds NY Times recommended pie at Pie, Pint, and a Play Reading
An wonderful evening with Play By Play and The Good Guys
To start off 2019, I’ll be spending a month in residence at Jentel beginning a new play. Also climbing mountains and baking high-altitude cowboy cookies.
Very excited to spend a snowy couple months at The MacDowell Colony at the end of 2018 working on The Good Guys
We’re an LA Times Critic’s Pick!
“Sarah B. Mantell’s ingeniously revisionist take on Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” reconsiders the text from a Jewish perspective, combined with a blistering feminist bent. . . ”
In May 2018 I will be workshopping Tiny out at Seattle Repertory Theatre
In April 2018 my year as a Writing Fellow at The Playwrights Realm culminates in a reading of Everything That Never Happened at the Ink’d Festival of New Plays
Enjoyed this #talkbacktuesday interview with The Playwrights Realm