sam & lizzie

by Emily Kaczmarek

Classmates Sam and Lizzie have their first playdate on 9/11, co-creating an imaginary queendom called Elmazi in order to make sense of the day. Over the next twenty years, the game recurs at startling intervals as the two women navigate their fierce, fraught, electric friendship.

Classmates Sam and Lizzie have their first playdate on 9/11, co-creating an imaginary queendom called Elmazi in order to make sense of the day. Over the next twenty years, the game recurs at startling intervals as the two women navigate their fierce, fraught, electric friendship.

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sam & lizzie

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  • Cheryl Bear: sam & lizzie by Emily Kaczmarek
    “

    An authentic and heartfelt capture of close friendship through the process of growing up, the love that endures through the worst. Well done.

    An authentic and heartfelt capture of close friendship through the process of growing up, the love that endures through the worst. Well done.

    ”
  • Jacqueline Bircher: sam & lizzie by Emily Kaczmarek
    “

    This play cuts like a knife. Raw, tender, and desperately true, it captures the special alchemy of intimate friendship transcending from girlhood to womanhood, and all the ways we can deeply love and callously hurt one another. A profound and exceptional coming-of-age story.

    This play cuts like a knife. Raw, tender, and desperately true, it captures the special alchemy of intimate friendship transcending from girlhood to womanhood, and all the ways we can deeply love and callously hurt one another. A profound and exceptional coming-of-age story.

    ”
  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center: sam & lizzie by Emily Kaczmarek
    “

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Emily Kaczmarek and their play Sam & Lizzie as a finalist for our 2018 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 53 finalists out of more than 1,4200 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

    It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Emily Kaczmarek and their play Sam & Lizzie as a finalist for our 2018 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one of 53 finalists out of more than 1,4200 submissions, the strength of its writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process.

    ”
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Development History

  • Reading, First Floor Theatre, 2017

Awards

  • Woodward/Newman Drama Award
    Finalist
    2019
  • The Kilroys List
    The Kilroys
    Honorable Mention
    2019
  • National Playwrights Conference
    The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
    Finalist
    2018
  • Premiere Stages Play Festival
    Kean University
    Semi-Finalist
    2017