←Recommendations of See You in a Minute

This is one of those sneaky plays that starts funny with sandwiches, puppets and family situations and then quietly wrecks you. It blends a near-future pandemic with tech and deeply human grief to lands hard on your heart. Warm and devastating in the best way.

The community of National Committee readers for the 46th Bay Area Playwrights Festival advanced SEE YOU IN A MINUTE as a Semi-Finalist at Playwrights Foundation. We appreciated the play's dramaturgical focus on tender and realistic details within the family dynamic, such as inside jokes and information felt touching and true. We found the writing makes clear and intentional theatrical gestures, which are used in interesting and creative ways. We hope this play is considered for further development and investigation, and finds dedicated collaborators in this play’s journey towards production. #BAPF46

This play is an engaging and thought-provoking piece that draws the audience into a world both familiar and markedly different, questioning the resilience of family ties and the complex balance between personal and professional aspirations. "See You in a Minute" offers a compelling narrative that resonates deeply, sparking introspection on the intricacies of human connections and the impact of individual choices.

"See You in a Minute" represents a significant artistic achievement, combining the theatricality and political stakes of the playwright’s early work with a dramatic structure that deftly responds to concerns of past, present, and future. It will be tempting for critics to call it a “quiet masterpiece” full of “emotional truth,” phrases used by characters in the play to describe Thornton Wilder’s "Our Town." The play asks its audience to think about individual choices in situations where structural issues make ethical decisions all but impossible.