Pizza Bagels

2025 Finalist, Princess Grace Award, New Dramatists

Two young Jewish men from different traditions of the diaspora discover that they were switched at birth. What do they owe the people from the lives into which they were and were not born? A family drama about the fickleness of fate and identity, and what you're born with when you're born a Jew.

2025 Finalist, Princess Grace Award, New Dramatists

Two young Jewish men from different traditions of the diaspora discover that they were switched at birth. What do they owe the people from the lives into which they were and were not born? A family drama about the fickleness of fate and identity, and what you're born with when you're born a Jew.

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Pizza Bagels

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  • Nick Malakhow: Pizza Bagels

    This is a beautiful, thought-provoking play. While always remaining grounded in its three dimensional characters, it thoughtfully explores American Jewish identity both at the individual and familial/group levels. The scenes were propulsive, and I found myself genuinely excited to see where all these seemingly small seismic decisions by Abraham and Leo in particular would lead. I'm eager to track this play and see it realized in production!

    This is a beautiful, thought-provoking play. While always remaining grounded in its three dimensional characters, it thoughtfully explores American Jewish identity both at the individual and familial/group levels. The scenes were propulsive, and I found myself genuinely excited to see where all these seemingly small seismic decisions by Abraham and Leo in particular would lead. I'm eager to track this play and see it realized in production!

  • Jacob Surovsky: Pizza Bagels

    I so thoroughly enjoyed this play as an evaluating reader for the Jewish Plays Project. I really liked how this play explored Jewish identity. At the start of the play, both Abraham and Leo appear to be secure in their identities and their relationship to Judaism, but as the play goes on their collisions with each other have a direct impact on how they view their own personal relationships to Judaism. This character-driven journey was so thoughtful and compelling.

    I so thoroughly enjoyed this play as an evaluating reader for the Jewish Plays Project. I really liked how this play explored Jewish identity. At the start of the play, both Abraham and Leo appear to be secure in their identities and their relationship to Judaism, but as the play goes on their collisions with each other have a direct impact on how they view their own personal relationships to Judaism. This character-driven journey was so thoughtful and compelling.

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