Lizzie Stern

Lizzie Stern

Lizzie Stern is a playwright in New York, and the Literary Director at Playwrights Horizons. She is currently a playwright in EST/Youngblood, a Colt Coeur 2021-22 Resident Artist, and a member of Beehive Dramaturgy. Her plays have been developed with Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writer’s Group and SPACE on Ryder Farm, and produced by The Tank, Two Headed Rep, and New Brooklyn Theatre in Istanbul. She holds a BA from Williams College.

Plays

  • Williamsburg by Lizzie Stern
    Cast: 
    7–8
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: Surreal
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, horror, political, satire
    Keyword: Surreal
    Dystopian comedy. It’s 2028 and the L Train was never restored. Williamsburg, Brooklyn is cut off from society and becomes Colonial Williamsburg.
  • don't make yourself crazy by Lizzie Stern
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 1 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, political
    On the border between the Upper East Side and Harlem, a young woman and her childhood friend are the last middle class holdouts in their pre-war building. In order to protect the apartment of her late grandmother - a holocaust refugee - from a greedy, narcissistic Wall Street bro, she must harness her grandmother's will to fight for what's rightfully hers in the crucible of gentrification.
  • Let's get ready together by Lizzie Stern
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    6–7
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Freshman year. Three 18-year-old girls from different class backgrounds cope with privilege, or passing for privileged, at a competitive liberal arts college in New England. They can’t handle saying goodbye to their moms. A hate crime happens, targeting Mexican students. The play asks, what does it look like to belong or not belong in this friend group, and by extension in this school, and by extension in America?