May Treuhaft-Ali

May Treuhaft-Ali

May Treuhaft-Ali is a playwright, director, and dramaturg from Queens, New York. She is currently a member of Page 73’s Writers Group and Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Her play ABCD had its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in July 2022, and her play Escapegoat had a workshop production at Boston Court Pasadena later that year. She was the 22-23 Van Lier Fellow at Rattlestick Theater. Her...
May Treuhaft-Ali is a playwright, director, and dramaturg from Queens, New York. She is currently a member of Page 73’s Writers Group and Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Her play ABCD had its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in July 2022, and her play Escapegoat had a workshop production at Boston Court Pasadena later that year. She was the 22-23 Van Lier Fellow at Rattlestick Theater. Her plays have been developed at Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, The Playwrights Realm, The Movement Theatre Company, MCC Theater, Irish Repertory Theatre, and the Cape Cod Theatre Project. She has received commissions from Barrington Stage and South Coast Repertory. May works as the Literary & Community Engagement Assistant at Playwrights Horizons.

Plays

  • ABCD by May Treuhaft-Ali
    Recommendations: 5
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    Cast: 
    8
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    Genre: drama
    Genre: drama
    In an underserved public school on the verge of shutdown, a teacher erases wrong answers from his students’ exams, hoping higher scores will keep the school open. In an elite magnet program nearby, a student texts 140 classmates the answers for a physics test. ABCD weaves these stories together to interrogate the inequities of our public school system. When the joys and challenges of learning are reduced to a...
    In an underserved public school on the verge of shutdown, a teacher erases wrong answers from his students’ exams, hoping higher scores will keep the school open. In an elite magnet program nearby, a student texts 140 classmates the answers for a physics test. ABCD weaves these stories together to interrogate the inequities of our public school system. When the joys and challenges of learning are reduced to a multiple-choice test, who runs out of options?
  • Motherland by May Treuhaft-Ali
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 3 more
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    Keyword: motherhood, safety + 2 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, drama, fable/folktale, fantasy
    Keyword: motherhood, safety, cross-cultural encounter, chosen family
    Two pregnant women of color from Chicago devise a plan to raise their children in rural Ireland, where one of them has distant relatives. Their hopes of starting a new life are complicated when they discover that the land itself is haunted by a history not unlike their own.
  • Quick Service by May Treuhaft-Ali
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 1 more
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    Keyword: food service, workplace drama
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, horror
    Keyword: food service, workplace drama
    QUICK SERVICE is a play about the precarities of the food service industry, set in an empanada shop in Chicago. Four employees try to make it through the dinner rush as something sinister rises up from the basement, ex-coworkers enact their revenge, and the oven has a mind of its own.
  • ESCAPEGOAT by May Treuhaft-Ali
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    3
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    Genre: dark comedy, political
    Genre: dark comedy, political
    Humans brought goats to the Galápagos. The goats ate everything in sight. The islands dried up and the tortoises died out. In order to save the last living tortoise, the humans must exterminate the goats before it is too late. ESCAPEGOAT is an eco-parable about who has a right to live where, human intervention in non-human ecosystems, and the species whose fates are inextricable from our own.
  • HIS MAJESTY, HERSELF by May Treuhaft-Ali
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adventure, fantasy + 1 more
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    Keyword: Ancient Egypt
    Genre: adventure, fantasy, young audiences
    Keyword: Ancient Egypt
    When she is approached by the legendary female pharaoh Hatshephut, Reem's class trip to Cairo turns into an epic journey to set the record straight on Hatshephut's legacy. Along the way, she travels to ancient ruins and mythical lands, seeking a way to make her heritage her own.
  • NAKED FAT MAN by May Treuhaft-Ali
    Recommendations: 2
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: genderqueer, magical realism + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, experimental, fantasy
    Keyword: genderqueer, magical realism, Art and Artists
    The inner monologue of a colossal, nude sculpture with male anatomy. A play about the tendency of art to take on a life of its own, beyond human control.