Elizabeth Irwin

Elizabeth Irwin

ELIZABETH IRWIN was born in Worcester, raised by Brooklyn and finished by el D.F. (aka Mexico City). In addition to being a playwright she is also a public school and prison educator and radical socialist. She was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and Playwrights Realm’s Page One Resident Playwright. Her play My Mañana...
ELIZABETH IRWIN was born in Worcester, raised by Brooklyn and finished by el D.F. (aka Mexico City). In addition to being a playwright she is also a public school and prison educator and radical socialist. She was a member of the Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, the Public Theater’s Emerging Writers Group and Playwrights Realm’s Page One Resident Playwright. Her play My Mañana Comes (Lucille Lortel Outstanding Play nominee, Drama Desk Outstanding Play Nominee, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award Nominee), received its critically acclaimed off Broadway debut at the Peter Jay Sharp theater and was also at San Diego REPertory Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, ArtsWest Seattle, Teatro Vista in Chicago and Premiere Stages in Houston. Her play terrace play (2021) completed a sold out run in Flatbush, Brooklyn and was featured in Brooklyn Paper. Her work has been developed at the La Jolla DNA New Works Festival, Space on Ryder Farm, and the Omega Institute. She is currently a member of the Primary Stages Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group and the 2020-21 Ojai Playwrights Conference.

Plays

  • Getting Over by Elizabeth Irwin
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: American college students, narcotics + 5 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: American college students, narcotics, sex work, Central Massachusetts, Massachusetts, higher education, new england
    In an effort to become more than a benign neighbor to the deteriorating post-industrial city down the road, a prestigious liberal arts college in western Massachusetts begins a “Regional Scholars” program to pluck the most promising students from its environs. Patrick Tivnan is one of the lucky, the chosen to enter the precious world of rolling green hills and plentiful narcotics, gleaning all sorts of wisdom...
    In an effort to become more than a benign neighbor to the deteriorating post-industrial city down the road, a prestigious liberal arts college in western Massachusetts begins a “Regional Scholars” program to pluck the most promising students from its environs. Patrick Tivnan is one of the lucky, the chosen to enter the precious world of rolling green hills and plentiful narcotics, gleaning all sorts of wisdom from his upper crust classmates and classes alike but it turns out the college’s generous educational gift perhaps should have come with more explicit instructions.
  • My Mañana Comes by Elizabeth Irwin
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: immigration, working class + 6 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: immigration, working class, class conflict, Union, restaurant, black actors, Latino actors, labor
    Plates in, plates out, glasses in, glasses out, we need ice, table four needs bread, your tuna tartare is up: this is the life of the back of house at a restaurant. It’s not a bad way to spend the days, make your living, build your dreams, hang on to the dreams you have. Until management starts to get stingy and things get tighter and everyone gets nervous but you can count on your co-workers, we’re all in this...
    Plates in, plates out, glasses in, glasses out, we need ice, table four needs bread, your tuna tartare is up: this is the life of the back of house at a restaurant. It’s not a bad way to spend the days, make your living, build your dreams, hang on to the dreams you have. Until management starts to get stingy and things get tighter and everyone gets nervous but you can count on your co-workers, we’re all in this together, right? Right? Right?
  • Support by Elizabeth Irwin
    Cast: 
    7
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: domestic violence, intimate partner violence + 7 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: domestic violence, intimate partner violence, trauma, Recovery, domestic violence support group, support group, overcoming trauma, toxic masculinity subverted, women empowerment
    KC is the facilitator of a domestic violence support group who really wants to help with her empty resume and dearth of personal experience with intimate partner violence: it’s only a matter of time before someone in the group asks “is this really all we deserve?”
    Support follows the eight week journey of a group of survivors who all want to heal but are conflicted about how to make that happen with KC...
    KC is the facilitator of a domestic violence support group who really wants to help with her empty resume and dearth of personal experience with intimate partner violence: it’s only a matter of time before someone in the group asks “is this really all we deserve?”
    Support follows the eight week journey of a group of survivors who all want to heal but are conflicted about how to make that happen with KC at the helm and what healing really looks like anyway. They wrestle with the question of what survivors owe themselves and each other and if there really is a way to make ripples beyond their crappy donated conference room and good-hearted, inept facilitator.
  • Anything That Bleeds by Elizabeth Irwin
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: Central Massachusetts, true crime + 4 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: Central Massachusetts, true crime, female friendship, alcohol drugs and violence, Torture, suburban America
    In a small town in central Massachusetts, Dawn and her makeshift family figure out a way to get to the good life with things like heat and electric and dinner at Chili’s but you can’t hold a stash if you’ve got a snitch. A play about trust and torture. Inspired by a true story.
  • Like They Magical by Elizabeth Irwin
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama
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    Keyword: education, Segregation + 3 more
    Genre: drama
    Keyword: education, Segregation, justice, equality, public school
    Perla and Shalico are students at the high needs Collegiate High School in Brooklyn whose principal has decided to try to recruit some of the more privileged upper middle class students from the nearby neighborhood to help build the cultural capital of her students and increase their chances of success at college. Samish and John, two of the students being recruited, want to go on the school tour even though...
    Perla and Shalico are students at the high needs Collegiate High School in Brooklyn whose principal has decided to try to recruit some of the more privileged upper middle class students from the nearby neighborhood to help build the cultural capital of her students and increase their chances of success at college. Samish and John, two of the students being recruited, want to go on the school tour even though their parents are wary of how "safe" Collegiate really is. On this afternoon, though, its all in the kids hands, on both sides, to see if different worlds can work together.