Agnes Borinsky

Agnes Borinsky

Agnes Borinsky is a writer and performer, originally from Baltimore, currently living in Los Angeles. Recent projects include A Song of Songs (The Bushwick Starr & El Puente), Ding Dong It's the Ocean (Rady&Bloom), Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 (i am a slow tide), Weird Classrooms (University Settlement), and Of Government (Clubbed Thumb). Brief Chronicle is out from 3 Hole Press, and Sasha Masha, her...
Agnes Borinsky is a writer and performer, originally from Baltimore, currently living in Los Angeles. Recent projects include A Song of Songs (The Bushwick Starr & El Puente), Ding Dong It's the Ocean (Rady&Bloom), Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8 (i am a slow tide), Weird Classrooms (University Settlement), and Of Government (Clubbed Thumb). Brief Chronicle is out from 3 Hole Press, and Sasha Masha, her young adult novel, came out in 2021. She is an alumna of Brooklyn College's playwriting MFA and the Los Angeles Permaculture Academy.

Plays

  • Ding Dong It's the Ocean
    An arts collective gathers to celebrate their director's birthday. With Moscow Mules and assorted belongings they sprawl freely in all manners across the floor. As the night unfolds, the play that they are building – about our planet's ailing oceans -- pervades every conversation, until the party guests find they are performing it.

    Conceived by Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady
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    An arts collective gathers to celebrate their director's birthday. With Moscow Mules and assorted belongings they sprawl freely in all manners across the floor. As the night unfolds, the play that they are building – about our planet's ailing oceans -- pervades every conversation, until the party guests find they are performing it.

    Conceived by Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady
    Original Text by Agnes Borinsky
    Original Music by Joe White
  • Brief Chronicle, Books 6-8
    A history play (c. 2014) that grounds epic themes—longing, violence and imperialism, and the bond between mother and son—in the quiet ways we talk.
  • The Witches
    One bikes back and forth across the bridges. One negotiates with a goldfish. One examines a friendship. One is in love with a kettle. One burns the city down.

    A fugue for five voices.
  • Of Government
    The adventures of Barb the Teacher, Deb the Seeker, Heidi the Helper, Tawny the Addict and a host of others. With songs! Presented by Miss Marjorie Blain, her students, and members of the community. Light refreshments will be provided.