Y York

Y York

Y York is the recipient of the 2008 Smith Prize for …and LA is Burning; Houston’s 2012 Buzzy Award, Best New Play for Woof; the Berrilla Kerr Award for the Secret wife; the Hawai`i Award for Literature for Nothing is the Same; five times from the AATE Distinguished Play Award, and the Charlotte Chorpenning Award for her body of work for children and their families. New plays premiered last spring in Seattle...
Y York is the recipient of the 2008 Smith Prize for …and LA is Burning; Houston’s 2012 Buzzy Award, Best New Play for Woof; the Berrilla Kerr Award for the Secret wife; the Hawai`i Award for Literature for Nothing is the Same; five times from the AATE Distinguished Play Award, and the Charlotte Chorpenning Award for her body of work for children and their families. New plays premiered last spring in Seattle and Malvern, PA, and will premiere next season in Omaha. Used plays can be found at Broadway Play Publishing or Dramatic Publishing. Plays have been supported by the NEA, the Rockefeller Foundation, AT and T OnStage, USA Artists, and many local arts organizations through the years. For three decades Y has been writing plays- their current number astonishes even her. Most of the plays have been produced and between twenty and thirty are published. She still lives with Mark Lutwak to whom most things are still dedicated. They have two dogs and recently relocated to the Pacific Northwest.

Plays

  • Through the Eyes of Holly Germaine by Y York
    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy, drama
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    Keyword: secrets, love + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama
    Keyword: secrets, love, environment

    THROUGH THE EYES OF HOLLY GERMAINE by Y York

    Developed and workshopped as a part of the Seattle Repertory Theatre's Writers' Group in 2016.

    June, 2016 workshop directed by Mark Lutwak with: Amy Thone, Hans Altwies, Scott Koh, and Hayley Clark.

    It's 1986. On a volcanic island off the Northwest coast of Africa, Simon and Edwina- oil spill...

    THROUGH THE EYES OF HOLLY GERMAINE by Y York

    Developed and workshopped as a part of the Seattle Repertory Theatre's Writers' Group in 2016.

    June, 2016 workshop directed by Mark Lutwak with: Amy Thone, Hans Altwies, Scott Koh, and Hayley Clark.

    It's 1986. On a volcanic island off the Northwest coast of Africa, Simon and Edwina- oil spill remediators- are on a vacation interrupted by an upside down oil tanker. American Holly Germaine is hiding from Hollywood reporters in what is proving to be a too-successful hiding place. Tyler has come to help remediate the oil and reignite the flame he once lit in Edwina, but he keeps running into Holly instead. Simon sees all but is reluctant to rock the tanker that is his marriage. And the seagull just wanted another breath of air while the puppy wants the other half of the croissant. When it's hopeless, you might as well try harder.
  • Late in the Game by Y York
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Melissa is reckless because she’s going to die anyway. Flo is worried that husband Tim is going to run off with his young secretary. Tim just wants to lose ten pounds and get a good night's sleep. Harvey thinks that all women are interchangeable until he meets the one who isn’t. Dying is no excuse for not living in this New York comedy of middle-aged love and marriage and crime.
  • The Impossibility of Now by Y York
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    Cast: 
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    Genre: comedy
    Genre: comedy
    Before the accident, Carl was a very successful science writer. With his ever-expanding knowledge of the world came an expanding darkness and futility. Unbeknownst to everyone, including Miranda, Carl started planning his exit. The exit strategy chilled the marriage and Miranda began an exit strategy of her own, one that included Anthony, a former college baseball star and current sexy pediatric dentist....
    Before the accident, Carl was a very successful science writer. With his ever-expanding knowledge of the world came an expanding darkness and futility. Unbeknownst to everyone, including Miranda, Carl started planning his exit. The exit strategy chilled the marriage and Miranda began an exit strategy of her own, one that included Anthony, a former college baseball star and current sexy pediatric dentist. Anthony is attracted to Miranda primarily because she is so different from his ex who wouldn’t know a lyric poem from a limerick. All participants’ plans are kyboshed by Carl’s accident, but his reawakening brings with it a wholesale batch of new complications, not the least of which is his new demeanor: optimistic happy person.