Alicia Louzoun-Heisler

Alicia Louzoun-Heisler

Alicia a Maghrebi/Jewish Queer playwright who writes plays about relationships: the romantic, the platonic, and the mysterious kind you can't quite name. She loves flawed mothers, reclaimed queer villain-hood, and religious-fever-dream-esque magical realism. Her play BASHERT won the Goldberg New Play Prize, the Patty Abramson Play Prize, and was a semi-finalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She is a...
Alicia a Maghrebi/Jewish Queer playwright who writes plays about relationships: the romantic, the platonic, and the mysterious kind you can't quite name. She loves flawed mothers, reclaimed queer villain-hood, and religious-fever-dream-esque magical realism. Her play BASHERT won the Goldberg New Play Prize, the Patty Abramson Play Prize, and was a semi-finalist for Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theater LA’s New West Playwrights, and holds an MFA from NYU Tisch.

Plays

  • BASHERT by Alicia Louzoun-Heisler
    Recommendations: 1
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    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: adaptation, comedy + 4 more
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    Keyword: faith, Jewish + 4 more
    Genre: adaptation, comedy, dark comedy, drama, faith-based, romantic comedy
    Keyword: faith, Jewish, Orthodox Judaism, religion, love, matchmaking
    When rumors circulate within her tight-knit Haredi Jewish community, Leora fears she’ll receive “the bottom of the barrel” for potential marriage matches. In this Jane Austen-inspired Comedy, Leora is determined to prove that she'd make a great wife, but past indiscretions and old habits keep getting in the way.
  • HAPPY FOR YOUR LOSS by Alicia Louzoun-Heisler
    Cast: 
    4
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    Genre: comedy, dark comedy + 2 more
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    Keyword: Body image, plus-size actors + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, dark comedy, farce, satire
    Keyword: Body image, plus-size actors, Fat Shaming
    A Weight Watchers coach must navigate uncomfortable truths when pre-teen Lily shows up to a meeting and announces a new weight-loss secret that horrifies the whole group.
  • ON THE LINE: a radio play by Alicia Louzoun-Heisler
    Cast: 
    2
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    Genre: dark comedy, radio drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: sex work, phone call
    Genre: dark comedy, radio drama, satire
    Keyword: sex work, phone call
    Two phone sex operators discuss love, womanhood, and all the different kinds of role-playing they do (on and off the job).
  • The Gett by Alicia Louzoun-Heisler
    Cast: 
    7–8
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    Genre: horror, mystery/thriller
    Genre: horror, mystery/thriller
    As a massive storm of biblical proportions approaches Long Island, a bitter divorce, a strained friendship, and a prophetic dream come to a head. Shira wants out of her marriage but her husband won’t grant her a religious divorce. Her friend Nadine offers a solution that comes with a steep price. Meanwhile, their daughters, true-crime-obsessed Adi, and pious Dahlia, find themselves in the eye of the storm where...
    As a massive storm of biblical proportions approaches Long Island, a bitter divorce, a strained friendship, and a prophetic dream come to a head. Shira wants out of her marriage but her husband won’t grant her a religious divorce. Her friend Nadine offers a solution that comes with a steep price. Meanwhile, their daughters, true-crime-obsessed Adi, and pious Dahlia, find themselves in the eye of the storm where things aren’t what they seem.