Arika Larson

Arika Larson

Arika Larson is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Kansas. Her plays include THE SHES (Weasel Festival: Public Theater, semifinalist, Seven Devils), VISITING HOURS (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, finalist: Creede Rep Headwaters New Play Festival, semifinalist: Princess Grace Award, long list: Theatre 503), WITHIN TOLERANCE (HBMG winter playwright retreat, readings at...
Arika Larson is a Brooklyn-based playwright from Kansas. Her plays include THE SHES (Weasel Festival: Public Theater, semifinalist, Seven Devils), VISITING HOURS (O’Neill National Playwrights Conference, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, finalist: Creede Rep Headwaters New Play Festival, semifinalist: Princess Grace Award, long list: Theatre 503), WITHIN TOLERANCE (HBMG winter playwright retreat, readings at The Tank and Brooklyn College) BIRTHDAY BOY (Great Plains Theatre Conference, Semifinalist: O’Neill National Playwrights Conference). She works with AMiOS Theatre’s Shotz series and Reign or Shine’s Love Drunk Series. Her work has been produced or developed by Colt Coeur, Barrington Collective, Clutch Productions, and Three Act Theatre. She was named a finalist for SPACE on Ryder Farm’s Working Farm last year. She studied playwriting at Brooklyn College with Mac Wellman & Erin Courtney where she received the Rona Jaffe, Creative Writing and Himan Brown awards.

Plays

  • the shes by Arika Larson
    Cast: 
    4–6
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 1 more
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    Keyword: Sisters, pregnancy + 8 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, period
    Keyword: Sisters, pregnancy, periods, twins, generations, motherhood, utero, death, Sex, souls
    It’s Thursday or Friday night. Two sisters await one period. Spoiler alert: one of them is pregnant. With twins. Six women representing four generations collapse corporeal time—from in utero to beyond death—to celebrate sex and sisterhood, and to decide once and for all if souls exist.
  • visiting hours by Arika Larson
    Cast: 
    6–8
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    Genre: drama, experimental
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    Keyword: addiction, Mass Incarceration + 4 more
    Genre: drama, experimental
    Keyword: addiction, Mass Incarceration, Race, family, drug addiction, rape
    two families, one black and one white, travel across the state to visit a loved one serving a sentence in a medium security prison in rural Kansas. second in a cycle of three plays, visiting hours focuses on what it's like to love someone who is incarcerated. families are separated, messy relationships become messier, or sometimes just fade away, and the entirety of these relationships is packed into...
    two families, one black and one white, travel across the state to visit a loved one serving a sentence in a medium security prison in rural Kansas. second in a cycle of three plays, visiting hours focuses on what it's like to love someone who is incarcerated. families are separated, messy relationships become messier, or sometimes just fade away, and the entirety of these relationships is packed into weekend hours between 10am and 3pm.
  • within tolerance by Arika Larson
    Cast: 
    14
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    Genre: comedy, drama + 2 more
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    Keyword: model, fashion + 1 more
    Genre: comedy, drama, experimental, tragedy
    Keyword: model, fashion, female body
    new york city, the sixteenth floor, a fitting room. tape, scissors, pins, markers. thirteen women— designers, techs, accountants and entrepreneurs— cut and pin, struggle and strive, calculate and collaborate around one Fitting Model, just your average size 6 girl from the midwest. two hours out of a year in the life of a major fashion brand.
  • Birthday Boy by Arika Larson
    Cast: 
    5
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    Genre: drama, tragedy
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    Keyword: family, addiction + 2 more
    Genre: drama, tragedy
    Keyword: family, addiction, alcoholism, opioid crisis
    It is the coldest night of the year. It is also Kent Rose’s 21st birthday. His mother, his older sister, his stepfather, his girlfriend and the man who lives in the basement have gathered to celebrate his birthday, but he hasn’t yet arrived. Why is he late, and will he ever arrive? And how will his loved ones deal with once again asking these questions?