Mya Ison

Mya Ison (she/her) is an actor/playwright currently studying as a second-year MFA Playwriting candidate at Hunter College! Her plays are a relentless search for Black voices in the places where they’ve been erased: in the ordinary, in the future, and in the archive. Select Playwriting credits: I'm A Really Good Swimmer (Hunter Reading/Dir. Taylor Reynolds), crawlspace (Reading/Residency at The Cell 2026, Workshop @ The Flea 2024), Fruit Fly (O'Neill Semi-Finalist, 2026, Liberation Theatre Company Reading/Residency ‘24-25), Laure (Workshop @ NYTW & The Tank 2023, BAPF Finalist 2023, O’Neill New Playwrights’ Conference Finalist 2024). BFA, Boston University. Learn more at myaison.com!

Mya Ison (she/her) is an actor/playwright currently studying as a second-year MFA Playwriting candidate at Hunter College! Her plays are a relentless search for Black voices in the places where they’ve been erased: in the ordinary, in the future, and in the archive. Select Playwriting credits: I'm A Really Good Swimmer (Hunter Reading/Dir. Taylor Reynolds), crawlspace (Reading/Residency at The Cell 2026, Workshop @ The Flea 2024), Fruit Fly (O'Neill Semi-Finalist, 2026, Liberation Theatre Company Reading/Residency ‘24-25), Laure (Workshop @ NYTW & The Tank 2023, BAPF Finalist 2023, O’Neill New Playwrights’ Conference Finalist 2024). BFA, Boston University. Learn more at myaison.com!

Scripts

Fruit Fly

by Mya Ison

Cast Size
4
Genre
docudrama/historic,
drama

In this tale of two lonely people from across time who share the same pain and Alma Mater, Robby --a lost queer freshman at Harvard-- creates an intrinsic bond with his roommate of sorts, Dorothy Dean--the oft-forgotten Black 1960’s socialite who was a member of Andy Warhol’s "Factory"-- in an effort to learn from her experience as a student at Radcliffe/Harvard in the 1950's. As Dorothy and Robby find common...

In this tale of two lonely people from across time who share the same pain and Alma Mater, Robby --a lost queer freshman at Harvard-- creates an intrinsic bond with his roommate of sorts, Dorothy Dean--the oft-forgotten Black 1960’s socialite who was a member of Andy Warhol’s "Factory"-- in an effort to learn from her experience as a student at Radcliffe/Harvard in the 1950's. As Dorothy and Robby find common ground and form a painful yet important bond, Robby starts to blossom in new friendships and romances outside of his dorm room, only to discover that Dorothy's methods of survival may destroy him before they save him.

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crawlspace

by Mya Ison

Cast Size
4
Genre
comedy,
drama,
experimental

Crawlspace centers Jamie, a Black queer writer navigating her early 20s and her long-term relationship with Dana. Jamie is nannying the 9-year-old daughter of a writer she deeply admires. Things go awry as Jaime makes life-altering decisions that affect her selfhood, relationships and career. Peek into Jaime’s crawlspace where her darkest thoughts, memories, and fantasies collide to create the writer she is...

Crawlspace centers Jamie, a Black queer writer navigating her early 20s and her long-term relationship with Dana. Jamie is nannying the 9-year-old daughter of a writer she deeply admires. Things go awry as Jaime makes life-altering decisions that affect her selfhood, relationships and career. Peek into Jaime’s crawlspace where her darkest thoughts, memories, and fantasies collide to create the writer she is afraid to become.

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Laure

by Mya Ison

1
Cast Size
4
Genre
adaptation,
experimental,
fantasy,
period

Laure is a play in response to the painting “Olympia” by Manet (1865), imagining that the Black model, Laure, was not erased from the archive. By adapting themes from the “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde (1890), this play creates a three-dimensional world through its
four characters, and engages with agency, gaze, and the power of the erotic.

Laure is a play in response to the painting “Olympia” by Manet (1865), imagining that the Black model, Laure, was not erased from the archive. By adapting themes from the “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde (1890), this play creates a three-dimensional world through its
four characters, and engages with agency, gaze, and the power of the erotic.