I have been honored with a play commission from the Lucille Lortel Theatre’s Alcove New Play Development Program. Over the course of the next year I will be reworking, revising, blowing up and starting again my play Here Rests the Heart.

The Alcove is run by the Lucille Lortel’s Artistic Director for New Play Development, Caridad Svich. In its 4th year of commissioning new plays, this program has supported dozens of playwrights. Click here to read about the group of writers selected alongside me.

Here Rests the Heart was inspired by several things: dating back to 2012, I took several trips to Poland, exploring both the theater and the country itself. I became enamored with Warsaw, Wroclaw, and Krakow and heartbroken by Auschwitz and the complicated relationships the Polish people have with their history. Prompted by these trips I began to explore my own Polish history and on one trip in particular I was able to connect with my Polish cousin, Magda, who shared with me some genealogy research she had done. This play, set in the context of the current political climates of Poland and the U.S.A., is my attempt to reconcile my present with my past while trying to find the place art occupies in times when society seems to be struggling for its essential survival.

If this play interests you and you want to support it and/or my work in general, feel free to contact me.