Colt Coeur Artist-in-Residence

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​New plays in development with Colt Coeur as Artist in Residence​ 

Lead Artist, Liba Vaynberg, in cohort under direction of Adrienne Campbell-Holt

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Eugene O'Neill National Playwriting Conference

& American Theater Magazine

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The Matriarchs by lead Artist, Liba Vaynberg featured in American Theater Magazine and developed at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwriting Conference (6 selections out 2000 submissions)

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Sold out presentations featuring Tony Nominee Emily Skeggs, Sarah Steele, and an electric cast at the O'Neill National Playwriting Conference under the direction of Obie-winning Artistic Director Melia Bensussen. 

 

Synopsis: Six squabbling teenage girls at a Talmud lesson negotiate snacks and sex and the Sabbath--and everything in between. Loosely based on the underwritten women of the Torah, The Matriarchs charts the journey of six friends as they grow up and our of the orthodoxy. This is a play about gods, mothers, and other creators. 

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Second Stage (LABA) Residency

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New play workshops and educational development with LABA Fellow (Theme: Humor)

Funding for Jewish dramatic readings and exploration with talkbacks and audience engagement

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Venue: 14STY as part of TIKKUN: Into the Night as well as independent reading series

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Round Table: World Premiere at 59E59

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Round Table at 59E59, co-produced with Fault Line Theater. 

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"Clever and captivating. One of a kind."

-Broadway World

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“Artfully directed and impeccably acted... Round Table is by turns hilarious, poetic, psychologically acute, and poignant without being sentimental. Should you be searching for superb theater, then your quest ends here.”

-Thinking Theater

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TDF interview with playwright Liba Vaynberg here:

"We tell stories precisely because we want to negotiate our relationship with fate."

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The Russian & The Jew: A Political Fairy Tale

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The Russian & The Jew at The Tank, co-produced with The Tank

Recipient of the COJECO BluePrint Fellowship

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Talkbacks featuring Gal Beckermann (When They Come for Us We'll Be Gone, winner of the Rohr Prize)

 

"The brainchild of actor/writers Emily Louise Perkins and Liba Vaynberg, this play is filled with all the romance, plot twists, and personal conflict that make up any great contemporary drama. Rotating back and forth between the late 1960s and occasionally 1992 after the collapse of the USSR, this play may be a period piece, but the themes that it deals with – from misogyny to anti-Semitic bigotry – are ones that are still very much relevant today, and thus is bound to be a very compelling drama that audiences for their 20s to their 80s are bound to be drawn into and appreciate."

-On Stage Blog

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Political Fairy Tales: Brooklyn Rail interview with the creators Emily Louise Perkins & Liba Vaynberg. 

 

X-ray Vision on Russian Jewry: feature and company interviews in the Jewish Week here.