My Life With Ed Sheeran, Popstar or Keep Your Fist Outta My Cunt

We’re supposed to love each other and be good good good.
How dare we be anything else.
Ugly and complicated and powerful and magnificent.

We know who we are.

Has sisterly solidarity has been reduced to catchphrases on tea bags, self-love in your favorite influencer’s favorite mascara?
What do you do when the revolution has been commodified?
When authenticity is a two chord love song strummed by a ginger haired honeybee?

Zizi Majid (co-writer) is a playwright whose plays advocate for a shared humanity. Plays: BEING IN TIME (International Human Rights Arts Festival, NYC), RETURN TO FALL, ZULFIQAR (Semi-finalist, Red Bull Theatre Short New Play Festival, NYC), HOW DID THE CAT GET SO FAT? (nominated Best Play, Life! Theatre Awards); YUSOF (The Esplanade, Singapore). Upcoming: HOW TO GILD AN EAGLE (Signature Theatre, NYC). Young Artist Award (National Arts Council, Singapore). Columbia MFA Playwriting candidate (2020). Member: Cut Edge Experimental Theatre Collective 2020, NYC.

Jen Pitt (director) is a Brazilian-American director. She has been living in New York for the past few years where she has worked as an ensemble member The Living Theatre and as a freelance director and writer; mainly writing for BUST Magazine. She is currently in her third year of the MFA Theatre Directing program at Columbia University. This summer she worked at the National Theatre of Croatia as an assistant director for their productions of “Elektra” and“Carmen”.

Kate Pressman (co-writer) is a 2020 Playwriting MFA candidate at Columbia University. Most recently Kate’s play Twenty-Six Seconds received a studio presentation at the Park Avenue Armory as part of the Culture in a Changing America Symposium in February 2019. Her other full-length plays have been read at New Georges, Red Fern Theatre Company, The Kraine Theatre, The Access Theatre and Play on Words. Her short plays have been performed in New York City and regionally. In addition to playwriting Kate has worked as a stage manager, dramaturg, designer, and assistant director.

photo by Alessandra Rodriguez-Majchrzyk

In the Belly

What secures a story a position in our shared cultural knowledge? How long do those stories last? How long do banana peels last in landfills? Are we drowning in a tidal wave of our own making? ‘In the Belly’ is a portion of a longer work in progress titled: ‘Is Bananas’ that seeks to investigate the sustainability of our modern life, as well as the sustainability of our shared ideas.

Madison L. Ritter is a NYC based playwright, director, and performer. She has written for Rule of 7X7 at The Tank; written and performed with The LIDA project. She is interested in plays about people, science, and magic.