A small town. A once in a century storm. Three women gather to make sandwiches for neighbors who’ve been displaced from their homes by floods. As they contend with the damage of the storm, they learn what brings them together threatens to tear them apart. Is their friendship strong enough to make it through the night?
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Meet the Playwright
Miranda Rose Hall
Miranda Rose Hall (she/her) is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. She previously appeared in Playfest with The Hour of Great Mercy (2017)
Her plays include A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (finalist for the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, commissioned by LubDub Theatre Co), Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Drama), The Kind Ones, and Menstruation: A Period Piece. She has written for television on Alaska Daily (ABC) and American Rust (Amazon Prime). She has worked in development with A24, FX, Middle Child Productions, and Emmy Rossum’s Composition8.
A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction is currently touring internationally as part of the Sustainable Theatre project created by British director Katie Mitchell, French choreographer Jérôme Bel, and Théâtre Vidy in Lausanne, Switzerland. It has traveled to Théâtre Vidy, Piccolo Teatro in Milan, Dramaten in Stockholm, the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb, Théâtre de Liège, and the National Performing Arts Center in Taipei among other venues. It toured in the UK in spring and summer 2023, produced by Headlong Theatre, beginning at the Barbican in London, and traveling to Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, Shakespeare North in Prescot, New Vic in Newcastle, and Theatre Royal in Plymouth.
Miranda’s work has been produced by theaters including LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater in New York, Baltimore Center Stage, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, and Centaur Theatre in Montreal. She has written commissioned works for Yale Repertory Theater, Playwrights Horizons Soundstage, Baltimore Center Stage, Concord Theatricals, and LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater as a Berwin Lee New York London Commissioned Playwright. In 2020, she was honored with a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award.
In addition to writing, Miranda is a founding member and artistic leader of LubDub Theatre Co, based in New York.
She has taught writing and literature courses at Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, and Macalester College. Her essays about theater have been published by 3Views on Theatre and HowlRound.
Miranda grew up in Baltimore, MD. She graduated with her BA from Georgetown University and her MFA from the Yale School of Drama.
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