New Plays Festival: Timmy
Campus Arts Event
New Plays Festival: Timmy
It’s the early 2010’s, and a multigenerational family stuck at home in the suburbs is on the verge of killing each other.
FREE
Lenfest Center for the Arts - The Flexible Performance Space
April 14, 2024 | 8:00 pm
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About the Festival

Columbia University School of the Arts presents an expanded festival of new plays written by Columbia MFA Playwriting Students. The esteemed faculty who have nurtured these students, including Tony, Pulitzer, and Obie Award winners such as James Ijames, Rebecca Taichman, Sarah DeLappe, Steve Martin, Will Eno, Karey Kirkpatrick and David Henry Hwang invite you to experience these innovative new playwrights.

Event Details

It’s the early 2010’s, and a multigenerational family stuck at home in the suburbs is on the verge of killing each other in this NSFW show. Alexa, the oldest daughter and an absolute nightmare, is hemorrhaging money funding her relationship with Timmy, a man she may or may not have met IRL.

Location

Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY

About The Performance

It’s the early 2010’s, and a multigenerational family stuck at home in the suburbs is on the verge of killing each other. Alexa, the oldest daughter and an absolute nightmare, is hemorrhaging money funding her relationship with Timmy, a man she may or may not have met IRL. This show is NSFW.

About the Playwright

Megan Rivkin is a playwright, sometimes director/producer, and a part-time diamond broker’s assistant from Lincolnshire, IL. She is currently developing a new musical with Caleb Martin-Rosenthal, Caleb Needs A Kidney. Recent credits include babybird (Providence Fringe), We’re Here (dir. Catalina Beltrán, Harrisburg Fringe), We’re Here (LakeHouseRanchDotPDF), Heard You Were Leaving (dir. Sam Gibbs, Columbia), The Circle (dir. Miguel Bregante, Columbia), and Outdoor Bird (dir. Lila Marooney, Northwestern). In addition, Megan produces outdoor, immersive, and audio projects through Wednesday Nights Company and recently assisted book-writer Jonathan Marc Sherman on The Connector at MCC. This play, like all plays, is dedicated to her late cat, Thomas.

For more information about this performance, please visit the event website.

Image: Lenfest Center for the Arts