About the New Plays 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 Leslie Ayvazian, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, Charles Mee, and Rogelio Martinez, invite you to experience these innovative new playwrights.
About the Playwright
Luz Lorenzana Twigg is a Filipinx American playwright, poet, and dramaturg. Her writing explores diasporic identity, ritual, ancestral healing, and theatre as a living archive. She is a third-year MFA student in Playwriting from Columbia University where she studies under David Henry Hwang and Lynn Nottage.
Location
Lenfest Center for the Arts
615 W 129th St
New York, NY
About The Performance
Employees in a small-town coffee shop are overjoyed when they win their majority to unionize. However, their plans are thwarted as a historic wildfire sweeps up the California coast and threatens to burn down everything they care about most. Set in idyllic Santa Barbara, the play takes a tender, charismatic look at the complex stratification of service work and interrogates the myth of the service industry “family”.
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Image: Lenfest Center for the Arts