About The Event
It’s Shabbas. And six squabbling teenage girls at a weekly Talmud lesson negotiate snacks, sex, their souls and everything in between.
Loosely based on the underwritten women of the Torah, THE MATRIARCHS by Liba Vaynberg charts the journey of six friends as they grow up and out of the orthodoxy. This is a play about girls, gods, mothers, and other creators: for anyone and everyone who doesn’t always know what to believe in.
Written by: Liba Vaynberg
Directed by: Dina Vovsi
Performed by: Rachel Botchan, Molly Carden, Helen Cespedes, Rebecca S’manga Frank, Arielle Goldman, Anna O’Donoghue, and Frankie Placidi.
Stage Managed by: Sara Minisquero
Produced by: Anna & Kitty Inc
Image by: Liana Finck
About The Organizer
Liba Vaynberg is a first generation American playwright, screenwriter, and actor. The daughter of Ukrainian and Azeri Jewish refugees, she is bilingual in English and Russian. She studied Molecular Biology at Yale before receiving her MFA at Columbia. She is currently part of the IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab and wrote for Star City (Sony/AppleTV+), a Cold War thriller that follows an alternative history of the space race.
Liba’s recent play The Matriarchs which was selected for and developed at the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and developed with the Civilians R&D group. It was also a Princess Grace Finalist, Blackburn Nominee, Theater J Abramson Finalist (Top 3), Blue Ink Award Finalist, Jewish Plays Project and Premiere-Stages Semi-Finalist. Her play, The Gett, was the inaugural commission at Rattlestick with CBE, a Princess Grace Semi-Finalist, Colorado New Play Festival Selection, and reprised as part of Theater Ariel’s Salon Series. Round Table premiered at 59E59 (Times Square Chronicles 10 Best Plays of 2019, Gary Marshall Theater New Works Semi-Finalist 2018) and was reprised at Tierra Del Sol. www.libavaynberg.com
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