See A Play Club
A companion to the Difficult Women Scene Study class and inspired by the June 2025 town hall at Playwrights Horizons, See A Play Club is a new way to champion contemporary female playwrights and directors—together.
We’ll pick one play just about every month by a contemporary woman playwright and helmed by a woman director. We’ll go see it as a group, then grab drinks nearby to talk about what we saw, what we felt, and what stuck with us.
It’s casual. It’s social. It’s free to join.
Just buy your own ticket. We’ll handle the rest.
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Let’s see great plays. Let’s talk about them. Let’s support bold new work.
SEE A PLAY CLUB
Join us on January 17 at 4:00 PM at MITU580
🎟️ HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Buy your own ticket and show up! Use code partner for $10 tickets. Grab tix here 👉 https://utrfest.org/program/2021/
🍸 Drinks after!
WHY WE'RE DOING THIS:
When this year’s seasons dropped with few to no women in the lineup, over 200 of us showed up at Playwrights Horizons to demand answers—and got none. So, we’re creating our own space. SEE A PLAY CLUB is our way of celebrating and supporting the women writing and directing today.
Come for the play. Stay for the community. 💥
ABOUT 2021
Under the glow of a flickering screen, a daughter reconstructs her deceased father. Pixel by pixel, contradiction by contradiction.
2021 is a live performance where theatre, AI, and video-game storytelling converge, blurring the boundary between human remembrance and machine logic. An audience member steps into the role of Brian, an unhoused veteran reliving his final weeks inside a looping digital hospital: a labyrinth of corridors, bureaucratic dead ends, and fleeting human contact. Guided by his daughter’s narration, fragments of data become playable memory. Each decision glitches reality a little more.
How do we provide dignity in death to those we fundamentally disagree with? Part elegy, part experiment, 2021 exposes the tenderness and terror of digital resurrection. It asks not whether machines can think, but whether memory itself is a kind of simulation.
Note: 2021 includes flashing lights, audience participation, violence, crude language, references to war, racism, and sexism. Participation and active spectatorship is a central part of 2021.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Cole Lewis (she/her) is a mom and mad theatre artist from St. Catharines, Ontario. She specializes in creating live performance from design ideas, exploring new modes of storytelling, and fusing technologies to the stage. Her practice includes directing, playwriting, and the design of moving image works. Twice nominated for Dora-Awards, Cole’s practice uses humour, design, and technology to explore notions of class and violence, expose questions of bias, and unsettle standard conceptions of ‘truth’ to explore alternative futures. She has an MFA in Directing from Yale and her thoughts on performance have been shared at LMDA, Howlround, FOLDA, Yale CCAM, and Canadian Theatre Review.
jaclyn.biskup@gmail.com questions! ALL ARE WELCOME.