Letters from the Grave by Sofia Tripoli
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Letters From the Grave by Sofia Tripoli
This is a family dramedy about two estranged siblings and their significant others coming home to prepare for their father's funeral. A few days before the service, a 75 year old Italian woman and her granddaughter show up at the house with an invitation from the deceased father. The father was a first generation Italian American immigrant and never told his children that he had family back in Italy. The play explores themes of the generational gap between 1st and 2nd generation immigrants and how even good-intentioned secrets can hurt a family.
Sofia Tripoli is an emerging playwright from Greenville, South Carolina. As a recent BA Graduate from Sewanee: The University of the South, she received the Tennessee Williams Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. She attended the 2026 Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a member of their Playwriting cohort, studying under Nathan Alan Davis and Brittany K. Allen. Additionally, she was chosen for the 2023 Young Southern Writers Program at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She has found herself drawn to nonverbal storytelling as a central convention in her work, often crafting scenes driven more by physical action and subtext than by dialogue.
This is a family dramedy about two estranged siblings and their significant others coming home to prepare for their father's funeral. A few days before the service, a 75 year old Italian woman and her granddaughter show up at the house with an invitation from the deceased father. The father was a first generation Italian American immigrant and never told his children that he had family back in Italy. The play explores themes of the generational gap between 1st and 2nd generation immigrants and how even good-intentioned secrets can hurt a family.
Sofia Tripoli is an emerging playwright from Greenville, South Carolina. As a recent BA Graduate from Sewanee: The University of the South, she received the Tennessee Williams Award for Excellence in Creative Writing. She attended the 2026 Sewanee Writers’ Conference as a member of their Playwriting cohort, studying under Nathan Alan Davis and Brittany K. Allen. Additionally, she was chosen for the 2023 Young Southern Writers Program at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. She has found herself drawn to nonverbal storytelling as a central convention in her work, often crafting scenes driven more by physical action and subtext than by dialogue.
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Where is it happening?
John D Calandra Italian American Institute, Cuny School of Labor and Urban Studies, 25 W 43rd St, New York, NY 10036, United States, Manhattan
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Host or PublisherKairos Italy Theater
