PIVOT by Alex Lubischer

PIVOT by Alex Lubischer

Kara knows what she wants: a giant wedding reception, a father-daughter dance to the Dixie Chicks, and a solid three-year crop rotation plan for the farm. But when her wedding plans blow up in her face, Kara is prepared to upend the entire town of Milton, Nebraska, to fight for the future that should have been hers. A play about tradition, change, and things you should never, ever say to your in-laws.

Join us on October 30th for a staged reading of Pivot. (South Coast Repertory Elizabeth George Commission | Great Plains Theatre Commons: New Play Conference 2024)

Doors open at 7pm. Performance begins at 7:30pm. Bramble's bar will be open for refreshments.

DIRECTOR

Dan Washelesky

CAST

Ashley Neal as KARA

John Drea as LEVI

Matthew Lunt as DOUG

To Be Announced - GEORGE

To Be Announced - ANNE

Alex Lubischer is a queer Midwestern writer, born and raised on a farm in Nebraska. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from Yale. He lives by the lake in Chicago with his dog.

Current screenwriting projects include Big Dave, an hour-long TV pilot co-conceived with Danilo Gambini—Hyperobject Industries is attached to produce—and an original coming-of-age thriller, Evildoers.

His plays include Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout Theatre Company, Steep Theatre, Jeff Award Winner: Outstanding New Play), You Deserve to Be Here (Goodman Playwrights Unit commission; Roundabout Theatre Laura Pels commission, The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting - Longlist), Pivot (Yale School of Drama, GPTC New Play Conference 2024), Weird Kids (Haven Chicago), Do Wasps Have Desires? (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), The Quonsets (Yale Cabaret, co-written with Majkin Holmquist), and Survey No. 5 (House of International Theatre, Copenhagen).

Lubischer was the 2017/18 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence at Roundabout Theatre Company. He has developed new work at Playwrights Horizons, Atlantic Theater Company, Page 73, The Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Victory Gardens Theater, First Floor Theater, The Understudy, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. He has been a semifinalist for the P73 Playwriting Fellowship and a three-time finalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.

He teaches playwriting at DePaul University and Bramble Theatre Company in Chicago.

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