Strand Theater Co Presents MASHA! 9/10

MASHA! by Dan Kitrosser plays the Second Saturday Reading Series on Saturday, September 10 at 7pm

MASHA! is a poignant comedy about leaving, coming and staying home. Masha Kohner, a thirty-four year old Lebuvitch divorcee, spends her days tending to Yitta, her sometimes-delusional 98 year old great-grandmother, in their modest house in Monsey, New York. When Masha learns that she must have a double mastectomy due to an aggressive bout of breast cancer, she makes plans to go to Manhattan for the surgery to stay with her estranged lesbian sister, Yael. But Yael is no longer Yael. Yael is now Jerri and in the process of saving up money so that she too can have a mastectomy to become a him. MASHA! takes us from Monsey, to the East Village, even to Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, all in the hopes of finding wherever that may be.

About the playwright:
Dan Kitrosser is a playwright, performer and storyteller living in New York City. His plays and musicals include Tar Baby (Terra Nova Collective at P.S. 122), The Mumblings (Working Man's Clothes), Night of the Butterfly (45 Bleecker Theatre), Blizzard the Wizard (Urban Stages), On the Way to My Abortion (Ohio Theatre) and with Bekah Brunstetter and Chisa Hutchinson, Dan co-wrote A Grimm Reality (Bryant Park). He has had work developed through The Lark, Primary Stages, Working Man's Clothes and Rabbit Hole Ensemble. A recipient of a Brooklyn Arts Council Community Grant for 2010 and 2011, Dan is currently workshopping his adaptation of the Orpheus myth, entitled Don't Look Back which will tour community centers in Brooklyn in December, 2011. Dan is the resident storyteller for both Central and Bryant Park as well as the Artistic Director of the Writopia Lab Best Playwrights Festival, a festival of plays by playwrights ages 8-18. He teaches playwriting at Writopia Lab and is pursuing his MFA for playwriting at The New School for Drama.

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Baltimore, MD 21201

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