The Alcove at the Lortel presents…
YELLOW WALLPAPER 2.0 2020
by Jennifer Maisel
Directed by Jackson Gay
Cast: Amelia Workman and Arye Gross
Stage Directions: Neil Levi
A riff on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic domestic horror story about a woman driven crazy by the rest cure for post-partum depression, YELLOW WALLPAPER 2.0 2020 is about a female adjunct professor trying to thrive in Covid quarantine despite her toddler and demanding husband outside her bedroom and the personal demons she faces within.
About the Playwright
Jennifer Maisel
Jennifer Maisel’s Eight Nights, The Last Seder, Out Of Orbit, There Or Here and @thespeedofJake have been produced nationally and internationally. The Last Seder premiered off-Broadway with Gaby Hoffmann and Greg Mullavey and the critically acclaimed Eight Nights was nominated for nine Ovation Awards, winning for Best Playwriting and Actress. Honored by PEN West, The Kennedy Center, EST’s Sloan, the Woodward/Newman Award for Drama and The Kilroy List, Jennifer was one of seven playwrights commissioned by CTG and Playwrights’ Arena to create The Hotel Play; she was invited into the Humanitas PlayLA workshop, where she wrote Better, and the Travis Bogard Residency at Eugene O’Neill’s Tao House, where she wrote Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 2020, commissioned by The Alcove at the Lortel. She also writes for film and television. JenniferMaisel.com.
About the Director
Jackson Gay
Recent work: Into the Breeches by George Brant (Gulfshore Playhouse); Natural History by Collin Van Son (O’Neill Festival); Christina Anderson’s the ripple, the wave that carried me home (world premiere co-production Berkeley Rep and Goodman Theatre); New musical workshop Hard Road (book by Willy Holtzman, music by Marty Dodson and David Spangler); Partnership (Mint Theater); New Neighborhood’s Endless Loop of Gratitude www.newneighborhood.net (New Ohio’s Ice Factory); Lucy Thurber’s Transfers for Audible, MCC, and New York Stage & Film; These Paper Bullets! by Rolin Jones with music by Billie Joe Armstrong (New Neighborhood, Atlantic, Geffen, Yale Rep). MFA Directing Yale School of Drama. www.jacksongracegay.com