Plays written by Y York:
NOTHING BUT NET
LATE IN THE GAME
THROUGH THE EYES OF HOLLY GERMAINE
SYCORAX
SOMEBODY ELSE’S HOI POLLOI
LITTLE THUMBELINA
BECOMING AWESOME
Synopses:
Nothing But Net (2M; 2W) – A closeted professional basketball player discovers the extent of the harm caused by a secret he doesn’t even want to keep.
Late in the Game (2M; 2W) – Dying is no excuse for not living in this New York comedy of middle-aged love and marriage and crime.
Through the Eyes of Holly Germaine (2M; 2W) – An oil spill on the Canary Islands just as Chernobyl is melting down bring new and old lovers together. Holly gets to rescue the puppy.
Sycorax (1W) Sycorax pleads for her revenge on a heartless Prospero to Gods who are actually listening.
Somebody Else’s Hoi Polloi (1M; 3W) – During a drought on a suburban street in Southern California, a homeless women disrupts the status quo.
Little Thumbelina (with Doubling, 5 or 6) – Not the original story of a tiny queen seeking her tiny king; this adaptation is a tiny little girl seeking to find her mother.
Becoming Awesome – (5W, two of whom are children) After a fire at a neighborhood housing project, Hannah, a middle-aged textbook author, finds her isolated life discombobulated when she inadvertently becomes a foster-parent to eight-year-old Sophia.
Bio:
Y is the recipient of the Smith Prize for political theatre from the NNPN, the Hawai`i Award for Literature, Berilla Kerr Playwriting Award, five-time awardee of the distinguished play award from AATE, member of The Dramatists’ Guild and proud alumna of New Dramatists. Her more than 50 plays have been produced across America, as well as Canada and Australia. She has taught playwriting for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, New Harmony Project, Kumu Kahua Theatre, Last Frontier Theatre Conference, Arizona State University, People’s Light and Theatre, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Freehold Theatre School, the University of Washington Extension, and in her living room. She was the 2019 University of Hawai`i Distinguished Writer in Residence and still lives with Mark Lutwak and their dog, Maggie Little. Y spent the Pandemic years creating the Lady Who… monodrama series, available to watch here.
* Please note that the following titles are handled by Dramatic Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing. Please ask if you don’t see a particular play.
Licensed by Dramatic Publishing: Accidental Friends; Afternoon of the Elves; Crash; Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Fly; Eggs; The Forgiving Harvest; Fork in the Road; Nothing is the Same; The Othello; the Portrait, the Wind, the Chair; River Rat and Cat; Stargirl; Fork in the Road; The Final Testimony of Henry Samson; Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Fly: Ten plays for children and families.
Licensed by Broadway Play Publishing: The Impossibility of Now; …and LA is Burning; Bleachers in the Sun; Framed; Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants.; Woof; Plays by Y York, Vol. I (the Secret wife; Gerald’s Good Idea; The Snowflake Avalanche); Plays by Y York, Vol. II (The Game of Light; Krisit; Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants.); Life Gap (Facing Forward).