Anna Ouyang Moench is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again (La Jolla Playhouse), Man of God (Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown), Mothers (The Playwrights Realm), Birds of North America, and Sin Eaters. She is a former Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, Van Lier fellow at the Lark, and Page One fellow at the Playwrights Realm, and her awards include the 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award, the Gerbode Special Award in the Arts, the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, and the NYFA Award in Playwriting. Anna is a two time Emmy nominee for her work on Apple TV's Severance and Netflix's Beef, and she is currently showrunning Amazon Prime's Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
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December 11 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm CST
December 25 - December 31
Eddie is fresh out of Juilliard, and he’s ready to make his mark on the American Theater. But first, a quick stint at your local theater for a production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” to keep his health insurance. As the years pass, Eddie finds himself back at your local theater, over and over and over again. Much remains the same: the play, the stage manager, the green room—though Eddie’s in different costumes as he ages through the play’s male roles over the course of his career. A love letter to actors, artists, and dreamers of all professions who make sacrifices large and small in service of their work…and ultimately wonder whether it was worth it.
The actors in my life, and their dedication to this art form despite its challenges, inspired this play. It explores the universal tension between work and self through the specific world of regional theater. Work can give us meaning and joy, but it takes something in return.
Anna Ouyang Moench
