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...to the website of Paula Cizmar, an award-winning playwright whose work often combines poetry and politics to get at the heart of a matter. Her plays have been produced all over the world. Here you'll find information about upcoming performances, past productions, and new plays, plus news and reviews, photos, and thoughts, always changing, always growing.
Playwrights, Poetry, Politics, Drama, Comedy, Whatever It Takes
The Flynn has teamed up with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize to create a project that will start a conversation about where we are in the world right now. Is democracy okay? Or just hanging on by a thread? These are the playwrights whose short plays and monologues will start some of the dialogue–and I’m…
Women+ On the Edge of Democracy
Coming soon, fall 2026. It’s an anthology. A marathon performance. And a nationwide theatre action. I’m so honored to be one of the playwrights commissioned to write a short play for Women+ On the Edge of Democracy. It’s designed to be a “Collective Portrait of a Nation in Doubt and Transformation,” which is very telling.…
Antigone X in Texas
The timeless story, a single person, seemingly powerless, facing an unjust law. Will she stand up for what is right? Will anyone join her? This contemporary update of Sophocles’ play puts its namesake Antigone front and center, rather than Creon (as in the original). Ismene becomes Esme, and reminds us she is still here. Still…
ideas and issues
and thoughts about life, justice, culture, and the way we can all try to make a better world. that's the goal. keep on keeping on.