THE AMAZON

An Irons in the Fire Project

November 21, 2025 @ 6:00pm
Theatre Row, Studio Theatre

By Alex Lin
Directed by Aaron Rossini

Synopsis

Joanie "THE AMAZON" Welcher is a disgraced pro-wrestling champ who's stuck flipping pancakes at Waffle House. Allison is a computer geek with little upper body strength who wants to start fighting. When credit card debt and a local amateur wrestling championship in South Florida make the unlikely pair of trainer and trainee, both women must fight tooth and nail to come out on top—or pay the consequences. THE AMAZON is a play of people living and surviving in femme bodies and our longings for, performance of, and limits of strength.

Playwright

ALEX LIN (she/her) is just a girl from Jersey. Lin is a second-year playwright in Juilliard’s Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program. Lin’s plays have been developed at Roundabout, Second Stage Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Manhattan Theatre Club, Rattlestick, the O’Neill, Two River, South Coast Repertory, Ojai, Cape Cod Theatre Project, Playwrights Realm, Central Square Theater, and Theater Mu. She has been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Rutgers University, and Union College. As an actor, Lin has appeared at the Actors Theatre of Louisville (The Wolves), New Victory (In the Land of Mauve and Gold), Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival (Julius Caesar, The Cherry Tortured), Ma-Yi (The House of Billy Paul), NYTW (Zionista Rising), Commonwealth Shakespeare (Henry VI Part III, Richard III), Amphibian Stage, Ojai, and Cape Cod Theatre Project (barren). She was last seen in an industry workshop of a new musical about Wu Zetian, the only female emperor of China, playing the titular role. Lin is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation Commission, Manhattan Theatre Club Sloan Initiative, and the Working Theater inaugural playwright residency. Lin is a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize finalist, Weissberger Award nominee, BMI Book Writing Fellow, and Colt Coeur Resident Artist.

Director

AARON ROSSINI (he/him) is Producing Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Fault Line Theatre. He has a B.F.A. from Miami University of Ohio and an M.F.A. from the Brown University/Trinity Rep Graduate Program. Aaron produces, directs, teaches, and acts. Fault Line Theatre: the beautiful land i seek (la linda tierra que busco yo), Hindsight, Round Table, The Oregon Trail, The Wedge Horse, At the Table, Breathing Time, The Faire, From White Plains (winner, 2013 Glaad Award for best off-Broadway play; NYIT Awards Nomination Best New Play), From the Same Cloth, Frogs (NYIT Awards Nomination Best Revival of a Play and Best Director), Doctor Faustus, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “(plays) In Previews.”, and “Irons in the Fire”.

Poster Sketch by Sean Devare