Untitled Play About Times Beach

An Irons in the Fire Project

By Liza Birkenmeier

Playwright

LIZA BIRKENMEIER (she/her) is the author of Grief Hotel, which premiered in Summerworks at Clubbed Thumb in 2023, and was remounted at The Public Theater in 2024, directed by Tara Ahmadinejad. (Obie Award, Drama League Nomination for Outstanding Production of a Play.) She was the 2019-2020 Tow Playwright-in-Residence at Ars Nova where her plaDr. Ride’s American Beach House premiered, directed by Katie Brook. (Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Drama, New York Times Critics Pick.) F*ck7thGrade, a musical collaboration with Jill Sobule, premiered at the Wild Project in October 2022, and was remounted in 2023 and 2024. (Drama Desk Nomination and finalist for The Lambda Literary Award in Drama.) She is currently commissioned by The Civilians, MTC, and Concord/Sam French. She is a Macdowell, Yaddo, Millay, and Hambidge fellow, and a New Georges Affiliated Artist.

Poster Sketch by Sean Devare