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The Moss Maidens
Author(s): S. Dylan Zwickel
Based on a true story, the play portrays a group of five non-Jewish young women living in a mid-sized Dutch town in 1941. They aid the resistance movement by seducing Nazis and killing them secretly in the woods. After an unintentional murder, the women bring more Nazis to the woods and start to kill them intentionally. They initially kill their targets using impromptu tactics like blunt force trauma to the head, but by the end of the play, the Nazi-hunting women are practicing shooting with pistols and targets, murdering their Nazi foes with precise gunshots.
Format: Full-length play
Cast Size: 7F (6 late teens–20s, 1 40s); 1M (20s–30s); silent ensemble of flexible size
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Performed at SheNYC, an annual summer theater festival in New York City that showcases plays written and performed by female, transgender, and nonbinary artists.
Performed at SheNYC, an annual summer theater festival in New York City that showcases plays written and performed by female, transgender, and nonbinary artists.
Nationality of Author: U.S.
Original Language: English
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Visit author’s website: sdylanzwickel.com
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Lifetime Achievement Award
The National Jewish Theater Foundation presented its 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award to Alfred Uhry. The presentation took place as part of the Lincoln Center Library event on January 27th 2025 in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 80th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
Lifetime Achievement Award
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