Cost of Living (TCG Edition)
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Cost of Living (TCG Edition)
By (Author) Martyna Majok
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
29th January 2019
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
812/.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
128
Width 136mm, Height 215mm
Description
Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2018
Other awards for Cost of Living: Edgerton New Play Prize (2016), Jean Kennedy Smith PrizeThe John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2016), Women's InvitationalAshland New Plays Festival
2016 NY Times Critics' Pick
Cost of Living received its New York premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in June 2017, following a world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Majok, born in Poland before immigrating to the United States at a young age, frequently gives voices to the voiceless and explores underrepresented communities in her writing.
Majok has received many other honors for her writing, including:
- The Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, The Lilly Awards' Stacey Mindich Prize, The Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical at The Helen Hayes Awards, Marin Theatres David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, New York Theatre Workshops 2050 Fellowship, Aurora Theatres Global Age Project Prize, National New Play Networks Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, Jane Chambers Student Feminist Playwriting Prize, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream.
Majok is an alumna of EST's Youngblood and Women's Project Lab.
She has taught playwriting at Williams College, Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, Primary Stages ESPA, NJRep, and as an assistant to Paula Vogel at Yale.
She is a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
Reviews
"Cost of Living is perfection. It reawakens my belief in the poetry of theater and highlights its purpose as the critical eye on our human existence... Ms. Majok brilliantly infuses her characters and dialogue with biting humor."-- "New York Theatre Guide"
Author Bio
Martyna Majok's other plays include Ironbound, Queens and Sanctuary City. She is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Award, Lilly Award, Helen Hayes Award, Lanford Wilson Prize, Greenfield Prize, Jean Kennedy Smith Award, two Jane Chambers Awards, NYTW's 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Majok was the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center and is a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
