PMA Alum L M Feldman ’01 has been selected as a finalist for the 2024 National Playwrights Conference, for her play hand foot hand. The National Playwrights Conference will run from June 17 to July 14 in the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, in Waterford, CT.
L has also been selected as a Venturous Playwright Fellow for her play Another Kind of Silence. The Venturous Playwright Fellowship runs from 2023 to 2025.
Read more about L M Feldman’s plays:
hand foot hand: An intimate & raw, tender & queer, honest & embodied new play about three professional circus artists trying to heal their injured bodies and broken hearts, and figure out what the next chapter of their life holds if they can no longer be who they were. Or do what they did. How do you -- in middle-age -- build a new shoulder? A new career? A new home? A new life? A new selfhood? A play about love & loss, friendship & partnership, virtuosity & mortality, and the life of midcareer freelance artists in contemporary America.
Another Kind of Silence: Perilous & luminous in equal measure, Another Kind of Silence tells the story of Evan & Chap – 2 already-partnered queer women who cross paths in modern-day Greece and find themselves falling in love. Through a landscape lush with language, myth, humor, and intimacy, we watch as their affected partnerships navigate the elusiveness of desire, the failures of communication, the challenges of long-term commitment, and the mysteries of a changing self. Bilingual & bicultural, Another Kind of Silence unfolds simultaneously in English & American Sign Language (ASL) as the 4 characters & their 4 souls (a Greek Chorus) traverse one of the hardest chapters in committed relationships.
L M Feldman is a queer, feminist, GNC playwright who writes theatrically audacious, physically kinetic, ensemble-driven plays that are both epic & intimate. Plays about the women & queers she finds in the shadows & footnotes & margins of history. Plays that explode space & time & dramaturgical form. Plays that seek to create a COMMUNAL & TRANSCENDENT experience – for those both onstage & off. So far, her plays include: hand foot hand; [untitled circus school play]; S P A C E ; Thrive, Or What You Will [An Epic]; Another Kind of Silence; Scribe, or The Sisters Milton, or Elegy for the Unwritten; The Egg-Layers; Grace, or The Art of Climbing; a People [a mosaic play]; Tropical Secrets, or All the Flutes in the Sea; and 7 full-length devised works. L's work has been nominated for the Herb Alpert Award, Wasserstein Prize, Stavis Playwright Award, NY Innovative Theatre Award, Doric Wilson Independent Playwright Award, and twice for the Blackburn Prize. Her work was also a finalist for the Jane Chambers Award, Terrence McNally Award, FEWW Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Drama. L is also ongoingly thankful to have been a Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries winner, Orbiter 3 member, Playwrights’ Center Core Writer, an EST/Sloan commission recipient, and an alum of the Yale School of Drama and the New England Center for Circus Arts. L has lived in seven cities and is currently based in Philadelphia, where she writes, devises, dramaturgs, advocates, teaches (all over the place), and handstands (also all over the place). She’s over the moon to be a 2023-2025 Venturous Playwright Fellow through The Playwrights’ Center, and to be part of The Philly Cycle through InterAct Theatre. Learn more about L’s work from her website or from the New Play Exchange.
