Discipline: Theatre – playwriting

Liza Birkenmeier

Discipline: Theatre – playwriting
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015, 2017

Liza Birkenmeier is working on a large ensemble play about college-aged, communist-sympathizing physicists working on the first atomic bomb at Los Alamos in 1944. She recently collaborated on an interactive piece about water that premiered with New Georges and 3LD.

Studios

Star

Liza Birkenmeier worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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