by Emmy Weissman

INKubator 2022-2023

Mikvah Girls is the story of two orthodox Jewish women from New Jersey who are supposed to be performing a monthly cleansing ritual at a mikvah. Instead, they actually use this time to hold meetings of their two-person Bruce Springsteen fan club. Together they grapple with the effects their religion has on their sexuality, desires, hopes, and dreams, all while obsessing over the Boss and dreaming of a better world they could build together.

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
- Honorable Mention, The Relentless Award, 2024
- Production, Hollywood Fringe Festival, 2024 (winner of the Fringe Award for Drama, winner of the Best of the Broadwater, finalist for the International Fringe Encore Series, finalist for the Loud Karma Emerging Female and Nonbinary Playwright Award)
- Semi-Finalist, National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 2024 
- Semi-Finalist, Playwrights Realm Fellowship, 2024
- Semi-Finalist, SheNYC Summer Theater Festival, 2024
- Semi-Finalist, Jewish Plays Project National Jewish Playwriting Contest, 2023
- Reading, Breaking and Entering Theatre Company, 2023

For more information, contact Emmy Weissman at emmyweissman@gmail.com