Three and a Half Anne Franks

Three and a Half Anne Franks

a new play by Maya Macdonald
directed by Molly Shayna Cohen

produced by Adam Cohen, Tony Leone, and Katrina Olson
with Alex Trow, Molly Bernard, Estefanía Giraldo, Clarissa Thibeaux, and David Jacobs

Runtime: 100 minutes

About the play:

Three people audition to play Anne Frank in a production that could not obtain the rights to a single word from Anne’s diary. As interpretations vary, we begin to see the difference between who Anne Frank was and who we need her to be. With biting humor, this play explores complications of privacy and authorship, appropriation, race and Jewish identity, and the performance of history.

Details: 

Thu, May 30, 2024 at 6:00 p.m.

Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center

7th floor of the Rose Building on West 65th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue

about the playwright:

Maya Macdonald’s plays include brunch, which was an Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award, a Finalist for O’Neil Playwrights Conference, and a Semi-Finalist for Theatre503’s Playwriting Award in London and was developed with The Playwrights Realm as part of their writing fellowship program. Three and a Half Anne Franks (Finalist, O’Neill Playwrights Conference), Raw Pasta (Semi-Finalist, The O’Neil and Seven Devils Playwrights Conference), Leave the Balcony Open (Finalist, Princess Grace Award) and Mind Your Beehive (Semi-Finalist, O’Neil). As a TV and screenwriter Maya has developed work for Fishladder Productions and is currently developing an animated series for Titmouse. Maya teaches both Screenwriting and Playwriting. Currently she teaches Playwriting at Molloy University. She received her BA from Bennington College and her MFA from Hunter College where she studied with Annie Baker, Brighde Mullins, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and received the Irv Zarkowr Award for Excellence in Playwriting.

about the director: 

Molly Shayna Cohen (she/they) is multi / mixed media theatre artist whose work centers on moments of transformation and the ephemerality in all things. Since moving to New York from Baltimore in 2022, she has worked at The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Mabou Mines, Theaterlab, En Garde Arts, and more. Their interactive interview-based multimedia installation Weaving a New Narrative was the recipient of the Maryland Humanities Major Grant Award and traveled across the state. She is the Associate Artistic Director of Theatre of the Electric Mouth, founding member of film collective Lux Daze Media, and company member of the award-winning experimental theatre group The Acme Corporation. Molly is currently a MFA Directing Candidate (2025) at Brooklyn College where they received the Graduate Teaching Fellowship. mollyshaynacohen.com