Snowbirds

A reading of Snowbirds written by Lauren Holmes and directed by Will Steinberger

Stage Manager Richard Urquiza

Recent retirees Tom and Joan have hit the road in their new RV, ready to experience the next phase of their lives. When cash gets tight, they pick up work in a warehouse. What happens when our working lives never end?

Snowbirds is being presented as a part of the cell's 2025/26 Residency Program.

about the artists

Lauren Holmes is a playwright and producer from Dedham, Massachusetts. She’s the recipient of the 2024 Princess Grace Award in Playwriting/New Dramatists Residency, a Venturous Playwrights Fellowship 2025 nomination, and a 2024 Woodward Residency. She recently adapted Olga Ravn’s novel The Employees for a production at Theaterlab. Her work has been developed and performed at Theaterlab, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Pace University, and The Brick. Lauren’s a finalist for the Bushwick Starr Reading Series, the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women, and the Risk Theatre Prize, and a semi-finalist for the Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship, The Terrence McNally Fellowship, The Next Forever Residency, The Civilians R&D Lab, and WP Lab. Before becoming a playwright, Lauren worked on political campaigns, in the private sector, and for the United Nations in Italy and New York. She draws on these experiences to write dark, comic plays about work, class, families of happenstance, and seekers of hidden knowledge. They’re grounded in realism, but full of ghosts, invisible dogs, aliens, and other spirits. MFA in playwriting from Hunter College. Founding member of The Omnivores. laurenholm.es

Will Steinberger is a Drama League Award nominated director and producer. He has directed and developed new plays at New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, Hartford Stage, the Drama League, Berkshire Theatre Group, Powerhouse Theater, Valdez Theater Conference, The Brick, the Wilma, and InterAct. He recently directed Johnny G. Lloyd’s birthday birthday birthday at The Tank and Andrea Stolowitz’s The Berlin Diaries at 59E59 featuring David Greenspan, produced in association with The New Group. Other productions include Han Van Sciver’s Happy Birthday, Han (JACK), Gina Femia’s meet you at the Galaxy Diner. (The Tank and New Light Theatre Project), Charles Gershman’s Oedipus 2.0.2.0 (All For One f/ Eddie Cooper; Drama League nom), and Johnny G. Lloyd’s Or, an Astronaut Play (The Tank and InVersion Theatre, of which he is a proud co-founder). Will is a former artist in residence at New York Stage and Film and has been a guest speaker or artist at the Yale School of Drama, Brown University, University of California – San Diego, Syracuse University, UT – Austin, Vassar College, Neumann University, and Hunter College. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Theatre magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Forward, WHYY, Philadelphia Weekly, and Philadelphia Magazine. Member, LCT Directors Lab. Finalist, National Directors Fellowship. WSteinberger.com.