We Had a World
World Premiere
written by Joshua Harmon
directed by Trip Cullman
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OFF-BROADWAY AT
New York City Center
2024-2025 Season
A dying woman calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. “But I want you to promise me something,” she says. “Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible." In this searing, funny and deeply personal play, the author of last season's Prayer for the French Republic recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love. Directing is Trip Cullman (Choir Boy, Murder Ballad).
Additional support is provided by The Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater.
Creative
Joshua Harmon
Playwright
JOSHUA HARMON (Playwright) His plays include Prayer for the French Republic (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), Skintight, Admissions (Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), Significant Other and Bad Jews. Musicals: The Bedwetter. He has been produced on Broadway and the West End; Off-Broadway at Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Atlantic Theater Company; across the country at Geffen Playhouse, Huntington, Studio Theatre, Speakeasy, Theater Wit, Actor’s Express, and The Magic, among others; and internationally in more than a dozen countries. Honors include two MacDowell fellowships and a Guggenheim. Graduate of Juilliard.
Trip Cullman
Director
Trip Cullman (Director). Broadway: The Rose Tattoo, Choir Boy (Tony nom., Best Play), Lobby Hero (Tony nom., Best Revival), Six Degrees of Separation (Tony nom., Best Revival), Significant Other. Select Off Broadway: I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Best Revival, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle) (CSC); The Lonely Few, Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow, YEN, Punk Rock (Obie Award), A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit At Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Of New York City (MCC); Days Of Rage, The Layover, The Substance of Fire, Lonely I’m Not, Bachelorette, Some Men, Swimming In The Shallows (Second Stage); Unknown Soldier, The Pain Of My Belligerence, Assistance, A Small Fire (Drama Desk nomination, Best Direction), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Choir Boy (MTC); Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theatre); The Mother, I’m Gonna Pray For You So Hard (Atlantic); Roulette (EST); The Hallway Trilogy: Nursing (Rattlestick); The Last Sunday In June (Rattlestick and Century Center); Dog Sees God (Century Center); US Drag (stageFARM); and several productions with The Play Company. London: The Colby Sisters of Pittsburgh, PA (Tricycle). Select regional: Berkeley Rep, Geffen, Arena, Alliance, Old Globe, La Jolla, South Coast Rep, Bay Street, Williamstown Theater Festival.
Joshua Harmon
Playwright
Trip Cullman
Director