Queens
written by Martyna Majok
directed by Trip Cullman
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OFF-BROADWAY AT
New York City Center
2025-26 Season
From Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living, Sanctuary City) comes an epic drama about hunting for the American Dream, finding family, and facing the ghosts you left behind. In an illegal basement apartment in Queens, multiple generations of immigrant women fight to launch a new life. But when a young Ukrainian woman comes searching for the mother who abandoned her years ago, she forces a reckoning with the impossible choices the women made to survive. Directed by Trip Cullman (We Had A World, Choir Boy), Queens chronicles the strivers who sacrificed whole worlds for the chance at something remarkable.
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This newly imagined version of Queens was commissioned by The Hermitage Artist Retreat and co-commissioned by The Almeida Theatre, Rupert Goold, Artistic Director, Denise Wood, Executive Director, and Manhattan Theatre Club, Lynne Meadow, Artistic Director, Barry Grove, Executive Producer through the Edgerton Foundation New Play Commission program. |
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Martyna Majok
Playwright
MARTYNA MAJOK (Playwright) was born in Bytom, Poland and raised in Jersey and Chicago. She was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Cost of Living. Other plays include Sanctuary City, Queens, and Ironbound, which have been produced across American and international stages. Awards include The Academy of Arts and Letters’ Benjamin Hadley Danks Award for Exceptional Playwriting; The Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding New Play; The Greenfield Prize, as the first female recipient in drama; The Champions of Change Award from the NYC Mayor’s Office; The Francesca Primus Prize; two Jane Chambers Playwriting Awards; The Lanford Wilson Prize; The Lilly Award’s Stacey Mindich Prize; Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award; Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play from The Helen Hayes Awards; Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award; ANPF Women’s Invitational Prize; David Calicchio Prize; Global Age Project Prize; NYTW 2050 Fellowship; NNPN Smith Prize for Political Playwriting; and Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Martyna studied at Yale School of Drama, Juilliard, University of Chicago, and Jersey public schools. She was a 2012-2013 NNPN playwright-in-residence, the 2015-2016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center, and a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University. Martyna is currently writing a musical adaptation of The Great Gatsby, with music by Florence Welch and Thomas Bartlett, and developing TV and film for HBO, Plan B, and Pastel.
Trip Cullman
Director
TRIP CULLMAN (Director). Broadway: Cult of Love (Outer Critics Circle nom., Best Direction), The Rose Tattoo, Choir Boy, Lobby Hero (Tony nom., Best Revival), Six Degrees of Separation (Tony nom., Best Revival), Significant Other. Select Off Broadway: We Had A World, Choir Boy (MTC); Murder Ballad (MTC and Union Square Theatre); 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 nom., Best Direction), The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons); Significant Other (Roundabout); 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, McCarter, Geffen, Arena, Alliance, Old Globe, La Jolla, South Coast Rep, Bay Street, Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Martyna Majok
Playwright
Trip Cullman
Director