ALEXANDRA COLLIER is an Aussie who has developed her plays at Sydney Theatre Company, Women's Project, New Georges, the Lark and Dixon Place. Recent credits: Take Me Home (a mobile site specific show in a New York city taxi, Other Forces Festival, Incubator Arts Project), We Play for the Gods (Off Broadway, Women's Project Lab, Cherry Lane), Underland (developed at Sydney Theatre Company and Dixon Place). Other awards and fellowships: Susan Smith Blackburn Finalist (Holy Day), UCROSS Foundation, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Rhinebeck Writer's Retreat, MacDowell Fellowship. Playwriting MFA from Brooklyn College and member of '10-'12 Women's Project Playwrights Lab.
Excerpts from CRYING LETTUCE
"I didn't seek to hurt anyone but I do know that people often recognize themselves in fiction and fail to see themselves in truth. I have never tried to write the truth."
"Things hang in the balance from nanosecond to nanosecond. Things are fabulous and then they're a shitshow."
"Anna: ...he was a fruit-atarian.
Anna: You know. A fruit-atarian.
Anna: They are waiting for fruit to fall off trees before they can eat.
Anna: They are (she mimes staring blankly at fruit tree) sitting... sitting... sitting in orchard all day and waiting for fruits to fall.
Ivy: You're kidding me. What the fuck do they eat?
Anna: Nothing. We did not go to restaurant. We did not do anything. He ate many mushrooms.
Anna: He said it is ok, because mushrooms are not so stuck in earth, so you can, like, pull them softly from the ground without them knowing. "
Hear the whole play at Groundworks, coming at you this summer!
