Havurah
by Margot Connolly
Script Development & Reading
Facilitated by The Interstitial
Playwright - Margot Connolly
Dramaturg - Morgan Grambo
Director - Alex Keegan
****
August 2025
Facilitated by The Interstitial
Playwright - Margot Connolly
Dramaturg - Morgan Grambo
Director - Alex Keegan
****
August 2025
Back Row, L to R: Alex Keegan, Leela Bassuk, Josh Bloom, Margot Connolly, Max Raymond, Nat Stornelli
Front Row, L to R: Georgia Kate Cohen, Annie Hoeg, Olivia Cygan, Isabelle Chirls, Catherine Bloom, Morgan Grambo
Front Row, L to R: Georgia Kate Cohen, Annie Hoeg, Olivia Cygan, Isabelle Chirls, Catherine Bloom, Morgan Grambo
Havurah by Margot Connolly
At Crosby College, a small liberal arts university, two students clubs strive for connection and comfort in difficult times. When a tragedy occurs in the local Jewish community, members of the Haruvah club are left reeling. The Christian social justice club wants to help, but struggles to know how. Deeply relevant, strikingly realistic, Haruvah depicts the complexities and possibilities of connecting with others in times of grief.
Margot's play, Havurah, will receive two productions by schools in the Big Bridge Theatre Consortium during the '25-26 season at George Fox University and Hope College.
At Crosby College, a small liberal arts university, two students clubs strive for connection and comfort in difficult times. When a tragedy occurs in the local Jewish community, members of the Haruvah club are left reeling. The Christian social justice club wants to help, but struggles to know how. Deeply relevant, strikingly realistic, Haruvah depicts the complexities and possibilities of connecting with others in times of grief.
Margot's play, Havurah, will receive two productions by schools in the Big Bridge Theatre Consortium during the '25-26 season at George Fox University and Hope College.
Margot Connolly is a playwright and librettist originally from Pleasantville, NY. Her plays include Belfast Kind (Winner, JPP's Jewish Playwriting Contest, Patty Abramson Prize Finalist), Quiz Out (Princess Grace Finalist, 2019 Kilroy’s Honorable Mention), The Twitch (Princess Grace Finalist), and Tough (Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival Finalist). Her work has been produced and developed through Hope Repertory Theatre, The Jungle, Repertory St. Louis, Primary Stages, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Playwrights Center, the Jewish Plays Project, and The Juilliard School, among others. She's currently under commission from the Juilliard School and the Big Bridge Theatre Consortium, and is a past recipient of an EST/Sloan commission for her play Hello, World. She's a Playwrights Center Affiliated Writer and has been a finalist for the Jerome Fellowship, the Emerald Prize, and the Princess Grace Award. She received her BA from Bennington College, her MFA from the University of Iowa’s Playwrights Workshop, and is a recent graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights’ Program at Juilliard. writemargotwrite.com/