Head of Playwriting - Columbia Stages

lila FEiNBErg
It is the rocky topography of human relationships that
intrigues Lila Feinberg. Many of her dark comedies
are inspired by her changing address: an all-girl’s dorm;
the room of a deceased teen; and presently, hospital
housing for surgical residents. Her plays are like maps,
finding the point where love, language, and locality
intersect.
When a group of former medical
school friends reunite during Hurricane
Irene weekend, the premature death
of one of their classmates is brought
into question. The search for answers
forces each of them to examine the
choices they’ve made, in the operating
room and in the bedroom. Vertebrae
takes a darkly comic look at commitment—in
the face of engagement
rings and Rx pads—when one mistake
can have catastrophic results.
Thursday April 26 at 2:30pm
Friday April 27 at 7:30pm
Saturday, April 28 at 2:30pm
vertebrae
by lila feinberg — mentored by Craig luCas
Lila Feinberg is a playwright, screenwriter, and actress.
Last summer, her commissioned play Night Float
premiered at Playwrights Horizon’s Peter J. Sharp
Theater, a process that was featured in the Wall Street
Journal and the documentary Medicine As a Relational
Act. Recent readings include: Monkey Bowl (Manhattan
Theater Club studio); Heirloom (“Audience Award”
at the Emerging Female Playwrights Voices Fest); Burnt
Orange (Miller Theatre); The Stone Fidelity (mentored
by Joe Kraemer and Julia Jordan); and an upcoming
piece in The Flea’s Serials. An excerpt from her
play Perched (Cherry Lane Studio) was published in
the anthology What We Brought Back. She is last year’s
recipient of the Gatsby Charitable Fund Grant and
the Interdisciplinary Arts Council Grant. Currently,
she is developing an adaptation for a film production
company in LA, and a TV pilot. As an actress, she
studied with the Moscow Art Theater, and performed
new work at Primary Stages, Cherry Lane, 92nd St Y,
and Symphony Space. She graduated summa cum
laude from Barnard College.
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