Series: Yale Drama Series

The seventeenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, a deeply personal celebration of trans identity and the magic it takes to define yourself in our world After one night together in the desert, Grace uproots their life to chase after Brahm, a person who is slowly becoming a cactus. Not known for having a green thumb, Grace tends to Brahm...

How to Defend Yourself is a Yale Drama Series-winning play about self-defence, desire, and healing in the aftermath of a college rape. Seven college students gather for a DIY self-defence workshop after a sorority sister is raped. They practise using their bodies as weapons. They wrestle with their desires. They learn the limits of self-defence. This new play by writer,...

An absurdist comedy and fifteenth winner of the Yale Drama Prize, exploring family, religion, identity, desire, and beauty in Korean American culture. In a fantastical fairy-tale world, two Korean American sisters are deemed too fat to fit in their family grave. Will the sisters’ close bond survive under the pressure of their community and fretful parents, who will spare no...

The fourteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize explores “Blackness” and the reasons why joy and peace might be harder to get than we think. What does it mean to be safe when you’re a person of colour in the United States? If you were given the chance to leave and create a utopia, would you? Is utopia possible...