Full Length Plays
Constantinople; or, The Hair Plug Play
Three friends go on a pilgrimage to Istanbul to get hair transplants. What begins as a weekend of pokes and jests soon gives way to old wounds, buried rivalries, and the uncomfortable realization that none of them are as happy as they pretend to be. Beneath the jokes, each man is confronting a different version of the same question: what, exactly, are they trying to fix?
Anne Frank in Mt. Vernon, Ohio
Community theater leader Logan Dean, determined to bring “outside voices” to his small town, writes his own stage version of The Diary of Anne Frank despite knowing almost nothing about Jewish history. Mary Klam, a local Christian woman who has just discovered a distant Jewish ancestor on 23andMe, defies her husband and joins the cast. When an unexpected guest arrives to stop the production, Logan and Mary must decide how far they will go to put on a play they believe could change Mt. Vernon for the better.
Books
What This Place Makes Me: A Collection of 21st Century American Plays on Immigration
Seven award-winning plays by rising stars of contemporary theater herald a profound shift in what it means to be an American, an immigrant, and an artist on today’s stage. Includes works by Shayok Misha Chowdhury, Hansol Jung, Martyna Majok, Mona Mansour, Charlie Oh, Mfoniso Udofia, and Jesús I. Valles. From Restless Books.
Contact:
email Isaiah at stavchanskyi@gmail.com
Isaiah Stavchansky is a Mexican American and Jewish writer based in Brooklyn, NY. His plays include Anne Frank in Mt. Vernon, Ohio (produced by Glitch Stage and Film at JACK; semifinalist for the National Jewish Playwriting Contest), Constantinople; or, The Hair Plug Play (developed at the Edith Wharton Writing Residency and Slough Farm Residency), and Smooth Time (developed with support from the NYFA City Artist Corps Grant and The Mark O'Donnell Theater).
He is the editor of What This Place Makes Me: A Collection of 21st Century American Plays on Immigration, published by Restless Books. Isaiah is a graduate of Kenyon College and an MFA candidate in Dramatic Writing at NYU.
In addition to his writing, Isaiah is a teaching artist who has taught creative writing for Restless Books, the New York Public Library, Dream Project, Atlantic Theater Company, Collegiate School, Packer Collegiate Institute, and the Kenyon College Writing Center.