Sylvan Oswald

Archival image for PROFANITY of the Logan section of Philadelphia where most of the houses sank into the ground.

A workshop of my new play, the final installment of my Mysteries trilogy (SUN RA, NIGHTLANDS)
Soho Rep's Dorothy Strelsin Playwriting Fellowship Studio
Thursday, May 17 at 7pm and Friday, May 18 at 4pm
off-site at the Robert Moss Theater
440 Lafayette Street, 3rd floor (at Astor Place)
Free and open to the public

This workshop is supported by a grant from the Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists, a partnership of Avoda Arts, JDub Records, and the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and made possible with major funding from UJA-Federation of New York. The play was also developed as part of the inaugural Clubbed Thumb Writers Group.
Recently
Vendetta Chrome produced at Purchase College/SUNY directed by Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects March 22-25.

My early Philadelphia play Desmond or Abraham and Frances about two kids trying to make it big time - before their father explodes or their house sinks completely into the earth - will make its Midwestern debut in a student production at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Scroll forward for a sneak preview from my new play, Cleopatra, created at the Pataphysics Silent Retreat led by Erik Ehn in the Hill Country of Texas. Reading as part of the inaugural Clubbed Thumb Writers Group this June.
XAN
A lion with the head of a boy.
I walked out there myself today.
To see the Sphinx.
Other cultures have imagined him.
With breasts, enormous breasts,
A woman with a lion’s body.
But I like the lion boy.
The boy lion.