It begins the day Willy dies…
Mrs. Loman imagines what can happen to Linda Loman from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman after Willy commits suicide. It asks the viewer how to deal with a sexist canon. And where to go from there.
Barbara Cassidy’s (Playwright) plays have been seen at The Tank, The Flea Theater, Margo Jones Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, JACK, Dixon Place. Little Theater, Bric Studios and along the Hudson River. She earned her MFA in Playwriting from Brooklyn College. Her play INTERIM was nominated for the Barrie Stavis Award by Playwrights’ Horizons and is published in the anthology New Downtown Now. She is currently an inaugural member of Sceal Nua at the Iris Arts Center and has an upcoming residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. She was a 2021 RUC Resident, 2015 MacDowell Fellow and a 2010-2011 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Resident She received a 2018 SuCasa Grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council and a 2018 SPARC Grant from LMCC., was a resident at HB Studio (2016) with Amie Hartman and Sarah Buff for their play DIORAMA. Cassidy is co-creator and co-director of SEEING RAPE- a theater and justice program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She was a semi-finalist for the Beatrice Terry Residency (2018), is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and is a proud member of the Dramatists’ Guild. MRS LOMAN premiered at The Tank November 2022 and it will be performed Winter 2025 at Theatre Row.
Meghan Finn (Director) The Artistic Director of The Tank and a 2024 recipient of the David Prize for extraordinary New Yorkers. Her directorial work has been seen at the Tank, 3LD Art & Technology Center, CSC, the V&A, Serpentine Galleries London, The Wexner Center, SCAD, The Logan Center for the Arts in Chicago, Museo Jumex Mexico City, Powerhouse Theater, The Power Plant, Canadian Stage, Clubbed Thumb, HERE, The Brick, The Bushwick Starr, Soho Gallery, PS122, Dixon Place, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, Montclair State, New Georges, The Flea, The Brooklyn Army Terminal for Creative Time, The Roes Theater Athens Greece, and the OnStage! Festival in Rome and Milan. BA Theater USC, MFA Directing Brooklyn College.
