LYDIA
STRYK has written over ten full-length plays including
Lady Lay, The Glamour House, Monte Carlo, and most recently, Safe House,
On Clarion and American Tet. Her plays have been produced at Denver
Center Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Victory Gardens, and Perseverance
Theatre among others and seen as part of new play festivals and in public
reading series off-Broadway and across America. Safe House was part
of the Biennale Bonn in the summer of 2004. The House of Lily can currently
be seen in repertory at Theaterhaus Stuttgart and Schauspiel Essen.
America Tet will have its American premiere at The Contemporary American
Theatre Festival this summer. She is a recipient of a Berrilla Kerr
Foundation Playwright’s Award.
ON
CLARION
Set
in 1954—the super-bomb era--On Clarion follows a charismatic woman
who gathers a group around her to take the ultimate journey—off
the face of the planet. Loosely based on a true story, this dark comedy
asks what we do when existential fears and real destruction lead to
yearnings for a better place.
