Full Length Plays
Constantinople, or The Hair Plug Play
Ten years out of high school, Clement, Sebastian, and Reid fly to Istanbul to celebrate the engagement of their golden-boy friend, Ahren, by getting hair transplants together. What begins as a weekend of pokes and jests soon gives way to reopened wounds, buried rivalries, and the quiet realization that none of them are as happy as they pretend to be. Each man is nursing his own private desperation, unsure how to ask for help, unsure even how to stay friends. A dark comedy about vanity, aging, and the ache of male friendship in a world that taught boys not to need each other.
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 writer based in Brooklyn, NY. His plays include Anne Frank in Mt. Vernon, Ohio (produced by Glitch Stage and Film at JACK; semi-finalist for the National Jewish Playwriting Contest), Constantinople, or The Hair Plug Play (developed w/ The Edith Wharton Writing Residency and Slough Farm Residency), and Smooth Time (developed w/ NYFA City Corps Grant & 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 at NYU in Dramatic Writing.