Press
April 27, 2023 - The East Hampton Star
"In 'You Have to Promise,' two 17-year-olds, Maeve and Nessa, discover there is more to their lifelong relationship than friendship. When they decide to come out to their families, Nessa's father kicks her out and the girls lie to Maeve's stepmother while they try to come up with a solution. Maeve is played by Taylor Richardson, who can be seen as Bridget in the HBO series 'The Gilded Age.'
Another play by Ms. Lang, who is also an actor, is 'Alex Getting Better,' which had its British premiere at the Bread and Roses Theatre in London. Yet another, 'Birdie and Cait and the Book of Life,' is a finalist for the Jewish Plays Project's 2023 contest. 'You Have to Promise' will be performed on May 7 at 2 p.m."
June 29, 2020 - Playbill
"Throughout June, Pride Plays has been developing 11 new works and presenting closed industry readings via Zoom. Check out the gallery below to meet the artists whose work is paving the way for queer stories by artists in the LGBTQ+ community.
Curated by festival producers Doug Nevin and Michael Urie and festival director Nick Mayo, as well as a team of readers and an advisory board, the 2020 lineup showcases stories about self-discovery in the digital age, how the queer experience intersects with religion and culture, new takes on queer love, explorations of gender and the physical body, family drama, friendship, and more."
June 25, 2020 - Playbill
You Have To Promise
Playwright: Audrey Lang
Director: Jenna Worsham
Stage Manager: Seth Betzler
Cast: Johnathan Dougan, Taylor Richardson, Rebecca Jimenez, Quinn Copeland, Cassie Beck
June 11, 2020 - Playbill
"Familial love takes center stage in Audrey Lang’s You Have To Promise, which follows two “baby lesbians” (as Lang calls them) on their journey of self-discovery. “I feel like love stories are so often thought of as falling in or out of love, and I think [the play] is much more about learning how to love people in the way that you actually need to be loved and that that they need to be loved.”"
May 21, 2020 - Playbill
"While “the four ‘MainStage’ plays represent writers who helped lay the groundwork for queer theatre and writers who’ll be leaders of the next generation,” as Urie says, the Festival as a whole is committed to the continued nurturing of more stories by a breadth of artists in the community. “When it comes LGBTQIA+ theatremakers, we have an embarrassment of riches, and with Pride Plays 2020 we are once again scratching the surface. The 11 plays that make up the festival of developing works come from playwrights from all across the rainbow, no two plays or playwrights alike.”"
July 14, 2023 - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
"I'd like to encourage folks to think about Jewish joy. See Audrey Lang's amazing character Librarian of the Jewish Soul in her play 'Birdie & Cait and the Book of Life'..."
January 10, 2023 - BroadwayWorld
"The six finalists are:
BIRDIE AND CAIT AND THE BOOK OF LIFE by Audrey Lang (New York, NY)
When Birdie's mother dies, she embarks on a quest to find the Book of Life. But can she pull off her miracle by Yom Kippur?"
June 16, 2022 - North West End
"Alex Getting Better explores the story of re-emergence of old trauma and how it can affect people in different ways. The playwright, Audrey Lang, describes the play as a play about strength, moving forward and learning to deal with the present and the future. ... A standout feature was the use of monologuing throughout the performance."
June 16, 2022 - The Reviews Hub London
"Where this premise works well...is in Lang's tender delineation of the innocent enthusiasms and concerns on these girls on the cusp of puberty. ... There are glimpses of Lang's potential as a playwright...in particular the play's structure and in her device of repeated speeches beginning 'Something you don't know about me' and 'Littler Safer Things', which chime rhythmically."
May 28, 2021 - BroadwayWorld Portland
"As I reflect on all of the digital theatre I've streamed during the pandemic, ALEX GETTING BETTER, now available from the Oregon Children's Theatre's Young Professionals Company, is the one that has impressed me most. Audrey Lang's play about dealing with the lasting trauma of childhood sexual assault is superbly written -- diving right into all of the shame, guilty, and fear that we don't like to talk about. The play wasn't originally written for Zoom, but it translates so easily it might well have been."
May 20, 2021 - Oregon Live
"The Young Professionals Company at Oregon Children’s Theatre offers its final production of the 2020-21 season. The online play by Audrey Lang deals with the healing process following sexual assault..."
April 27, 2021 - OCT Blog
"The YPs in the show also had important takeaways from the production. 'It is important to tell stories through theatre and performance that may not come across the same if through a different medium,' commented Lily Russell, who plays the titular character. 'I've learned so much about my own healing process through Alex Getting Better and how it's okay to not be okay. It's all in your own time.'"
April 26, 2021 - BroadwayWorld Portland
"The show focuses on Alex, a college sophomore who engages in multiple conversations with old friends in a healing journey to overcome a past sexual trauma. 'In the play, Alex learns that it's okay to not be okay,' Baldwin explained. 'Healing from trauma is a process and cannot be overcome quickly. She learns that everyone has their own way of coping, their own way of accepting and processing the trauma.'"
April 30, 2019 - The Sophie Fund
"Lang portrays the diverse approaches that victims of sexual assault can take toward healing. Some of Alex’s friends had repressed the memories and remained friends with the assailant; others had forgiven, and moved on. Throughout the play, the feelings of shame, discomfort, and paranoia are visceral and perturbing as we watch Alex striving to work through her fears, accept the trauma, and learn to let go."
February 19, 2024 - A Playwright's Journey
"A beautiful usage of myth to discuss important and relevant issues of the modern day. I absolutely adored the relationship between Lily and Lilith-- how Lilith's story helps Lily to process her own. It was lovely to see depicted older femmes supporting and listening to younger ones through something as unfortunately common and traumatic as Lily's experience. The playwright convincingly writes a young girl processing a difficult and awful experience without 'trauma dumping'. As a femme, this play felt really healing."
June 2, 2022 - Hartford Courant
"The Jewish Plays Project, June 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave., Hartford offers readings of three short works: 'Lily Ineffable' by Audrey Lang, 'Madeleines' by Bess Welden and 'To Reach Across a River' by Marshall Botvinick. The audience gets to vote on the play they like best."
May 18, 2022 - BroadwayWorld
"LILY INEFFABLE by Audrey Lang, directed by Sara Rodriguez: When child performer Lily hesitates to tell her family about a trauma, she is visited by Lilith, a Judaic demon with very strong opinions. The cast features Maeve Press, Celia Mei Rubin, Laura Helm, Elsa Dees, Erika Wasko, and Molly Richardson."
January 23, 2022 - BroadwayWorld
"'These plays are asking the key Jewish theater question of our time - what is the role of Jewish other-ness in a vastly changed and changing cultural landscape?' said Artistic Director David Winitsky. 'From the fields of Iowa to backstage on Broadway, these fantastic writers are creating thrilling plays that should have long lives on the world's best stages.'"
February 6, 2021 - Times Square Chronicles
"6pm: Rye Bread Ithaca College Hillel and Kyle Friedman present a fundraiser reading of Rye Bread, a new play written by Audrey Lang and directed by Britt Berke."
February 2, 2021 - BroadwayWorld
"Ithaca College Hillel and Kyle Friedman (Ithaca College '23) present a fundraiser reading of Rye Bread, a new play written by Audrey Lang (Ithaca College '20, Pride Plays) and directed by Britt Berke (The 24 Hour Plays: Nationals)."
May 20, 2020 - Buzzsaw Magazine
"Lang curates intensely realistic situations in her writing. Amid her poignant observations and metaphors, she does not lose the beauty of everyday language, from debates over who gets the extra tomatoes from the salad, to who’s responsible for getting rid of the rats in the office to the decadence of pre-dinner ice cream. Rye Bread reminds you that real life is just as complex as the fantastical, a stark reminder in these uncertain times."
March 8, 2020 - stageways
"Women Are Funny received 150 entries from around the world. ...
Semifinalists
Rye Bread by Audrey Lang
June 27, 2025 - Summit Daily
"The program invites four playwrights to craft original 10-minute plays in just four days, each inspired by [Theatre SilCo's] current main stage production, 'Steel Magnolias,' which is running now through July 13."
June 18, 2025 - OnStage Colorado
"New Dialogues - Theatre SilCo is pleased to bring you New Dialogues, an exciting playwriting initiative that puts imagination under pressure while bringing fresh perspectives to the stage. Created to provide playwrights with an opportunity that both challenges and cultivates their writing skills, New Dialogues invites four playwrights to compose a ten minute play in response to a Theatre SilCo Mainstage production. (Free admission through June 30)"
August 11, 2023 - The Orange Players
December 19, 2019 - A Younger Theatre
"Sierra Nevada was one of those instances where we all just lucked out. It was a brilliant script and something fellow actor, Lexie McDougall and I could really get our teeth in. We were being directed by the calm, kind and clever Jessica Arden and all three of us had that rare experience when you really click with one another. ... We bonded so much in fact that we even have our own WhatsApp group, ‘NO BS Theatre Company’, inspired by a quote from Audrey’s play about “bullshitting” in your writing."
June 30, 2020 - Playbill
"Writers for this week's [24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues] are Pride Plays' Ted Malawer, Omar Hantash, Sophie Sagan-Gutherz, Preston Max Allen, Azure Osborne-Lee, Hayley St. James, Rodney Hicks, Audrey Lang, Carmen LoBue, and Garrett David Kim, along with Lovell Holder and Roger Q Mason."
June 30, 2020 - Broadway.com
"The evening will feature 12 new monologues by writers from the New York-based Pride Plays...Original monologues will be written by Rodney Hicks, Preston Max Allen, Omar Hantash, Audrey Lang, Carmen LoBue, Ted Malawer, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Sophie Sagan-Gutherz, Hayley St. James as well as West Coast partner artists Lovell Holder and Roger Q Mason.
June 30, 2020 - BroadwayWorld
"Pride Plays writers Preston Max Allen, Omar Hantash, Rodney Hicks, Audrey Lang, Carmen LoBue, Ted Malawer, Azure D. Osborne-Lee, Sophie Sagan-Gutherz, and Hayley St. James will join West Coast partner artists Lovell Holder and Roger Q Mason to form this week's all-star team of playwrights."
