February 11–12, 2017

Leeds Theatre

Written by Julia Izumi ’19 MFA

Directed by Kate Bergstrom ’18 MFA

Presented as part of Writing is Live 2017

The Little Mermaid is Hans Christian Andersen’s most beloved and well-known fairy tale, which is why that is not the story our friend, Dolan, told us. No, he didn’t tell us the story of a Little Rain Cloud who falls in love with a human. They are not the same story at all, he swears. And both stories have nothing to do with the storyteller either. Nope, nothing at all.

Julia Izumi ’19 MFA is a playwright, performer, and aspiring penguin. Her plays have been developed with and produced by the WOW Café Theatre, New Ohio Theater, Dixon Place, Martin E. Segal Center, the New York Society Library, Williamstown Theatre Festival, A-Squared Theatre Workshop, Ugly Rhino Productions, and The Habitat Theatre Company. She was granted a First Floor Studio Residency at HB Studio and the Fresh Ground Pepper PlayGround PlayGroup Residency. She is a proud member of the BMI Librettists Workshop, the Beehive Collective, and the Artistic Committee of The Brewing Dept. Her play Meet Murasaki Shikibu Followed by Book-Signing, and Other Things was presented at the 2016 Great Plains Theatre Conference and in the NY International Fringe Festival. Her play A Girl’s Gotta Do, etc. has been selected as a winner of the 2017 Theater Masters’ National MFA Playwrights Festival. As a performer, she has also collaborated with HERE, Incubator Arts, Mabou Mines, Lust & Liberty, Communal Spaces with The Motor Company, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others.
www.juliaizumi.com