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The Moss Maidens

CKC Productions is proud to present a staged reading of NYC-based playwright S. Dylan Zwickel's award-winning The Moss Maidens

The year is 1941 and Isa, Rini, Silke, Helena, and Floor are five ordinary teenage girls living in a midsized Dutch town. They spend their days gossiping about their classmates, dreaming about their futures, and trying not to catch the eye of any of the Nazis that have taken up residence in their town. But when Rini, the romantic of the group, takes a walk in the woods with a Nazi who she’s hoping might be secretly a Resistance fighter and also her soulmate and sort-of-accidentally ends up killing him, the girls discover that they’re the last people anyone would ever suspect when harm befalls members of the invading army, and a new branch of the Resistance is born. 

The Moss Maidens broke records for its high demand at the 2023 SheNYC Festival, where it received the awards for Best Play and Best Ensemble.

 

CAST

Claire Adams

Caitlyn Calfas

Regina Co

Capucine Earle

Katherine Lyle

Beth Organ

Nathan Ricard

 

CREATIVE TEAM

Caitlyn Calfas, Katherine Lyle and Claire Adams for CKC Productions

Playwright: S. Dylan Zwickel

Director: S. Dylan Zwickel

Assistant Director and Stage Directions: Aishwarya Gaikwad

 

CKC Productions is focused on developing women-led theatre and American women's theatrical voices in London. We create opportunities for artists to put their work out there with safe, organized, and playful collaboration. We are three London-based American actors, singers, writers and theatre artists who met during graduate school at LAMDA.

S. Dylan Zwickel is an NYC-based writer and director. Her plays have been Finalists or Semifinalists for the Orchard Project, the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, the Jane Chambers Prize, the Princess Grace Award, the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Award, and the O’Neill’s National Playwrights Conference. She served as Director's Assistant on the Aretha Franklin biopic Respect and runs a murder mystery party company, Ghost Ship Murder Mysteries, which has been written up in publications such as Los Angeles Magazine, Real Simple, and Oprah Daily. Her play The Moss Maidens won Best Play and Best Ensemble at the 2023 SheNYC Summer Theater Festival and an Honorable Mention for the 2023 Parity Development Award, and she recently served as sensitivity consultant for The Great Gatsby: The Immersive Show. She was also invited to develop her musical The City of Ember, written with composer Stephanie Meyers, at the Tofte Lake Center’s Artist Retreat last summer. BA Wesleyan University, MFA NYU Tisch. Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab and TedxBroadway Young Professionals Cohort. Sdylanzwickel.com / @dylzwickel

 

 

Content warnings: Descriptions of physical and sexual violence. Descriptions of racism. 

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