sol 5: NOAH DIAZ

NOAH DIAZ
the playwright

Noah Diaz is an MFA candidate in Playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. His work has been produced and/or developed at Baltimore Center Stage, The Playwrights Realm, The Sol Project, Two River Theater, the Kennedy Center, Yale School of Drama, Yale Cabaret, Howlround Latinx Theater Commons, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, The Shelterbelt Theatre, 5th Wall Productions, Campfire Theatre Festival, and the Rose Theater, among others. Awards/Fellowships include: three Kennedy Center Playwriting Awards, the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center NPC Finalist, 50PP Best Unproduced Latin@ Plays, Blue Ink Playwriting Award Finalist, and the Woodward/Newman Playwriting Award Finalist. He is currently under commission from the La Jolla Playhouse and the Great Plains Theatre Conference.
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RICHARD & JANE & DICK & SALLY
​the play

Noah Diaz’s Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally sees the harsh, realistic evolution of characters who became part of America’s collective unconscious via a series of iconic 1950s children’s books by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp. In Diaz’s theatrical universe, Dick (now Richard) and Jane are grown up; Richard is recently widowed and hasn’t spoken to Jane in ages, while his children are retreating into the realm of fantasy. Richard’s son Dick sports his mother’s clothes in hopes of conjuring her, and his daughter Sally—who is deaf and feeling the crushing weight of her father’s desire for her to fit into the hearing world—converses with the family dog, Spot. In this dramatic comedy, Diaz makes a stunningly lyrical off-Broadway debut that exposes the gap between the idealized archetypes we internalize as children and the often painful real-life experiences that drive our emotional development as adults. ​
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BALTIMORE CENTER STAGE
the partner theatre

Founded in 1963 and designated the State Theater of Maryland in 1978, Baltimore Center Stage provides the highest quality theater and programming for all members of our communities, including youth and families, under the leadership of Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra and Executive Director Michael Ross. Baltimore Center Stage ignites conversations and imaginations by producing an eclectic season of professional productions across two mainstages and an intimate 99-seat theater, through engaging community programs, and with inspiring education programs. Everything we do at Center Stage is led by our core values—chief among them being Access For All. Our mission is heavily rooted in providing active and open accessibility for everyone, regardless of any and all barriers, to our Mainstage performances, education initiatives, and community programming.

TAYLOR REYNOLDS
​the director

Taylor Reynolds is a New York-based director and theatremaker from Chicago and one of the Producing Artistic Leaders of The Movement Theatre Company in Harlem. She has worked as a director, assistant, and collaborator with companies including Clubbed Thumb, Signature Theatre Company, Page 73, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, New Georges, The Japan Society, and Radical Evolution. Selected directing credits: Plano by Will Arbery (Drama Desk nomination for Best Direction), Songs About Trains (co-directed with Rebecca Martinez), ALLOND(R)A by Gina Femia, Think Before You Holla (creator/deviser), FOOD by Rhonda Marie Khan, Accidental Burlesque by Gina Femia (developed through the Audrey Residency at New Georges). She is a New Georges Affiliated Artist, member of NY Madness and the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, and 2017-2018 Clubbed Thumb Directing Fellow. BFA, Carnegie Mellon University. 
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highlights

Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally Montage
Baltimore Center Stage YouTube | February 28th, 2020

​'A Quick 5' with Noah Diaz, playwright 'Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally'
MD Theatre | January 25th, 2020

​'Richard & Jane & Dick & Sally' reveals the quotidian miseries of family at Baltimore's Center Stage
DC Theatre Arts | February 15th, 2020