Yellow Wallpaper 2.0 - 2020
by Jennifer Maisel
Directed by judy braha
Playing August 20th - september 6th, 2026
saint james place
ABOUT THE PLAY
This play takes us down the rabbit hole of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s profound short story The Yellow Wallpaper, written in 1892, but re-imagined here in the early days of the pandemic. An overwhelmed adjunct professor, newly a mother, struggles to make sense of their suddenly chaotic reality, her post- partem depression and the mysteries hidden inside their inherited "prewar-6” apartment on the Upper West Side. With humor, social critique and the quivering bones of a horror story, Jennifer Maisel’s wonderful play will sweep you down the rabbit hole with our heroine, T, and bring you face to face with her deep- 2020 dilemmas, passions and choices.
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Cast and creative team
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Jennifer Maisel
Jennifer Maisel’s (Playwright) plays include EIGHT NIGHTS, OUT OF ORBIT, THERE OR HERE, THE PERMUTATIONS, MATCH ,@thespeedofJake and THE LAST SEDER. Her work has been produced off-Broadway, nationally and internationally, and developed at the Asolo Theatre, the Perlberg Festival, the Sundance Theatre Lab and the Great Plains Theatre Conference and honored by the Kennedy Center, Ovation, Woodward/Newman, and PEN West Literary Awards. PROVENANCE won the 2025 Jewish Plays Project award and garnered Jennifer an invitation to the Ojai Playwrights Conference. One of seven playwrights commissioned by Center Theatre Group and Playwrights’ Arena to create The Hotel Play, Jennifer also writes for film and television; the screen film adaptation of her THE LAST SEDER is in preproduction. Jennifer was tapped for the Humanitas PlayLA workshop, where she wrote BETTER, and the Travis Bogard Residency at Eugene O’Neill’s Tao House, where she wrote YELLOW WALLPAPER 2.0-2020 with the support of a Lucille Lortel Alcove Commission. She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, the WGA, Playwrights Union, Writer’s Odyssey and Rogue Machine’s Playwrights Roundtable.
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Judy Braha
Judy Braha (Director) is Artistic Director of Great Barrington Public Theater in the beautiful Berkshires, dedicated to the development and production of new works for the theater. She has been a director, teacher and arts advocate for over four decades. Long-time Head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University College of Fine Arts, her credits include theaters, prisons and universities throughout New England. With Andre de Quadros, Judy proudly taught for the BU Prison Arts Initiative and Race Prison Justice Arts. Recent Directing: Madame Mozart, the Lacrimosa, Things I Know To Be True, Mr.Fullerton, Dog People (GBPT), Representation and How To Get It (touring to a historic venue near you), The Exonerated, Our Class, Shakespeare In Love (BU/SOT), Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets, To Kill A Mockingbird (Gloucester Stage), Golda’s Balcony (New Rep), Flight of the Monarch (Shakespeare+Co.). https://judybraha.squarespace.com/