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Cost of Living

TCG Edition

Martyna Majok

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English
Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
29 January 2019
Winner, Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2018

Other awards for Cost of Living: Edgerton New Play Prize (2016), Jean Kennedy Smith Prize-The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (2016), Women's Invitational-Ashland New Plays Festival

2016 NY Times Critics' Pick

Cost of Living received its New York premiere at Manhattan Theatre Club in June 2017, following a world premiere at Williamstown Theatre Festival.

Majok, born in Poland before immigrating to the United States at a young age, frequently gives voices to the voiceless and explores underrepresented communities in her writing.

Majok has received many other honors for her writing, including:

The Dramatists Guild Lanford Wilson Award, The Lilly Awards' Stacey Mindich Prize, The Greenfield Prize (first female recipient in drama), Helen Merrill Emerging Playwright Award, Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding Original New Play or Musical at The Helen Hayes Awards, Marin Theatre's David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Prize, New York Theatre Workshop's 2050 Fellowship, Aurora Theatre's Global Age Project Prize, National New Play Network's Smith Prize for Political Playwriting, Jane Chambers Student Feminist Playwriting Prize, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for the American Dream.

Majok is an alumna of EST's Youngblood and Women's Project Lab.

She has taught playwriting at Williams College, Wesleyan University, SUNY Purchase, Primary Stages ESPA, NJRep, and as an assistant to Paula Vogel at Yale.

She is a 2018-2019 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University.
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Imprint:   Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 136mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   227g
ISBN:   9781559365970
ISBN 10:   1559365978
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Martyna Majok's other plays include Ironbound, Queens and Sanctuary City. She is the recipient of a Lucille Lortel Award, Lilly Award, Helen Hayes Award, Lanford Wilson Prize, Greenfield Prize, Jean Kennedy Smith Award, two Jane Chambers Awards, NYTW's 2050 Fellowship, NNPN Smith Prize forPolitical Playwriting, and The Merage Foundation Fellowship for The American Dream. Majok was the20152016 PoNY Fellow at the Lark Play Development Center and is a 20182019 Hodder Fellow atPrinceton University.

Reviews for Cost of Living (TCG Edition)

The characters, dialogue and situations resonate with emotional truth about loneliness, financial desperation and the vulnerability of disabled people forced to rely on others to assist them with basic human needs. --Hollywood Reporter By toppling old prejudices, Majok forces us to revisit our easy assumptions about people who really don't want to be called differently abled and caregivers who could use a little love themselves. --Variety An honest, original work that invites audiences to examine diverse perceptions of privilege and human connection through two pairs of mismatched individuals: a former trucker and his recently paralyzed ex-wife, and an arrogant young man with cerebral palsy and his new caregiver. --Pulitzer Prize committee Cost of Living is perfection. It reawakens my belief in the poetry of theater and highlights its purpose as the critical eye on our human existence... Ms. Majok brilliantly infuses her characters and dialogue with biting humor. --New York Theatre Guide


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