birthday birthday birthday
By Johnny G. Lloyd
Directed By Will Steinberger
March 27 2025 - April 19 2025
Marissa and Clark are best friends who share a birthday. Marissa and Clark are best friends who share a birthday party. And Marissa and Clark plan on doing anything in their power to share that birthday party for the rest of their lives - and then some. A multi-decade romp through race, class, and time, birthday birthday birthday is about who we choose, how we change, and what it takes to remember it all.
BIOS
Johnny G. Lloyd is an “entertainingly cerebral” (New Yorker) Brooklyn-based writer and producer. Off Broadway: Patience (Second Stage Theatre). Off-Off Broadway: Or, An Astronaut Play (The Tank). Johnny was the winner of the 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (The Problem With Magic, Is:) and has a Drama Desk Award for his affiliation with Theater In Quarantine (created by Joshua William Gelb and KatieRose McLaughlin). He has been commissioned by Clubbed Thumb, Second Stage Theater, and Westport Country Playhouse. Johnny has been in residence at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Ars Nova, The Lark, Liberation Theatre Company, and more. He is the Director of Artistic Development at The Tank and co-founder of InVersion Theatre. MFA: Columbia University. jglloyd.com
Will Steinberger is a Drama League Award nominated director and producer. He has directed and developed new plays at New York Theatre Workshop, New York Stage and Film, Clubbed Thumb, New Dramatists, Hartford Stage, the Drama League, Berkshire Theatre Group, Powerhouse Theater, Valdez Theater Conference, The Brick, the Wilma, and InterAct. He recently directed Andrea Stolowitz’s The Berlin Diaries at 59E59 featuring David Greenspan, produced in association with The New Group.
Other productions include Han Van Sciver’s Happy Birthday, Han (JACK), Gina Femia’s meet you at the Galaxy Diner. (The Tank and New Light Theatre Project), Charles Gershman’s Oedipus 2.0.2.0 (All For One f/ Eddie Cooper; Drama League nom), and Johnny G. Lloyd’s Or, an Astronaut Play (The Tank and InVersion Theatre, of which he is proud co-founder) and birthday birthday birthday (Columbia University).
Will is a former artist in residence at New York Stage and Film and has been a guest speaker or artist at the Yale School of Drama, Brown University, Syracuse University, UT–Austin, Vassar College, Neumann University, and Hunter College. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Theatre Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Forward, WHYY, Philadelphia Weekly, and Philadelphia Magazine. Member, LCT Directors Lab. Finalist, National Directors Fellowship. WSteinberger.com.