Each month on The Subtext, Brian speaks with a playwright about life, writing, and whatever itches we are scratching.

This month, Brian talks to Andrea Stolowitz, a playwright and librettist with dual U.S./German citizenship (the latter reclaimed from her Jewish ancestry), who talks about her complex relationship with home: She splits her time among New York, Portland, Berlin, and Ireland. She studied Russian literature in Moscow, and is currently working on a play called Andrea Stolowitz Gets Yelled at by Jews in Lobbies, inspired by her experiences as an outsider and Jewish theatremaker in Cork, Ireland. Her plays include Knowing Cairo, The Berlin Diaries, and Numbered Be Our Days.

Stolowitz is a three-time winner of the Oregon Book Award in drama, and her plays have been developed and presented at such theatres as Long Wharf, the Old Globe, the Cherry Lane, and New York Stage and Film. Her most recent work, Elegy Play, was a commission from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in collaboration with New Dramatists. Recent Unsettling Events is a commission from Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland.

This episode can also be found here, and is also available on iTunes and Spotify.