Nazareth Hassan – författare

Two celebrated and award-winning plays by Nazareth HassanBowl EPFinalist - Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2026Winner - Obie Award for Best New Play 2026“The whole play paces with a concentrated intimacy … messy, poignant and memorable” - New York Times (Critic's Pick)Kelly K Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter need to find a name for their rap group. Through flirty interludes, cringy overshares, and practicing their ollies, they grow increasingly closer. Skating and Smoking. Skating and Drinking. Skating and exorcising a demon. With live skateboarding and original music, enter Bowl EP. Nazareth Hassan’s ‘disruptive and breathtaking’ play won the 2026 Obie Award for Best New Play. Hailed as a ‘Critic’s Pick’ by the New York Times, Bowl EP is a formally inventive experience at once intimate and epic.Practice"Shocking, darkly witty, and visually stunning" New York Times (Critic's Pick)It takes grit, determination, self-awareness, and years of training to be an artist. But what does it take to be a genius? A scathing, intricately observed take on power and surrender, Nazareth Hassan's play follows a company of dedicated actors, dancers, and performance artists as they lose themselves to the violent and beautiful will of a visionary.

A 2024 New York Times CRITIC'S PICK

Kelly K. Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter are in love. Kelly K. Klarkson and Quentavius da Quitter skate and smoke and taste one another’s fingers and snort molly and try to pick a name for their rap group. And then there’s their personal demons: Kelly exorcized hers a long time ago, but Quentavius’s is named Lemon Pepper Wings, and she-he-they is the patron demon of the intimate, and they-he-she created pheromones for their her his graduate thesis, and astrology and all the apps, and the concept of independence, and she-he-they force Kelly and Quentavius to face themselves, in an abandoned pool, alone, in the middle of the galaxy. With live skateboarding and original lyrics by Free Fool: Bowl EP.