Eugene Onegin

Obie Award-winning playwright Sarah Gancher’s work has been seen at London’s National Theatre, Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre, The Public Theatre, New York Theater Workshop, The Vineyard Theatre, Steppenwolf, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Geva Theatre, and Ars Nova, among others. A lifelong jazz violinist, she regularly performs bluegrass fiddle. Eugene Onegin is her first book/music/lyrics musical.
Recent work includes The Wind and The Rain (Vulture Best of 2024; dir. Jared Mezzocchi at Red Hook Waterfront Museum, En Garde Arts & Vineyard Theatre) and Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy (online production NY Times Top 10 Theater of 2020; 2024 in-person at Vineyard Theatre & Geva Theatre, in association with Dori Berinstein, dir. Darko Tresnjak. ) She was the book writer for two musicals with The Bengsons, Anne Kauffman, and Sonya Tayeh: Hundred Days and The Lucky Ones, and the collaborating playwright for The TEAM’s Mission Drift, composed by Heather Christian and directed by Rachel Chavkin (Top 50 Shows of the 20th Century, The Guardian.)

RACHEL CHAVKIN is a director, sometime writer and founding artistic director of Brooklyn-based experimental collective, the TEAM whose work has been seen all over NY, the U.S., and internationally, and whose consensus-driven writing process was the subject of a feature length documentary. She won the 2019 Tony Award for her work on Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown (Broadway, NYTW, National Theatre, London). She is a three-time Obie Winner, and received Tony and Lortel nominations, and a Drama Desk Award for Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway, Ars Nova, A.R.T.). Select projects: Carson Kreitzer’s and Matt Gould’s Lempicka (Broadway), the TEAM’s Mission Drift (National Theatre), Arthur Miller’s American Clock (Old Vic), the TEAM’s RoosevElvis (Royal Court), Larissa Fasthorse’s The Thanksgiving Play (2ST, 1st play by a known Native American woman on Broadway), Lilianna Padilla’s How to Defend Yourself — co-directed with Padilla and Steph Paul (NYTW), Marco Ramirez’s The Royale (LCT; Obie Award, Drama Desk and Lortel noms.), Bess Wohl’s Small Mouth Sounds (Ars Nova and national tour), and multiple collaborations with Taylor Mac, Heather Christian, the Bengsons, and Manchester-based writer/performer Chris Thorpe. Her first short film, Remind Me, was an official selection of the Venice and Beverly Hills Film Festivals. 2017 Smithsonian Award for Ingenuity.

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