Seven award-winning plays by rising stars of contemporary theater herald a profound shift in what it means to be an American, an immigrant, and an artist on today’s stage.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury | Public Obscenities, shortlisted for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize
Hansol Jung, 2018 Whiting Award–winner | Wolf Play
Martyna Majok, 2018 Pulitzer Prize–winner | Sanctuary City
Mona Mansour, 2020 Kesselring Prize–winner | The Hour of Feeling
Charlie Oh | Coleman ’72, 2021 Paul Stephen Lim Award–winner
Mfoniso Udofia, 2021 Horton Foote Award–winner | Sojourners
Jesús I. Valles, 2023 Yale Drama Series Prize–winner | a river, its mouths
This groundbreaking collection of works by first- and second-generation immigrants unites seven exhilarating new voices of Lebanese, Nigerian, Korean, Bengali, Polish, and Mexican descent. Echoing beyond the stage, their stories draw on common experiences of displacement, alienation, and the sense of living in suspension; sometimes torn between two worlds, sometimes plummeting into the spaces between them. Amid tangled relationships, vengeful landscapes, and buried family mysteries, something universal flickers; the search for safety and the promise of home. Both haunting and galvanizing, What This Place Makes Me will be a vital touchstone for years to come.
Table of Content
- Introduction – Luis Valdez
- Editor’s Note – Isaiah Stavchansky
- Production History
About the author
Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant, educator, writer-performer from Cd. Juarez/El Paso. Valles is the winner of the 2023 Yale Drama Series, selected by Jeremy O. Harris (Bathhouse.pptx), the winner of the 2022 Kernodle Playwriting Prize (a river, its mouths), and the 2022 Emerging Theatre Professional, selected by the National Theatre Conference. As a playwright, Valles received support from The Bushwick Starr, Clubbed Thumb, The Flea, The Kennedy Center, The Lortel, Manhattan Theatre Club, New York Theatre Workshop, OUTsider Festival, The Playwrights’ Center, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Teatro Vivo, and The VORTEX. As a poet, Valles received fellowships from Canto Mundo, Community of Writers, Idyllwild Arts, Lambda Literary, Tin House, and Undocupoets. Valles is a Core Apprentice of the Playwrights’ Center and received their MFA in writing for performance from Brown University.
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