about
photo by Peter Bellamy︎ reidtangreid@gmail.com
︎ New Play Exchange
︎they/he
︎Brooklyn, NY
︎Singapore
I write plays & make weird internet experiments. (I also do editorial work + make personal websites!)
I’m interested in experiments of form, small art, & propagandizing for a world that could be, rather than the terrible world that is.
Right now, I’m working on BOIDS 🐦, a play about a men’s group, how to become a “proper man” & gender as surveillance. I’m also co-writing a play called DEBT with my friend Adrian Einspanier, a very loose adaptation of David Graeber’s book of the same name.
My past work includes Isabel (NAATCO),
WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), FUTURE WIFE (Theatertreffen Stückemarkt) & Party in A Google Sheet (New Georges).
I’m under commission with Breaking the Binary Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop, and a past recipient of the Sundance Institute’s Interdisciplinary Program Grant.
Currently, I’m a member of Ars Nova’s Play Group & an alum of the New Georges Jam, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers' Group, and NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship.
I’m interested in experiments of form, small art, & propagandizing for a world that could be, rather than the terrible world that is.
Right now, I’m working on BOIDS 🐦, a play about a men’s group, how to become a “proper man” & gender as surveillance. I’m also co-writing a play called DEBT with my friend Adrian Einspanier, a very loose adaptation of David Graeber’s book of the same name.
My past work includes Isabel (NAATCO),
WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY (Clubbed Thumb Summerworks), FUTURE WIFE (Theatertreffen Stückemarkt) & Party in A Google Sheet (New Georges).
I’m under commission with Breaking the Binary Theatre & New York Theatre Workshop, and a past recipient of the Sundance Institute’s Interdisciplinary Program Grant.
Currently, I’m a member of Ars Nova’s Play Group & an alum of the New Georges Jam, Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers' Group, and NYTW’s 2050 Fellowship.
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UPCOMING + NOW!
🐐 FUTURE WIFE was selected for an Honorable Mention by the Relentless Award committee! UPCOMING + NOW!
🏳️⚧️ Adrian Einspanier & I will be Artists in Residence at New York Stage and Film, with Breaking the Binary Theatre, in July 2024!
💸 DEBT (part 1), co-written with Adrian Einspanier, is being presented as part of Pride Plays at Rattlestick Theater on July 24! Directed by Mei Ann Teo and featuring Becca Blackwell, Roberta Colindrez & Sagan Chen.
🎒 Isabel will be up at Abrons Arts Center in June and July, produced by NAATCO!
🥊 “Stretching Out”, a short play written for Scritches, was published in the Brooklyn Rail’s May issue!
(+ PAST!)
2023
🐦 Excited to be the first recipient of the Breaking the Binary commission!
🌳 I’m one of ten artists selected for the 2023/4 Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab!
👍 WORK HARD HAVE FUN MAKE HISTORY will be part of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks, running May 18-30!
✨ Performing a short excerpt of DEBT at Chaotic Good no. 3 on Mar 9, 7.30pm @ St. Lydia’s in Gowanus!
🌾 A short play I wrote will be featured in a one-night event for the film WOMEN TALKING! (🎧 now available on Audible)
💫 I’m one of six new members of Ars Nova’s 2023-25 Play Group!
🐐 FUTURE WIFE will be presented at the Goethe-Institut Beijing in February 2023!
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