about
photo by Peter Bellamy︎ reidtangreid@gmail.com
︎ New Play Exchange
︎they/he
︎Brooklyn, NY
︎Singapore
I write plays & poetry and 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”, and 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”, and 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 absolute icons 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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