Set in both 1903 and the present in the Owens Valley in the Eastern Sierra, a scientist confronts the questions: What is actually green? And how do we advance the rights of one group – and not harm another?
Paula Cizmar is an award-winning playwright/librettist whose plays include Antigone X (Cal Rep) and The Vig (Inglewood-90303), an audio play currently airing on season two of Antaeus Theatre Company’s Zip Code Plays. She is part of Climate Change Theatre Action 2021 with her short play The Pageant, and she created the multimedia environmental justice documentary project Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles, which is entering phase two of development and production. Paula is one of the writers of the site-specific The Hotel Play (Playwrights Arena) and Seven (LA Theatre Works, and 30+ productions in 22 languages). She wrote the libretto for Invisible (LA Opera’s Eurydice Found festival, West Edge Opera’s Snapshot festival), and Firecrackers (commissioned by White Snake Opera), music composed by Guang Yang. Cizmar and Yang also won the Pittsburgh Festival Opera Music That Matters competition for Minerva’s Owl. Paula is one of five inaugural members of Boston Court Playwrights. paulacizmar.com
