PERFORMANCE DATES
Begins February 2027
WHERE
The Irene Diamond Stage
The Pershing Square Signature Center
BEGINS FEBRUARY 2027
THE PERSHING SQUARE SIGNATURE CENTER / OFF-BROADWAY
WORK OF DEVOTION
BY
MIRANDA ROSE HALL
DIRECTED BY
SHAYOK MISHA CHOWDHURY
Welcome to Work of Devotion, a raucous, profound, and decidedly contemporary story about a group of 8th century nuns in rural Italy desperate to make meaning out of their constrained lives. When their leader dies in a freak accident (don’t ask), the women ask themselves: How do we actually want to live? Written by Miranda Rose Hall, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this is a dazzlingly original world premiere play about devoting yourself to beauty, wonder, and the glorious absurdity of being alive.
Second Stage Theater’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
The Season is supported by a grant from the Howard Gilman Foundation.
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*Across the Boards — Join members of the creative team for a discussion following the performance.
(i) Insider's Night — An exclusive event for 2ST Subscribers. Join us one hour before for wine, hors d’oeuvres, and intimate discussion with one of the show’s designers.
(s) Student Matinee
OC Open Captioned Performance — Text is displayed at the side of the stage in real time, including dialogue and sound effects from the production.
AD Audio Described Performance — Using special audio equipment, commentary and narration is provided during the performance, guiding the listener through the show with descriptions of scenes, costumes, etc. in between dialogue or songs.
BY MIRANDA ROSE HALL
Miranda Rose Hall is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn, NY. Her plays include A Play for the Living in a Time of Extinction (finalist for the 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize), The Sandwich Ministry, Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (finalist for the 2019 Lambda Literary Award in Drama), To Tell a Story About the Earth, The Kind Ones, and Menstruation: A Period Piece. She has written for television on Alaska Daily (ABC), American Rust (Amazon Prime), and Discretion (upcoming Paramount+). Miranda’s work has premiered at LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater, the Barbican in London, Baltimore Center Stage, the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, and in national theaters across Europe. She has written commissioned works for Yale Repertory Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Concord Theatricals, and LCT3/Lincoln Center Theater as a Berwin Lee Brown Playwright. In 2020, she was honored with a Steinberg Distinguished Playwright Award. Miranda is a founding member of LubDub Theatre Co, based in New York. She has taught at Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, and Macalester College. She graduated with her BA from Georgetown University and her MFA from the Yale School of Drama.