May Treuhaft-Ali
Biography
May Treuhaft-Ali is a playwright, director, and dramaturg. She is the 22-23 Van Lier New Voices Fellow at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. She is a member of Ars Nova's Play Group and the Middle Eastern American Writers Lab, and an alumna of Clubbed Thumb’s Early-Career Writers’ Group and The Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship. She has received commissions from Barrington Stage Company, South Coast Repertory, and Theater Masters. She recently served as Associate Director on the world premiere of SHHHH by Clare Barron at Atlantic Theater Company, and her play ABCD had its world premiere at Barrington Stage Company in July. May is the Literary and Community Engagement Assistant at Playwrights Horizons.
Updated on 10/27/2022
Realm Developed Work
ABCD
Writing Fellowship, 2020-21
In an underserved public school on the verge of shutdown, a teacher erases wrong answers from his students’ exams and fills in correct ones, hoping higher scores will keep the school open. In an elite magnet school nearby, a student texts 140 classmates the answers for a physics test. ABCD weaves these stories together to interrogate how our public school system measures success. When the joys and challenges of learning are reduced to a multiple-choice test, who runs out of options? And when you’re in a system that was never built to benefit you, are you justified in breaking its rules?
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